Fond memories of Christmas games.

[Rusty Staples]

Anyone have fond memories of Wolves games played over the Christmas period.
I will start it of with the fine 2-1 win over Everton on Boxing Day 1970, two goals from the Doog on a snow covered Molineux pitch.

 

[JadeWolf]

Man City last season has gotta be up there.

 

[reanswolf]

I can remember a Boxing Day home defeat to Ipswich (0-2) in front of 28000 in Mick McCarthy's reign.
Booed off, and rightfully so.

 

[Deleted member 4099]

Man City last season has gotta be up there.

God that feels so long ago now.

 

[hankin]

Eastville, Bristol to see us win 5-1 in 1976.

 

[manchesterwolf17]

Our Boxing Day 3-2 against Bristol City under Lambert was a rare highlight of that season in the league.

That ridiculous clearance in stoppage time when it looked for the world that they'd equalised. No one had a clue if the goal had been given or the game was over.

Also etched in my memory as the day I walked out of the ground thinking I'd won 3k on a 6 fold of draws having looked at the scores on the telly. Only to discover Northampton had scored a 94th minute injury time winner at Oxford.

Still hurts.

 

[Hot Fuss]

I can remember a Boxing Day home defeat to Ipswich (0-2) in front of 28000 in Mick McCarthy's reign.
Booed off, and rightfully so.

Mick in charge of Ipswich? Was a few days after Boxing Day, when we’d lost 3-0 at home to Peterborough. What a merry Xmas that was.

 

[manchesterwolf17]

Mick in charge of Ipswich? Was a few days after Boxing Day, when we’d lost 3-0 at home to Peterborough. What a merry Xmas that was.

Was quite impressive how we managed to make the Ipswich game even worse than the Peterborough one, which was pretty much as bad as it gets.

 

[Hot Fuss]

Remember going to Stockport and losing 3-2 on Boxing Day. Wracked off.
Remember going to Oldham and losing 4–1 on Boxing Day. Wracked off.
Remember going to Swindon and losing 1-0 on Boxing Day. Wracked off.

 

[Big Saft Kid]

I am the third one in this thread to nominate the 5-1 at Eastville in 1976. Drove down listening on the car cassette player (!) to the music from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. Alan Sunderland played a blinder, as I recall.

A couple of others:

A 5-3 win at the old Baseball Ground in 1967 on a mud heap of a pitch. Bob Hatton (remember him?) scored at least one of our goals. We won the return fixture played a couple of days later (or was it before?) 3-0 at Molineux.

A 7-0 pummeling of Portsmouth at Molineux in 1958, my first Christmas game at the age of 10. I am pretty sure there were two hat-tricks, one definitely by Colin Booth, the other Peter Broadbent, I think. We won the return fixture a couple of days before at Fratton 5-3, making a 12-3 total for Christmas! The smell of Christmas cigar smoke in the crowd, pints of beer being consumed in real glasses in the Waterloo Stand standing area! Happy days!

 

[WickedWolfie]

Mick in charge of Ipswich? Was a few days after Boxing Day, when we’d lost 3-0 at home to Peterborough. What a merry Xmas that was.

Was that just before the Luton FA Cup game?

 

[Tring Wolf]

Nouha Dicko scoring the winner against Watford as my Watford-supporting in-laws and I tucked into our Boxing Day Dinner...

 

[WickedWolfie]

Nouha Dicko scoring the winner against Watford as my Watford-supporting in-laws and I tucked into our Boxing Day Dinner...

Doubtless you said 'damn unlucky' or similar..... lol

 

[Bill McCai]

Was it a Boxing Day game when Reading absolutely smashed us (footballing wise) at Molineux? I think Hoddle was in charge.

 

[Hot Fuss]

Was that just before the Luton FA Cup game?

yep. Another pearler.

 

[WickedWolfie]

yep. Another pearler.

That really was the festive season from hell. I was at all three too..

 

[Hot Fuss]

Was it a Boxing Day game when Reading absolutely smashed us (footballing wise) at Molineux? I think Hoddle was in charge.

Yes. They were very good.

 

[Hot Fuss]

That really was the festive season from hell. I was at all three too..

And me. At least Deano came in to make in a happy new year.

 

[WickedWolfie]

And me. At least Deano came in to make in a happy new year.

I take it that is irony.... We must have been on the naughty list that year to get that "gift"....

 

[WickedWolfie]

Was it a Boxing Day game when Reading absolutely smashed us (footballing wise) at Molineux? I think Hoddle was in charge.

Was that their Coppell promotion season?

 

[drewsie]

Boxing Day 1990 - Sheffield Wednesday away.

2 nil down, absolutely ****ed it down, dog on the pitch, John Hawks sent off for them and we ended up drawing the game 2-2.


the other thing I remember is it was the only the 2nd time I’d sat down at a game. The lower tier of the Leepings Lane end was still closed because of the Hillsborough disaster. At half time I went down to the front of the upper tier and had a look at the lower terracing. What I saw shocked me. I was 18 at the time. Some of the crush barriers were literally bent over or in some cases partially ripped out from the concrete.

A few times back then, I (and I’m sure a lot a folks on here) experienced getting pinned to a barrier on the old South Bank. It wasn’t pleasant to feel a surge of folks on top of you and you’re pinned to one of those things. Cannot begin to imagine the horror of those poor people who attended that semi final.

 

[Axle]

Boxing Day in the 1990s played Oxford United twice in consecutive years. 3-1 and 1-1 I think?

 

[manchesterwolf17]

Was that their Coppell promotion season?

Yeh. They set all sorts of records that season.

The most impressive being that they only lost 2 games. 1 being on the opening day as well. So 1 other in 45. Which in any league is amazing, let alone the Championship.

 

[JR WAS KING]

Eastville, Bristol to see us win 5-1 in 1976.

I was there

 

[JR WAS KING]

Was it a Boxing Day game when Reading absolutely smashed us (footballing wise) at Molineux? I think Hoddle was in charge.

Yes, it was early evening and I was totally ****ed off after the game

 

[JR WAS KING]

Wolves 2 Birmingham 1

1978, I'm sure someone got a last minute winner

 

[Hot Fuss]

Wolves 2 Oxford 1 between Xmas and new year in early 90s.
1-0 down with 5 minutes to go and won 2-1, Kevin Keen last minute winner. Ground went mental.

 

[Saltyjim]

Wolves 2 Birmingham 1

1978, I'm sure someone got a last minute winner

Peter Daniel penalty?

 

[hankin]

Wolves 2 Birmingham 1

1978, I'm sure someone got a last minute winner

I had forgotten that. A Peter Daniels penalty I think, or was that the equaliser? This was the start of the revival under John Barnwell after having suffered heavy home defeats against Villa and WBA..

 

[JadeWolf]

Remember Saiss scoring an absolute rocket away at Millwall on Boxing Day

 

[Big Saft Kid]

Remember Boxing Day 1963, anyone? An all time record goalfest:

Boxing Day football: Liverpool score six, Man United concede six in goal fest of 1963

talkSPORT’s dynamic duo Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore would have lost the power of speech if they were in the commentary box 50 years ago today. There was an incredible 66 goals scored in…

talksport.com

 

[Nivada]

Wolves 2 Birmingham 1

1978, I'm sure someone got a last minute winner

Yeah Birmingham did.

 

[whitnash wolf ex.dewsbury]

bristol city home then away 27/28 dec.1965/66. 1-1 buckley then 1-0 knowles.remember the away game stood at the back of the stand with the floodlight generator fumes making me feel sick.think they were new lights.crowd was over 36000.then driving home on an icy night and the car heater packing up

 

[Jack Russell]

I am the third one in this thread to nominate the 5-1 at Eastville in 1976. Drove down listening on the car cassette player (!) to the music from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. Alan Sunderland played a blinder, as I recall.

A couple of others:

A 5-3 win at the old Baseball Ground in 1967 on a mud heap of a pitch. Bob Hatton (remember him?) scored at least one of our goals. We won the return fixture played a couple of days later (or was it before?) 3-0 at Molineux.

A 7-0 pummeling of Portsmouth at Molineux in 1958, my first Christmas game at the age of 10. I am pretty sure there were two hat-tricks, one definitely by Colin Booth, the other Peter Broadbent, I think. We won the return fixture a couple of days before at Fratton 5-3, making a 12-3 total for Christmas! The smell of Christmas cigar smoke in the crowd, pints of beer being consumed in real glasses in the Waterloo Stand standing area! Happy days!

I remember the Portsmouth matches at Christmas 1958. I didn't see them as we were living in Dorset at the time and I was only just 15, but the results certainly made my Christmas!

The 7-0 match was in front of 41,347 at Molineux. Scorers were Booth 3, Deeley 3 and Horne.

At Fratton Park, the attendance was 28,022. Scorers were Broadbent 3, Booth and Deeley.

 

[JR WAS KING]

Yeah Birmingham did.

Eh??

 

[JR WAS KING]

Peter Daniel penalty?

That's it

 

[NavyWolf]

Mick in charge of Ipswich? Was a few days after Boxing Day, when we’d lost 3-0 at home to Peterborough. What a merry Xmas that was.

Yeah that was a truly awful game. Mick's first back at Molineux wasn't it?

 

[Berlin Wolf]

Wolves 2 Oxford 1 between Xmas and new year in early 90s.
1-0 down with 5 minutes to go and won 2-1, Kevin Keen last minute winner. Ground went mental.

Good call. That match is often in my mind, as it was my first time in Sir Jack's completed Molineux, it looked great.
Was sat In the Billy Wright stand, and as you say the ground went mental, Christmas period 1993.

 

[Alex Rae The Substitute]

Spurs 0–1 Wolves 2009 stands out for me.

Christ that was a long game! Jubilation in the away end though was unreal at full time.

Being londoners ourselves we’d snuck into some of the home pubs before kickoff and mutual friends of ours were super confident “Spurs will win 4-0”, “At least 5 today I reckon” they were all telling us having recently hammered Wigan at home 9–1...

... we ended up in a Spurs pub again after the game, was so satisfying chatting to the same mob at FT!

 

[Hot Fuss]

Yeah that was a truly awful game. Mick's first back at Molineux wasn't it?

It was, got a deserved round of applause.