Way Back When
VIPs 3 Rest of the World 1
It wouldn’t pass for news in today’s more sensationalised times but the Daily Express devoted 14 paragraphs of precious space 55 years ago to a game that had nothing to do with the main purpose of Wolves’ adventure behind the Iron Curtain – the games against Spartak and Moscow Dynamo.
In between the two fixtures on the club’s pioneering adventure behind the Iron Curtain, several of the dignitaries in the travelling party took part in a leisurely kickabout in a park, not knowing it was going to be committed to print back home.