Breaking New Ground

We’re Hitting The Heights – Many Thanks!

We at Wolves Heroes have never been slaves to the many figures that are available in the IT world to check on ‘traffic’ through and around websites. For those who wish to monitor how well seen their words and photos are, information is at hand about where users are logging in from, how many pages they click on during one stay, how long they remain on for and numerous other indicators.

Green Flag For Green Army

Stowell Chipper On Life By The Storm-Lashed Hoe

“See you in 20 minutes, I’m just jumping in the shower.” Eighteen minutes later, Mike Stowell is texting again, telling me he is all done and standing by my car outside Home Park. Plymouth Argyle’s largely modern stadium is lit up by weak winter sunshine and he has caught me on the hop having a quick tour of its outside, Jack Leslie statue included.

Revisiting The Darkest Of Times

A Month From Hell – Or Just The 1984 Normal?

“It’s worse than when the Bhattis were here” was a lament voiced once or twice when Wolves were marooned on two points in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Most will have dismissed the remarks as hysterical over-reaction born out of exasperation and repeated disappointment but just in case anyone began to take them as something approaching fair assessment, we decided to look back at a few weeks of autumn, 1984.

A Momentous Day Out At City

Teenage Talent Took Maine Road To Stardom

Manchester City away is where it all started for the young Peter Broadbent. Not as a Wolves player but as a 17-year-old with Brentford. The various programme pages that illuminate this article show the prodigy’s name in the visitors’ line-up and in the pen pictures, the latter of which give a name-check to George Poyser, a man connected at different times to The Bees, to Molineux and to Dover, the Kent-born player’s first club.

Overflowing With Fond Memories

Funeral Day – Standing room Only!

One of the more palatable features of funerals is that we often learn much of interest about the individual that we didn’t previously know. But that, in turn, brings the extra sadness of realising there is a lot more we would like to have asked or said before it was too late.

Grimsby v Wolves: So Many Angles

Stirring Up A Netful Of Mariners Memories

It’s well over 20 years since Wolves played a game at Grimsby but the FA Cup pairing that sends them to the Humberside coast in a month’s time will still hold extensive memories for many of those in attendance. After all, a good number of travelling fans will recall the club having played at Blundell Park in no fewer than four different first-team competitions.

Running It By Special Branch

Heartening Uplift From ‘Hell On Earth’

Anyone remember Michael Branch being so exhausted at the end of a loan appearance for Wolves that he had to be helped off the pitch at Blackburn? Well, with his peak athletic years surely far behind him, he is burning up the miles, more than 25 seasons on, like never before.

First Impressions

Happy Memories Of Ground-Breaking Trips

Wolves’ draw at Everton on Wednesday continued the fine record they have developed in recent years on their first visits to new (rebuilt) venues. With victories at West Ham, Tottenham and Brentford in the non-too-distant past, they have now won or drawn on four successive maiden trips, all in the Premier League.

Terry Wharton: 1942 – 2026

Golden Memories Of Gem We Have Lost

With the death of Terry Wharton, we have lost much more than just one of the best uncapped wingers Wolves have ever had. He was also a fine club cricketer, terrific company, loved his golf and could tell a story with the best of them. He had plenty of material to choose from, too, having been part of Wolves’ triumphant criss-crossing of America in the summer of 1967, played nearly 250 games in gold and black and had a spell in South Africa as well as domestic ones with Bolton, Crystal Palace and Walsall.

RIP Terry Wharton

Sad News Announced On Match-Day

Everyone at Wolves Heroes has been greatly saddened to hear about the passing-away of Terry Wharton. The 83-year-old has died in New Cross Hospital following a short illness and will be mourned by all who knew him.