I wish I had been able to get to a game or two prior to the "new" stand being built in 78. Would have loved to have seen the ground that had hosted the clubs greatest era in person. I was 12 before I got inside Molineux, quite late by most peoples standards it seems and like DJ I had watched a lot of non league at Hednesford before hand as well as playing every day.
Incredible when you think about it that kicking a bag of wind about can generate such fascination.
https://youtu.be/SHxBqWBsJ18
This from 1949 oldgoldie. Hardly any different in 1979 except the standing at the front of the molineux street stand had been converted to seats.
comment by Vicious Wolf (U8869)
posted 30 minutes ago
https://youtu.be/SHxBqWBsJ18
This from 1949 oldgoldie. Hardly any different in 1979 except the standing at the front of the molineux street stand had been converted to seats.
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Thanks Vicious, now I feel really old. I wasn't born until nearly 18 months after that game, but I did see at least 4 of that team play. Next time I go to a game I'll get them to carry me around the pitch on a stretcher like they did with the Cup. Don't worry, I could walk around but it would be nice to be carried
Strange that UH hasn't regaled us with an amusing anecdote of how he became a Wolves supporter many years ago
or halfy, or wolfie, cinci and perton
Halfy doesn't 'do' requests
My story has been told many times on here Wolfgang. But if you like, I'll repeat it.
My dad is a Blues fan, as were my granddad and uncle. I went to quite a few Blues games when I was younger. My dad and my uncle both had a soft spot for Wolves, because of the 1970s team when they were growing up.
My family had a tradition of going to watch football over the Christmas period. Usually on boxing day, we would play football at the park in the morning, then my uncle would buy tickets for whichever Midlands team were at home (predominantly Blues and Wolves). Him, my dad and my granddad would all go. The first game I can remember going to was Birmingham v West Brom during the Christmas break of the 1993-94 season when I was 6 years old, the first time I went along. Blues won 2-0 and my family must have been confident I was set to be a Blues fan.
The next game I remember going to was my first ever game at Molineux, as Wolves hosted Blues. I went with my dad and my uncle. Wolves won 3-0. From that day I became a Wolves fan. I think I thought the name 'Wolves' was cool and I became a big fan of Steve Bull over time (probably the fact Wolves won helped too). My dad and uncle never really stopped me. My uncle got me a birthday card signed by Steve Bull for my 8th birthday - something I still have now after my uncle passed away.
I still went to a lot of Blues games (Tamworth FC too), as I liked watching football. The 1994-95 season I went to pretty much every round of the Auto Windscreens Shield as Blues won it. That was my first time to Wembley too. I was still adamant I was a Wolves fan though and my dad took me to Molineux as much as we went to St Andrews.
I was pretty much the only Wolves fan in my year at school. Everyone who wasn't a glory hunter supported Villa, Blues or West Brom. As a teenager, when I wasn't going to Wolves or any other football with my dad, I used to sometimes go to Villa Park to watch a game with my friends and sit in the Holte End. Always preferred the South Bank though.
your post refering to just loving to watch football rings a bell with me tam. we moved from wolvo to halesowen when i was 12. the next door neighbours were blues fans so if i couldnt get to a wolves game i would go with them to blues. if that wasn't on i'd watch halesowen or lye or stourbridge. as i got older if work patterns stopped me getting to wolves or just if wolves werent playing i'd go to any of the midlands clubs, even stoke or ,yes, albion.. i followed one walsall cup run when david kelly was playing for them and a fair few albion when the 3 degrees were playing. one game that stands out was a cup replay at villa park between leeds and i think norwich. leeds were at their pinnacle and set a record of about 7 minutes for passing without the other team touching the ball.
as time went on i started following dortmund, one time the wolves midweek match was postponed but dortmund were playing at m,gladbach so off i went. got to gladbach about 3pm and it was a glorious winters day, come 6 pm and it was dense fog, match abandoned !
Should have checked the weather forecast before you went
a little story, halfy no doubt would say more name dropping. one time in the 80s i was at a dortmund home game. walking back to the city centre after the game a big black 7 series bmw screams to a stop and the diver jumps out , i thought it was the german mafia and my time had come, but no it was rolf russman, dortmund captain !
a german friend who worked at the westfallen stadion on match days had told him a wolves fan was there, rolf was a strong wolves fan and wanted to meet me !
we chatted and he arranged to come where me and my german friends drank on sunday dinnertime, which he did. from then on he regularly went to that pub to chat to my friends, some of whom were wolves fans and me when i was over there.
My footballing buddies in the street (late 60's) were wolves but we were too young to go up alone & had Dad's who worked weekends, so it was just playing footy in Wolves shirts (one of the lads brother was on wolves playing staff) & he's only take us to play if we had Gold shirts on. Once it got to the early 70's I was trusted enough to go with my mates & just got hooked. During the early/mid 70's before we were working & didn't have money to go away we also went up to watch games at the poorthorns & the vile (much of Dudley was 50/50 wolves/Albion) as some of the lads I hung about with were boggies, went to games with them but never supported (especially when the brummie road was taken by man U & Spurs - all armed with baseball bats & the like)
comment by Sir Halfy ...40%Chinese40%Portuguese20%NPD (U11570)
posted 24 minutes ago
Should have checked the weather forecast before you went
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turned out ok miseryguts.
depeche mode were at dusseldorf the next day
Oh & of course there was Wembley 74, went with my next door who was died in the wool WWFC to pee off his old man, saw him for the first time in years about 5 years ago & he's become a ST holder at B71
I tell anyone that asks that I am just a glory Hunter which always ends with a startled look as the cogs turn and they say 'wolves haven't had any have they'.
But otherwise not much to tell, my dad always spoke very highly of wolves when I was growing up as I always wanted to know the history of the game(or anything really) and for whatever reason the wolves part and beating the world's best always stuck and it baffled me why they were now so poor, my first few seasons were the relegations down to the very bottom but I never buckled which is surprising for a kid of 10-12 years of age who could easily have jumped on the glory boy train.
Strange thing is cinci I look back at those years and think they were some of the best years following wolves the three successive relegations were horrible years yes but the rest when they are on their way back up we're great.
They where great years and cometh the hour cometh the man. Ground was dire two sides but nothing could beat being in the South Bank when Bully got um!
49 years ago this week Wolves signed midfielder Kenny Hibbitt from Fourth Division side Bradford Park Avenue for £5,000.
Legend and my all time favourite player
Does anybody have any post-war stories ?
comment by Vicious Wolf (U8869)
posted 3 hours, 38 minutes ago
a little story, halfy no doubt would say more name dropping. one time in the 80s i was at a dortmund home game. walking back to the city centre after the game a big black 7 series bmw screams to a stop and the diver jumps out , i thought it was the german mafia and my time had come, but no it was rolf russman, dortmund captain !
a german friend who worked at the westfallen stadion on match days had told him a wolves fan was there, rolf was a strong wolves fan and wanted to meet me !
we chatted and he arranged to come where me and my german friends drank on sunday dinnertime, which he did. from then on he regularly went to that pub to chat to my friends, some of whom were wolves fans and me when i was over there.
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Call that name dropping ? never heard of him!
£60Mil ......
http://sportwitness.co.uk/wolves-one-interested-clubs-signing-midfielder-meeting-postponed/
comment by GeminMallorca (U18318)
posted 24 minutes ago
49 years ago this week Wolves signed midfielder Kenny Hibbitt from Fourth Division side Bradford Park Avenue for £5,000.
Legend and my all time favourite player
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just for you gem, kennys goal @16;03
i was there, were you ?
here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtcYnI9CQs
Everyone was raving about Helda Costa last season but King Kenny was scoring those goals in the snow on a muddy pitch with a ball that weighed about 2 kilos.
Waggy's goal was a scorcher as well by the way.
I wasn't going to many games in the early seventies due to racing at Hednesford Raceway so that was a gbrilliant stroll down Memory Lane.
Nice one Wolfgang
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posted on 8/11/17
I wish I had been able to get to a game or two prior to the "new" stand being built in 78. Would have loved to have seen the ground that had hosted the clubs greatest era in person. I was 12 before I got inside Molineux, quite late by most peoples standards it seems and like DJ I had watched a lot of non league at Hednesford before hand as well as playing every day.
Incredible when you think about it that kicking a bag of wind about can generate such fascination.
posted on 8/11/17
https://youtu.be/SHxBqWBsJ18
This from 1949 oldgoldie. Hardly any different in 1979 except the standing at the front of the molineux street stand had been converted to seats.
posted on 8/11/17
Looks .a full house
posted on 8/11/17
comment by Vicious Wolf (U8869)
posted 30 minutes ago
https://youtu.be/SHxBqWBsJ18
This from 1949 oldgoldie. Hardly any different in 1979 except the standing at the front of the molineux street stand had been converted to seats.
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Thanks Vicious, now I feel really old. I wasn't born until nearly 18 months after that game, but I did see at least 4 of that team play. Next time I go to a game I'll get them to carry me around the pitch on a stretcher like they did with the Cup. Don't worry, I could walk around but it would be nice to be carried
posted on 8/11/17
Strange that UH hasn't regaled us with an amusing anecdote of how he became a Wolves supporter many years ago
posted on 8/11/17
or halfy, or wolfie, cinci and perton
posted on 8/11/17
Halfy doesn't 'do' requests
posted on 8/11/17
My story has been told many times on here Wolfgang. But if you like, I'll repeat it.
posted on 9/11/17
My dad is a Blues fan, as were my granddad and uncle. I went to quite a few Blues games when I was younger. My dad and my uncle both had a soft spot for Wolves, because of the 1970s team when they were growing up.
My family had a tradition of going to watch football over the Christmas period. Usually on boxing day, we would play football at the park in the morning, then my uncle would buy tickets for whichever Midlands team were at home (predominantly Blues and Wolves). Him, my dad and my granddad would all go. The first game I can remember going to was Birmingham v West Brom during the Christmas break of the 1993-94 season when I was 6 years old, the first time I went along. Blues won 2-0 and my family must have been confident I was set to be a Blues fan.
The next game I remember going to was my first ever game at Molineux, as Wolves hosted Blues. I went with my dad and my uncle. Wolves won 3-0. From that day I became a Wolves fan. I think I thought the name 'Wolves' was cool and I became a big fan of Steve Bull over time (probably the fact Wolves won helped too). My dad and uncle never really stopped me. My uncle got me a birthday card signed by Steve Bull for my 8th birthday - something I still have now after my uncle passed away.
I still went to a lot of Blues games (Tamworth FC too), as I liked watching football. The 1994-95 season I went to pretty much every round of the Auto Windscreens Shield as Blues won it. That was my first time to Wembley too. I was still adamant I was a Wolves fan though and my dad took me to Molineux as much as we went to St Andrews.
I was pretty much the only Wolves fan in my year at school. Everyone who wasn't a glory hunter supported Villa, Blues or West Brom. As a teenager, when I wasn't going to Wolves or any other football with my dad, I used to sometimes go to Villa Park to watch a game with my friends and sit in the Holte End. Always preferred the South Bank though.
posted on 9/11/17
your post refering to just loving to watch football rings a bell with me tam. we moved from wolvo to halesowen when i was 12. the next door neighbours were blues fans so if i couldnt get to a wolves game i would go with them to blues. if that wasn't on i'd watch halesowen or lye or stourbridge. as i got older if work patterns stopped me getting to wolves or just if wolves werent playing i'd go to any of the midlands clubs, even stoke or ,yes, albion.. i followed one walsall cup run when david kelly was playing for them and a fair few albion when the 3 degrees were playing. one game that stands out was a cup replay at villa park between leeds and i think norwich. leeds were at their pinnacle and set a record of about 7 minutes for passing without the other team touching the ball.
as time went on i started following dortmund, one time the wolves midweek match was postponed but dortmund were playing at m,gladbach so off i went. got to gladbach about 3pm and it was a glorious winters day, come 6 pm and it was dense fog, match abandoned !
posted on 9/11/17
Should have checked the weather forecast before you went
posted on 9/11/17
a little story, halfy no doubt would say more name dropping. one time in the 80s i was at a dortmund home game. walking back to the city centre after the game a big black 7 series bmw screams to a stop and the diver jumps out , i thought it was the german mafia and my time had come, but no it was rolf russman, dortmund captain !
a german friend who worked at the westfallen stadion on match days had told him a wolves fan was there, rolf was a strong wolves fan and wanted to meet me !
we chatted and he arranged to come where me and my german friends drank on sunday dinnertime, which he did. from then on he regularly went to that pub to chat to my friends, some of whom were wolves fans and me when i was over there.
posted on 9/11/17
My footballing buddies in the street (late 60's) were wolves but we were too young to go up alone & had Dad's who worked weekends, so it was just playing footy in Wolves shirts (one of the lads brother was on wolves playing staff) & he's only take us to play if we had Gold shirts on. Once it got to the early 70's I was trusted enough to go with my mates & just got hooked. During the early/mid 70's before we were working & didn't have money to go away we also went up to watch games at the poorthorns & the vile (much of Dudley was 50/50 wolves/Albion) as some of the lads I hung about with were boggies, went to games with them but never supported (especially when the brummie road was taken by man U & Spurs - all armed with baseball bats & the like)
posted on 9/11/17
comment by Sir Halfy ...40%Chinese40%Portuguese20%NPD (U11570)
posted 24 minutes ago
Should have checked the weather forecast before you went
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turned out ok miseryguts.
depeche mode were at dusseldorf the next day
posted on 9/11/17
Oh & of course there was Wembley 74, went with my next door who was died in the wool WWFC to pee off his old man, saw him for the first time in years about 5 years ago & he's become a ST holder at B71
posted on 9/11/17
I tell anyone that asks that I am just a glory Hunter which always ends with a startled look as the cogs turn and they say 'wolves haven't had any have they'.
But otherwise not much to tell, my dad always spoke very highly of wolves when I was growing up as I always wanted to know the history of the game(or anything really) and for whatever reason the wolves part and beating the world's best always stuck and it baffled me why they were now so poor, my first few seasons were the relegations down to the very bottom but I never buckled which is surprising for a kid of 10-12 years of age who could easily have jumped on the glory boy train.
posted on 9/11/17
Strange thing is cinci I look back at those years and think they were some of the best years following wolves the three successive relegations were horrible years yes but the rest when they are on their way back up we're great.
posted on 9/11/17
They where great years and cometh the hour cometh the man. Ground was dire two sides but nothing could beat being in the South Bank when Bully got um!
posted on 9/11/17
49 years ago this week Wolves signed midfielder Kenny Hibbitt from Fourth Division side Bradford Park Avenue for £5,000.
Legend and my all time favourite player
posted on 9/11/17
Does anybody have any post-war stories ?
posted on 9/11/17
comment by Vicious Wolf (U8869)
posted 3 hours, 38 minutes ago
a little story, halfy no doubt would say more name dropping. one time in the 80s i was at a dortmund home game. walking back to the city centre after the game a big black 7 series bmw screams to a stop and the diver jumps out , i thought it was the german mafia and my time had come, but no it was rolf russman, dortmund captain !
a german friend who worked at the westfallen stadion on match days had told him a wolves fan was there, rolf was a strong wolves fan and wanted to meet me !
we chatted and he arranged to come where me and my german friends drank on sunday dinnertime, which he did. from then on he regularly went to that pub to chat to my friends, some of whom were wolves fans and me when i was over there.
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Call that name dropping ? never heard of him!
posted on 9/11/17
£60Mil ......
http://sportwitness.co.uk/wolves-one-interested-clubs-signing-midfielder-meeting-postponed/
posted on 9/11/17
comment by GeminMallorca (U18318)
posted 24 minutes ago
49 years ago this week Wolves signed midfielder Kenny Hibbitt from Fourth Division side Bradford Park Avenue for £5,000.
Legend and my all time favourite player
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just for you gem, kennys goal @16;03
i was there, were you ?
posted on 9/11/17
here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYtcYnI9CQs
posted on 9/11/17
Everyone was raving about Helda Costa last season but King Kenny was scoring those goals in the snow on a muddy pitch with a ball that weighed about 2 kilos.
Waggy's goal was a scorcher as well by the way.
I wasn't going to many games in the early seventies due to racing at Hednesford Raceway so that was a gbrilliant stroll down Memory Lane.
Nice one Wolfgang
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