Sims On So-Called Great Escape

Club Were Cool With Trio’s Early Return

A youthful escapade that Bobby Mason describes as being ‘like the Great Escape’ is remembered in less dramatic terms by one of his co-accused, Nigel Sims. Did three young Wolverhampton Wanderers players really have the bottle to bail out of a month’s recuperation in Ireland and flee back early to the Midlands without permission?