The Fondest Of Farewells
Goodbye Waggy – Hero To Thousands
At Derek Dougan’s funeral six and a bit years ago, it wasn’t the proceedings inside St Peter’s Collegiate Church that most put a lump in my throat. Whatever the tributes paid by Mike Bailey, Martin O’Neill, Terry Conroy and the like, the greatest poignancy came from the spontaneous chanting of fans who followed the service by tanoy as they stood in the rain. Today, when the Wolverhampton Wanderers family reassembled at the same venue to pay their final respects to David Wagstaffe, it was probably the exit music, Daydream Believer, that most hit the spot.