I remember the Ibrox disaster like it was Yesterday.Everyone remembers Hillsborough and Heysel but the Ibrox disaster was equally awful when 66 fans lost their lives,which in this case was not as a result of rioting or fans arriving late.RIP to all concerned.
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As a young wolves fan I never got to witness the bad days. Talk about the Chorley defeat and brief mention of the Bhatti Brothers was all the education I had if anything a few duff game against Stockport etc under McGhee and Colin Lee was the end of the world yet the one thing I did share was...
How Legendary Keeper Cut His Teeth At Wolves
He may be best known at Molineux for having to pick the ball out of his net five times in 45 minutes on a wondrous afternoon nearly 40 years ago. But there's another story linking Bob Wilson with Wolverhampton Wanderers that is very much worth...
Coming Home to Molineux: Fifty Years on
Vitalfootball: Wolves: 18/10/2010 09:31:00
On Friday night I couldn`t sleep for excitement. I had not anticipated a visit so keenly since 1950.
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Wolves have become Marcus Bent's 14th different club after the player signed a four-month loan deal from Birmingham City. Bent has fallen down the pecking order at St Andrew's.
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Winger Lutton Back In Town
They were room-mates when they toured Zambia and Malawi as teenagers with a Wolves age-group squad, incurred the wrath of Bill McGarry on an Anglo Italian Cup trip and played a handful of first-team games together. But Bertie Lutton and John Richards hadn't seen each...
Can you imagine the house of commons banning the England football team from international football for 2 years and dissolving the FA because of our poor display at the world cup?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8777118.stm
Almost four years ago, Mick McCarthy led a threadbare squad down South to face Plymouth, a team widely expected to rival us for relegation from the Championship:
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Clyde-Breen-Craddock-Naylor
O'Connor---Henry---Ricketts---Clapham
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I have not seen this posted so
RIP a shocking day, I remember it better than Hillsbrough, I was playing when Hillsbrough happened so did not really see the pictures.
I was in hospital having had my first knee operation on that fateful day so watched all the pictures live....
Whilst I...
I'm currently working at the Chronicle as a trainee journalist (boo hiss) and was asked to do a look back piece for next weeks edition.
It is almost 50 years to the day that we beat Blackburn 3-0 in the FA Cup final, Billy Wright as a spectator did a piece in the paper about it and left a...
John Lalley Hails The FA Cup Winners
A wind of change was sweeping through Britain in 1960. The prim austerity of the 1950s was slowly but inexorably being engulfed by the outset of the ‘swinging sixties’ and 1960 was the year that Penguin Books were prosecuted under the Obscene...
McCarthy is the best in 30 years says Jez
Vitalfootball: Wolves: 27/04/2010 11:52:00
McCarthy is the best Wolves boss in 30 years according to Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey.
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23rd April 1960 and my Dad walked me down Albert Road and through the West Park for my first ever game at Molineux. Us and 56000 odd others saw us lose 1-3 to Spurs and effectively lose the chance to do the first modern day cup and league double. Don't think that mattered to me at the time, the...
http://www.sportsbooks.ltd.uk/book_info/facupfiftyyearson.html
I have just read an advanced copy of this book and its a real cracker. It is a celebration of the fourth and last time we won the FA Cup and includes some interviews with players who played in that team and details of the journey...
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