Move Over, Budgie!

How Flowers Sprang Up Gloriously – Twice

From their Wolves days together, John Burridge knew through painful experience that Tim Flowers posed a huge threat to his first-team prospects. The duo’s subsequent presence side by side at Southampton merely underlined the fact. The young pretender’s rich potential had played its part in the senior campaigner’s departure from Molineux in 1984 and was a strong contributory factor behind both his and Peter Shilton’s farewell to The Dell in the following years.