Peas In A Podcast

Wembley Scorers’ New Link To Supporters

For years, they were next to each other on the team sheet wearing the shirts numbered 10 and 11. Now good mates Andy Mutch and Robbie Dennison are side by side at the microphone, sharing their thoughts from Wolves’ revivalist years for the benefit of those among us still soaking up all the memories like sponges.

Wolves At Home Amid Stadium-Hopping

Reflecting On Rich Returns Against Long-Time Bogey Side

‘Oh no, not Tottenham!’ was a familiar Molineux lament both in the title-chasing days as the 1950s became the 1960s and again on the cup trail at the start of the 1970s and 1980s. Wolves suffered more heartbreak against Spurs than at the hands of any other team across those eras as Wembley dreams disappeared and glimpses of European glory gave way to the shattering realisation of what might have been.

Score(r)s On The Doors

Star Names Go Up In Wath Lights

Two men discovered by legendary scout Mark Crook have been honoured at the old base of his operation. The names of Ron Flowers and Bob Hatton now adorn the dressing rooms at Brampton United FC, the current residents of Cortonwood Miners’ Welfare, where Crook’s Wath Wanderers/Wolves Juniors team played.

A Heavyweight Addition

Molineux Set For Northants Knees-Up

It is, by any stretch of the imagination, a remarkable story; the rise of a Wolves supporters’ club launched by three men in a pub in a market town 60 miles from Molineux. The expanded group have been making a name for themselves ever since – an extremely long one, as it happens, although the Northamptonshire-based Daventry Dun Cow Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club Supporters Club are often known instead as DDCWWFCSC.

Wow…Where Did Those Decades Go?

New Kid On The Block Now A Dug-Out Veteran

First a nasty jolt about how quickly time flies by. Jamie Smith, the galloping teenage right-back Graham Taylor introduced to first-team football out of the blue, is 51 tomorrow. And another surprise while we’re at it: He is not known as ‘Jinky’ in the dressing room he now inhabits.

A Breakthrough Over Bryn

Medal Hopes For Family Of Pre-War Star

Following our success in helping gain a First Division title winners’ medal for Ron Stockin comes a new lead in the pursuit to see another former Wolves player decorated. Four years on from when the forward was rewarded for the part he played in bringing the League Championship to Molineux in 1954, we have been contacted out of the blue by relatives of Bryn Jones.

Another Leap Of Faith

Geoff At Home ‘In The Gods’ And In The Harness

First John Richards and now Geoff Palmer. Who’s next to take the plunge? Not into one of the dressing-room ice baths, nor even to have the chilly contents of one of those covid-period buckets emptied over them.

Welcome To The ‘Rookies’

New Blood On Show In Another Bumper Field

It had to happen some day. In fact it needs to happen as a process of natural evolution. Hand in hand with the sad absence of some old favourites from the Wolves Former Players golf day at Oxley Park was the sight of new faces at a course barely a mile from Molineux.

It’s War-d In The Desert!

New Opportunity Beckons For Former Wolves Veteran

Stephen Ward has embarked on a new posting in the game in Dubai, with Terry Connor following him out of Solihull Moors this week. The former Wolves utility man has announced his arrival in the Middle East several weeks on from saying his exit at the National League club was based on a desire to achieve a better work-family balance.

Dear Diary Entry 167

A Cup Night Catch-Up With Keith

Tuesday, August 12: Had a brief pre-match meet-up with Keith Downing at tonight’s Albion v Derby Carabao Cup tie. He was by no means the only Wolves connection either, with Dion Sanderson, Andreas Weimann and the newly-signed Danny Batth in the Rams ranks and Jed Wallace going on as one of the Baggies’ substitutes.