Gould Award!
Choked Bobby Says Thanks For Honour
Bobby Gould rounded off an emotional return to his home city of Coventry by collecting a lifetime achievement award in front of an appreciative audience. The former striker had two successful spells at Wolves in the 1970s but was back on even more familiar territory to be honoured at the Coventry and North Warwickshire Sports Awards night at the Sky Blues’ Ricoh Arena.
Buckley ‘A Man With The Midas Touch’
Genial Figure Who Prepared Wolves For Greatness
It has often been lamented by veteran Wolves supporters that Stan Cullis was denied the full extent of the praise he deserved for winning three League titles and two FA Cups at Molineux. Here, though, we can present evidence that one of his predecessors, Major Frank Buckley, was very much lauded – in an obscure and long-forgotten publication at least.
Candid And Emotional
Dave Retraces His Unhappy Wolves Steps In The Best Of Causes
Charity fund-raising dinner in his honour or not, Dave Thomas was piercingly honest. “I hated my time at Wolves,” he said. “It was a horrible period for me.” It wasn’t the usual opening gambit from a VIP guest at a function through which giant waves of gold and black nostalgia washed, even if this gathering was at the lovely Red Lion Hotel at Bobbington, half an hour from Molineux.
The Star And The Wolves – An Enduring ‘Marriage’
In-Depth Spotlight On The Men Behind The Printed Word
5.25pm every other Saturday. I would stand at the entrance to Wolverhampton railway station. Alternately, I would peer anxiously across to the platform where the train to Crewe would appear any minute and then search eagerly for the van I knew was about to scream up to the kerbside and deposit a fat bundle of pink papers. Would the Sporting Star make it in time?
Dear Diary Entry 72
A Good Deed Done
Wednesday, September 6: Wolves Heroes co-owner John Richards turned good Samaritan after reading in the Express & Star about a Wolves fan who had lost many of his personal possessions in the floods in Texas that followed Hurricane Harvey.
Child’s Play
Famous Names For Famous Books
Several Wolves favourites have been celebrated in the work of one of Britain’s best known thriller writers. Andy Gray, Peter Withe, Mark Burke and even managers Graham Taylor and Tommy Docherty are given name checks as characters or places in novels penned by West Midlander Lee Child.
Wolves And Quiz Ball – A Brief Relationship
Popular TV Show That Lit Up Our Living Rooms
John Holsgrove has delved into his old scrapbooks to remind us of the part he played in a long-running 1960s TV panel show that was loved by football fans the country over. Quiz Ball was on our screens for six years from around the time of England’s World Cup triumph, although Wolves’ part in it was modest in the extreme.
Cup Draw That’s Nostalgia-Packed
City Challenge Conjures Up Golden Memories
It’s not all about 1974 so far as League Cup meetings between Wolves and Manchester City are concerned, easy though it is to fall into that sentimental trap. Beyond the heroics of the flying Gary Pierce, the arms-aloft John Richards, the shirt-swapping Frank Munro and many other Molineux heroes at Wembley 43 years ago, there have been notable occasions of a less spectacular kind in earlier and subsequent clashes of the two clubs in a competition that threw them together again last night.
Reigning Champions!
Phil In The Best Of Nich
Wolves favourites were among the prizes when they renewed acquaintances with their friends from the Wrottesley Park par-three course yesterday. For the 16th year, former Wolves players of different eras were invited to the club just off the A41 near Codsall for an 18-hole competition and buffet that also raises good money for Compton Hospice.
Scary – But All Is Fine For Shaun
Hurricane Drama For Former Wolves Striker
Memories of a Wolves home win over Millwall are still fresh, so this seems an opportune time to report the good news that Shaun Bradbury and his family have emerged unscathed from the Hurricane Irma ordeal. It was against the Londoners in 1993 that the teenage Bradbury made a stunning League debut by scoring twice on the Saturday on which Molineux’s massive South Bank terrace was used for the final time.