Just been mentioned on the headlines of the Radio 4 1p.m. news.
yes very pleased to see the coverage nationally today - here on BBC website main page Ex-England midfielder Flowers dies at 87
Just been mentioned on the headlines of the Radio 4 1p.m. news.
He was at Wednesday and was transferred to Everton. The offences occurred when he was at WednesdayI thought Kay was an Everton player?
I reckon @PumpKing is the guy for thisAs supporters we should mark this, such a significant player deserves something permanent but would be nice if we laid some flowers? Maybe at the Mol or the shop, whats everyone think? Where's best?
Nice tribute on 5live with David Instoneyes very pleased to see the coverage nationally today - here on BBC website main page Ex-England midfielder Flowers dies at 87
Really lovely.Nice to see Geoff Hurst put the England shirt with Flowers 49 on the pitch.
He did.Moment of applause for Ron at Wembley tonight and Sir Geoff Hurst laying an England top, with Flowers on the back, on the hallowed turf. Nice touch. Sir Geoff looked very emotional.
He isn’t far wrongMy Dad says he’s the greatest Wolves player that he ever saw.
A true Wolves hero. RIP.
I would love nothing more Jade,a great idea and I know I could arrange this, and I would be very pleased to do so.I reckon @PumpKing is the guy for this
Sadly not many of the England 66 squad left now.Moment of applause for Ron at Wembley tonight and Sir Geoff Hurst laying an England top, with Flowers on the back, on the hallowed turf. Nice touch. Sir Geoff looked very emotional.
Off the top of my head Cohen Charlton and Hurst from the team and Eastham Callaghan and Paine from the squadSadly not many of the England 66 squad left now.
Thanks @PumpKing knew you was the man for the job. Someone who gave so much to our club deserves our respect and to be given a fitting tribute. I’ll have a think today and get back to you but yeah if anyone else can come up with something that’s awesome. I like the Flowers for Flowers.I would love nothing more Jade,a great idea and I know I could arrange this, and I would be very pleased to do so.
If anyone would like to suggest something, maybe a floral tribute to Ron on behalf of Molineuxmix, then I can arrange for it to be laid in a suitable place at the ground.
Always remember one of the photos in the book, showed Ron on a golf course, which must have been just over his rear garden fence, where his wife is passing a mug of tea to him.One of my first Wolves heroes.
Bought his book 'For Wolves and England' ,
when it was originally published.
A true legend.
Very sad news indeed.
R.I.P. Ron.
I remember going to Ted Macdougall’s sports shop in Bournemouth in 1976 .He served me and my mate and we both bought an orange Adidas top with black stripes .The quality was superb and I kept mine for years .Eventually it got packed away and forgotten about .I found it again a few years back and it had (ahem) miraculously shrunkWell done to the Daily Mail and the i paper today for both having good sized tribute articles on Ron Flowers.
With the great man's passing the era of every city or fair sized town having a sports shop being owned and run by an ex professional sportsman must be about to became something that will be in the past very shortly.
Southgate doesn't do "sentimental", even when his robots are 5 up against total dross like Albania.It would have been a fitting tribute for Southgate to have put the current Wolves captain on for the last 15 minutes last night.
Shame it didn’t happen.
Jimmy mullen had a shop in broad street wolverhampton,not sure if he had any others though?Reminiscing about Ron and his sports shop on Queens Street, did Jimmy Mullen also have a sports shop on Oxford Street, just on the south side of Bilston Town centre, across the road from the Oak and Ivy, or did I imagine that?
Just the oneJimmy mullen had a shop in broad street wolverhampton,not sure if he had any others though?
Bert Williams had a training centre in Bilston I believeReminiscing about Ron and his sports shop on Queens Street, did Jimmy Mullen also have a sports shop on Oxford Street, just on the south side of Bilston Town centre, across the road from the Oak and Ivy, or did I imagine that?
It was Bert Williams who had the shop in the bilston area of the city.Reminiscing about Ron and his sports shop on Queens Street, did Jimmy Mullen also have a sports shop on Oxford Street, just on the south side of Bilston Town centre, across the road from the Oak and Ivy, or did I imagine that?
Thanks. My imagination running wild back then or memory fading. Either way, both Ron and Jimmy, old gold legends of the very finest vintage. RIP both.Jimmy mullen had a shop in broad street wolverhampton,not sure if he had any others though?
Yes, you are being picky. 'Blessed' or 'lucky' -- please explain the differenceI’ve just read a Dave Edwards article in the Express and Star where he talks about Mick Mcarthy and how he is far too good to be out of football for long. Many paragraphs long.
At the end of the article there are a couple of paragraphs about Ron and his final sentence states ‘Wolves were very lucky to have him spend his career here’.
To be honest those final words disappoint me. We were not lucky, we were blessed to have Ron Flowers play for our great club, considering the number of games he played and the deserved recognition the great man received playing for a club obviously close to his heart.
Maybe I am being a bit picky, but choose your words a bit more carefully please Dave, especially for one of our true greats!
I think Jimmy Mullen had a sports shop in Broad St Wolverhampton.It was Bert Williams who had the shop in the bilston area of the city.
To me, lucky means winning the lottery. You have a one in ten million (or more) chance of winning. We were not ‘lucky‘ with Ron Flowers.Yes, you are being picky. 'Blessed' or 'lucky' -- please explain the difference