Sad News of Lofty
A Personal Tribute from John Richards
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We are dedicated to promoting Wolverhampton Wanderers nostalgia and reminiscences.
Our business is tracking down former Wolves players, legends and otherwise, and talking through both their Molineux careers and what they have done in the years since. It is the ultimate in Where Are They Now pursuits.
We trust you will become at least a little misty-eyed as a result of our endeavours.
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The Hunt Is On – Any Leeds?
Rare Photo And An Elland Road Victory
It’s not often that we publish picture-led stories on this site. Then again, it’s not often that we stumble across a photo from a Wolves away game in the old Central League. We believe we know which particular fixture this Yorkshire Evening Post image is from and will briefly prolong the guessing game while our readers might try to work it out for themselves.
Phil Parkes: 1947 – 2026
Loved And Local – Lofty Was One Of A Kind
Where do you begin to sum up the legend that was, is and always will be Phil Parkes? Homing in on the 382 matches that made up his Wolves first-team career is to tell only some of the story, an outstanding part though it may be.
Lofty Loses His Last Battle
A Supporter Base In Mourning At News Of Big Phil
Phil Parkes, one of the Wolves family’s favourite sons, died in New Cross Hospital this morning.
The 79-year-old, already unable to walk after breaking his back in the spring of last year, recently contracted pneumonia.
His condition was subsequently described as a chest infection but he failed to recover.
Knowing where to start paying tribute to this giant of a man and character is difficult but we will try to adequately do so in the next few days and again around the time of his funeral.
Cast List of Players
An Impressive Roll Call
Welcome to one of the newer areas of the Wolves Heroes website.
Here, we not only list every player who has appeared in a League match for the club but also the order in which they did so.
For example, this is the place to learn that a few well-known and not-so-well-known men, such as Maurice Daly and Brian Caswell, have special niches in Wolves history that they presumably knew nothing about.
In 1975, Daly became the 600th man to be given a League debut by the club while the on-loan Caswell clocked in as the 700th more than a decade later.
Please take a slow trawl through to see the entire order but bear in mind that, if you are revisiting this area, we may have made alterations since you last looked owing to a recount and the eagle eye of our checkers, Donald Noble in Coventry and more recently southern-based Scott Pritchard, whose www.wolvescompletehistory.co.uk website is well worth a visit…
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Player Q&A
Lofty……..loyal, local and loved
Nostalgic Thoughts Of Top-Guy Keeper
Meeting up with Phil Parkes is always a pleasure. His views never fail to be forthright, heartfelt and entertaining. John Richards was not disappointed when he posed the questions put forward by our readers…..
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