The Continentals Win Again / “80 Years on What’s New” Wolverhampton Wanderers finished the season 1930-31 with what was considered to be now a well equipped squad, finishing just seven points short of promotion from the Second Division. In the season break Wolves were invited to take part in an […]
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A Man Of Wolverhampton
Who, in Wolverhampton over the age of 60, has not heard the name of Bert Adey, a sportsman and popular licensee of a once equally known William Butler’s house; the ‘Pear Tree’? Showing some early foresight At the end of the Great War , when making his name as a […]
Read moreSpiralling Wages! A Threat Once Again To The Beautiful Game?
Have I heard this before? Manchester City have taken over from Chelsea and Man Utd, and are now certainly being a ‘pain in the backside’ to the poorer clubs in the Premiership. I feel this inequality will cause some clubs to overspend and possibly we could well see a number […]
Read moreQuery Corner
Hello to everyone who enjoys reading my Blog, again I would like to say a big thank you, as it’s always fun to get an email or a comment on something I have posted. I have had a few more comments left on the posts recently and I hope this […]
Read moreSign Of The Times, The Writing’s On The Wall
They have re-designed the set, the Old players have left, the World I once lived in, is once more bereft. When this picture was taken in 1974, as well as the shadow cast by the sun, from above the new subway, a shadow of doom had already been […]
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Now, it may be the closeness I had with my parents and grandparents as a child that gave me this fondness for looking back at my life in Wolverhampton (Woffledom) . For it was through their environment I.E. (the centre of town) and their active life there, I came to […]
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