Countdown Continues To Milestone Man
All Eyes On The Final 11
How far away are we now from learning the identity of the 1,000th man to play League football for Wolverhampton Wanderers? The landmark day or night is still sure to be at least a few months off but has come a lot closer with the flurry of debuts the club have handed out during the early weeks of this season.
More Frank Revelations
How Close Was That 1966 Dream?
Such is our unquenchable thirst for knowledge about former Wolves players that we have recently sniffed out more information from the post-Molineux career of Frank Wignall. A piece in a Nottingham Forest programme from 1980-81, which was a nostalgia article even then, has helped us fill in one or two more gaps on the one-time England centre-forward whose goals helped Ronnie Allen’s newly-promoted side stave off the threat of relegation in 1967-68.
There’s Only Two Phil Parkeses!
Namesake Keepers Top Backpass’ Latest Wolves Content
Issue 46 of Backpass contains the usual generous mentions of Wolves – more than enough to catch the eye of former Molineux boss Dave Jones anyway! The job-seeking manager has returned to the gold and black family in a big way in recent weeks with three appearances at golf days organised by or involving one-time Wolves players.
Didn’t I Use To Know You?
Keeper Colleagues Meet Again Nearly 50 Years On
“So what have you been up to for the last 45 years, mate?” We at Wolves Heroes just love to tell the stories of Molineux favourites to their adoring masses, usually some decades on. Equally, we revel in reconnecting long-lost former team-mates, so this was too good an opportunity to miss……
A Tale Of Two Rivals
Hard-man Defender Going Into Print
No man has totalled more competitive first-team appearances for Wolves and Albion than Alistair Robertson. Of all the players to have served both clubs, none has remotely approached his staggering combined haul of 762 – that’s 136 in gold and black and 626 while at The Hawthorns.
To Sweden – With Love
Why Daly Star Rose Overseas
Wolverhampton might think it had seen and heard the last of Maurice Daly, the talented young Irishman who turned his back on a new Molineux contract and walked into the arms of a Swedish girlfriend. Not so! Charlie Bamforth, our no 1 tracker-down of far-flung former players, has surpassed himself by locating him in the wilds of Scandinavia and now brings our readers the full fascinating story……
He Won’t Forget Ernie!
Bobby On The Trail Of Team-Mate Who Became His Best Man
Bobby Woodruff has thanked Wolves Heroes for reconnecting him with one of his Molineux team-mates from half a century ago – and made tracking down another a priority for 2015-16. The 74-year-old was grateful to be given contact details by us for Terry Wharton, the winger whose stay in the West Midlands considerable outlasted his own.
Dear Diary Entry 47
‘Tis The Season For Golf As Well
Monday, August 3: Two more golf dates have, hopefully, made it into our diary. Former Wolves players have their annual visit to the Wrottesley Park par-three course at Perton on Sunday, September 13, and a representation from the club are due to tee off alongside their counterparts from Albion, Villa and Blues in the Midland Golf Challenge at the impressive Forest of Arden on Friday, September 11.
Succeeding In The States
Ex-Wolves Men Hit The Heights
Following on from Charles Bamforth’s excellent piece on the life and times of America-based John Teasdale, we thought we would dip into the knowledge of another of our friends over there to update Wolves Heroes readers on the fortunes across the Atlantic of three former Molineux favourites. Daniel Gaichas is a reporter and regular watcher of Chicago Fire but keeps a close ear to the ground on events at other clubs, as well as at the English team of his dreams, Wolves.
A ‘Tease’ In LA
Schmoozing With Rod And The Other Stars
If Wolves had not been in desperate financial straits in the early 1980s, things might have turned out very differently for John Teasdale. Instead, he has had to suck it up in later life by jogging at Newport Beach, shooting the breeze with Rod Stewart and dating a movie star. “Life is good” he tells me. One can see why – but one can also see that the Teasdale football career has been one of so near, and yet…