I suppose this one was never really in doubt, after all when you think of communities in odd places football fans tend to spring to mind. With respect to those who populate the terraces at Aggborough and St. George’s lane; Hereford United’s Edgar Street was the obvious choice.

It was not only the club’s history that attracted me, the ground itself and the fan’s relationship with it, was a documentary waiting to happen. Hereford United came to the nations consciousness in 1972 when Ronnie Radford left Newcastle’s players stranded in the mud to score, quite probably, the most famous F.A. Cup giant killing goal of all time.

Ronnie Radford shirt and number

We managed to scour the BBC archives to find the original BBC commentary (the one that kick started John Motson’s career). At the end a breathless Motty describes "the young boys coming on the pitch, say it all." We managed to track down some of those, now, not so young boys.

Along with this legendary football game I also included archive of the club’s darkest hour. In 1997 Brighton drew with Hereford on the last day of the season, which meant the club dropped out of the league. To say the fans I met are still scarred by that day is an understatement.

I wanted to contrast the fan’s passionate relationship with the Meadow End terrace with the down to earth even cynical view of the grounds man. Colin had worked at Edgar street for years - much of it single-handedly. He wanted the club to move to new premises which he felt would be safer, and in his words "the club was just throwing good money after bad."

However the group of fan’s I spoke to all wanted to stay. The club’s history combined with what they felt about the individual places in which they always stand means more to them than almost anything else.

At the outset I thought the recording of this episode would be fairly straight forward ( that obviously put a curse on the whole proceedings)

A whole recording day was scrapped before Christmas because of ill-health (mine) and again in the New Year for the same reason (someone else’s.) When we did eventually raise a microphone in anger; over a period of half an hour the weather alternated between bright sunshine to torrential rain to blizzards. Mixing the interviews to make them sound seamless took more time than the rest of the programme put together.

Still not daunted I drove down to the ground one last time to get the crowd atmosphere for the game against top of the table Dagenham and Redbridge. I was five minutes away when I learnt that the game had been called off as high winds had blown the roof off the Meadow End!

Feeling that the radio gods were not favouring this particular venture I pressed on regardless and convinced a group of disgruntled Hereford fans to stand on the empty terraces and go through emotions they experience during a normal ninety minutes.

All in all sick as the proverbial caged bird.

You can contact the series producer Howard Belgard by e-mailing howard.belgard@bbc.co.uk