REDDITCH United have had a move to play at Hereford United's home blocked by the FA.

This week's Hereford Times has reported that at a Herefordshire Council scrutiny meeting on Wednesday heard the Southern Premier Division side's bid to move to Edgar Street was rejected by the sport's governing body.

Chairman Chris Swan could not comment on the situation.

Former Hereford United owner David Keyte is also at the meeting and said he had very little option but to sell the football club to Essex businessman Tommy Agombar.

Mr Keyte told councillors, who are meeting to review the leases on the former club’s Edgar Street ground, that "nobody came forward to help save one of the few assets we have got in Hereford city which, in my view, is Hereford United Football Club”.

"It is a tragedy it (the club) has now gone and I have to say pushed to the edge by local people with their own agendas," added Mr Keyte.

Hereford United FC were wound up before Christmas when the group who took control from Mr Keyte failed to pay debts totalling more than £1million to a number of creditors, which included HMRC.

Mr Keyte also offered his view as to why – in his view – Herefordshire has so little success when it comes to sport.

“I was born and bred in Hereford and I played for Hereford at county level at football, cricket and rugby,” he added.

“Hereford is in the backwaters in sport.

“And, in my view, it is unable to reach a national level because of the nature of the ageing population and the lack of youngsters coming through,” he said."