On Saturday evening at the Green Dragon Hotel, a handsome Georgian building little more than a goal-kick from Hereford’s mighty cathedral, 80 people will gather for a dinner to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest days in the city’s long history.
It will be exactly half a century since — with less than 10 minutes to go in an FA Cup third-round replay against First Division Newcastle United — a 28-year-old joiner from a Yorkshire pit village joined the footballing immortals with a 35-yard piledriver that was anointed Goal of the Season.