SEMI-FOUR – Mixed messages in 70s FA Cup semi-finals……….
At some point between January and April my Dad would describe a team as ‘playing badly enough to win the cup.’
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GOODBYE TO A FOOTBALL MAN – Roy Sambrook (1932-2021)
For 45 years Dad and I went to football matches together – games from the bottom of the pyramid to a Wembley League Cup Final.
STATUETTES AND LIBERTIES – The Footballer of The Year (1960-69)
Two 1960s ‘Footballer of the Year’ winners (Bobby Moore -1964/Jack Charlton -1967) find something else to celebrate…
A LEAGUE (CUP) OF THEIR OWN – THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE CUP FINAL: 1967-76
1972: STOKE CITY 2 CHELSEA 1: Sure and steady overcomes flash and dash……..
MATCH OF THE DAY – 20 Football Matches That Were Well Worth Seeing
England v Brazil, Guadalajara – 7 June 1970: ‘Have so many world class footballers ever been assembled on one pitch?’
FIXTURES AND FITTING IN – 3pm on a 70s Saturday……..
For years my Dad lived by the adage ‘never book a summer holiday until the fixtures are out.’
AN ALL-ENGLAND EUROPEAN FINAL…….in 1972
Goalkeepers Phil Parkes and Pat Jennings each wear gloves in the Molineux first-leg, but for the return on May 17 both play in bare hands.
THE KID WAS ALRIGHT – the 1974 League Cup Final from the perspective of a 12 year-old
The ball rolled into the path of Richards whose low shot brought Wolves their first major honour for fourteen years.
BACK IN THE HIGH LIFE – Wolves get pointers but not points against Spurs
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 3 – Saturday 3rd November 2018 (7.45pm); There is a song that resounds from the stands at Molineux these days which ends with the line: ‘We’re Wolverhampton – we’re on our way back.’ On leaving…
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FORWARD FROM THE PAST: Two Opening Day fixtures at Molineux – 47 years apart.
Throughout my teenage years of the early and mid seventies I could often be found, by the side of my Dad, at Molineux on the opening day of a new football season. Among the fixtures that loom large in my memory…
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