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Hereford Unied fans will step up their 'We want our club back campaign' tonight - at a game involving their local neighbours Kidderminster Harriers.

The Bulls are one of football's most iconic clubs, known for their FA Cup giantkilling exploits. Newcastle are their most famous victims.

Now supporters of the cash-strapped Bulls have been given permission to make a protest about the way their club is being run before Kidderminster's televised Conference clash with Welling.

In an extraordinary show of solidarity, up to 500 Hereford fans will be welcomed into Aggborough to give their campaign a wider audience after Harriers answered an appeal for help.

Supporters are angered at the way the club is being run by Alpha Choice Finance, a company that is described as a "purchaser of distressed debts."

ACF took over at Edgar Street in August when former owner Tommy Agombar failed the FA's fit and proper person's test.

But fans feel that they have been kept in the dark over their plans.

And, with a winding up petition against Hereford set to be heard in the High Court on October 20, there is a real fear that one of the biggest giantkillers in FA Cup history could go to the wall.

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Only a public appeal for money prevented a similar winding-up order succeeding last season.

The Hereford United Supporters' Trust was one of three prospective buyers for the club - but former chairman David Keyte decided to sell to Agombar.

Agombar purchased Hereford at the end of May for the princely sum of £2 - just a month after a late winner by Michael Rankine at Aldershot brought the curtain down on a season of turmoil on and off the pitch by securing the Bulls' Conference status on goal difference.

However, despite their final-day great escape, one of Agombar's first acts as owner was to resign the club from the Conference and take them down two divisions to the Southern League, where they now lie in 16th place.

When the FA ruled that Agombar did not meet the criteria laid down for owners and directors of football clubs, it was announced that his shareholding had been transferred to ACF.

But many fans fear that Agombar still has a huge influence at the club.

And they are worried that a plan is in place to sell Hereford's historic Edgar Street stadium, which is situated on prime land in the centre of the cathedral city.

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Supporters travelling to Aggborough tonight plan to applaud in the 24th minute, in recognition of the fact that Hereford was formed in 1924.

Then, in the 39th minute, they will turn their backs on the game to symbolise Agombar's purchase of Hereford United Football Club (1939) Limited.

Martin Watson, the vice-chairman of HUST, said: "The FA appear unwilling to act and the Southern League do not seem to care.

"We have to start pushing the issue. The situation is intolerable."

Hereford famously knocked first division Newcastle out of the FA Cup in 1972 when they were a non-League club.

Their current season of woe has seen them already eliminated from the same competition by Ellistown and Ibstock of the East Midlands County League.

Crowds have fallen to under 350 and the club have no kit sponsor, no club sponsor and don't even use advertising hoardings on match days.