WOULD someone please put Hereford United out of their misery. Then we can all move on.

The long-running saga of the Edgar Street club's winding-up order is getting increasingly tiresome and frustrating.

Monday saw United get a seventh adjournment of the petition in the Royal Courts of Justice with an outcome seemingly nowhere near.

As soon as one creditor is satisfied - with former manager Martin Foyle having now been paid - another one takes up the fight.

Currently, HM Revenues and Customs and Herefordshire Council are the headline names on the order but there are others who are still out of pocket following their treatment at the hands of the club.

That this sorry situation has been allowed to drag on as long as it has is nothing short of a scandal.

How a business can be deemed fit for purpose with a track record of failing to pay people or making good on promises like Hereford's beggars belief.

If this wasn't a football club, they would have been wound-up long ago. They, or any other club for that matter, should not be made a special case.

Being of community benefit should not be an argument here either, especially when the Bulls are patently not providing a benefit to the community, with attendances having dropped to under 300.

On this occasion, a £1.5million investment has miraculously materialised at the 11th hour to bail them out.

Yet, nobody knows where this money has come from. Presumably, the presiding judge has seen proof of funds. If not, why has the plug not been pulled?

The trouble is, I get the impression this is going to drag on much longer.

Whoever is calling the shots at Hereford seems to be the master of getting the adjournments they plainly want.

If they didn't, they would have walked away by now.