Hereford FC secure back-to-back promotions with Southern South & West title

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HEREFORD FC boss Peter Beadle was full of praise for his side after they completed the “huge, huge achievement” of back-to-back promotions.

The Bulls, born from the ashes of Hereford United, won the Midland League Premier last season in their debut campaign and they were celebrating more glory on Saturday.

The 4-0 victory at fellow Phoenix club Salisbury, along with defeats for Taunton and Tiverton, meant the Bulls were crowned Southern League Division One South & West champions with six games remaining.

Beadle’s side have lost just one of their 36 league games this season, scoring 94 goals along the way as the club claimed their second successive promotion.

Hereford will take their place in the Southern Premier next term, the same level former club United were playing at when they were wound up in December 2014.

“Two promotions back to back is a great achievement for the football club, not only for the players and ourselves,” Beadle told Keith Hall.

“We do get the best of everybody every single week so when we’ve won something like this I know that we’ve earnt it because we do get the best of everybody every single week no matter home or away.

“Two promotions back to back and no disrespect to the Midland League, it was a real tough league for lots of different reasons. There were three or four really good sides in there and this year we’ve come up another division so we’ve got more good teams in this league and again they’ve all raised their game when they’ve played us or we’ve gone to them, their big day if you like, and we don’t disrespect that, we’ve been very respectful to everybody we’ve played.

“So it is a huge, huge achievement and one that I’m extremely proud of and the players will be extremely proud of when it finally sinks in I think next week.”