on this day 25yrs ago..

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on this day 25yrs ago..

Post by goldandblack » Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:31 am

Enter stage right.. Mr Steve Bull..

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Post by arana peligrosa » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:02 am

Don't recall Bull ever being at a World Cup but believe may have scored against Scotland in one of those home internationals they had in the 80s. Can't recall much else from his international career

Reminded you of Le Tissier to an extent. Both were promising players that could score goals but stayed too long at club sides with not enough ambition or ability to properly challenge for honors. Would be worth a tidy sum in todays market but then again don't think he ever played a game for a top flight club side.

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Post by BLUEBLOOD » Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:31 am

saint jude wrote:Don't recall Bull ever being at a World Cup but believe may have scored against Scotland in one of those home internationals they had in the 80s. Can't recall much else from his international career

Reminded you of Le Tissier to an extent. Both were promising players that could score goals but stayed too long at club sides with not enough ambition or ability to properly challenge for honors. Would be worth a tidy sum in todays market but then again don't think he ever played a game for a top flight club side.
Bull played only one game in the English top flight coming on as a substitute, replacing Andy Thompson, for West Bromwich Albion in 1986 .
Bull was capped 13 times by England, and scored 4 goals, all coming in the build up to Italia 90 .

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Post by goldandblack » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:04 pm

BLUEBLOOD wrote:
saint jude wrote:Don't recall Bull ever being at a World Cup but believe may have scored against Scotland in one of those home internationals they had in the 80s. Can't recall much else from his international career

Reminded you of Le Tissier to an extent. Both were promising players that could score goals but stayed too long at club sides with not enough ambition or ability to properly challenge for honors. Would be worth a tidy sum in todays market but then again don't think he ever played a game for a top flight club side.
Bull played only one game in the English top flight coming on as a substitute, replacing Andy Thompson, for West Bromwich Albion in 1986 .
Bull was capped 13 times by England, and scored 4 goals, all coming in the build up to Italia 90 .
its a strange story why he never moved on from the Wolves. I remember when he first arrived with Andy Mutch from West Brom we were in the 4th Div heading for Div oblivion, he scored over 50 goals 2 season on the trot and the rest is history.

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Post by goldandblack » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:26 pm

and 40 years ago .


Exit The Doog stage right.

a legend says goodbye

A true hero’s farewell isn’t afforded to many Wolves players, but Derek Dougan certainly got that after his testimonial in 1975.
Dougan blows kisses to his beloved Wolves fans before kick off.

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The Doog was chaired off the field by hundreds who had gleefully invaded the pitch.
Belfast-born Dougan had officially departed a few months earlier at the end of the 1974/75 season.
But fans had one more chance to say goodbye when an International XI was assembled by England manager Don Revie to take on Wolves at Molineux.


More than 25,000 turned up – but if it was goals they were after they were to be disappointed as both sides drew a blank.
It was felt that the potential England stars on show took the game too seriously, with Revie watching on.



Brian Clifford wrote in the Express & Star: “Fast-talking, long-striding, goal-scoring Doog took the centre of the stage. But what a pity the final curtain came down on Doog’s career without a goal from the array of talent provided by Wolves and an International XI.

“There was one moment of near-hysteria when a Doog header in the first half looked a goal all the way, until Stoke’s Micky Pejic forgot himself long enough to clear off the line – the bounder!

“But the night still belonged to Doog and his 25,658 admirers, who were delighted to say farewell in style to a man who has graced the game with his own particular brand of magic.”

Dougan, 37, lost a boot and his Wolves number 10 jersey in the melee at full time, with souvenir hunters showing no mercy.

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But he cared not a jot and, as he told the paper the next day, emotions were running high.

“Words cannot convey how I felt. It was a very emotional moment,” Dougan said.

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A hero's farewell for Dougan


“When I woke up this morning it was difficult to believe time has passed by so quickly with a club who are the greatest of those I have been associated with.

“It is possible I could go into management and on the other hand there is the administrative side of football to think about.”

Dougan had scored 123 goals in 323 games for Wolves. After retiring he continued in his role as chairman of the PFA, playing a key role in the freedom of movement for out-of-contract players in 1978, which was a forerunner to the Bosman.

And of course he returned to Wolves both as chief executive and chairman in the early 1980s.

He died in 2007, aged 69.

WOLVES: Pierce, Palmer, Parkin, Bailey, Munro, McAlle, Hibbitt, Carr, Richards, Dougan, Daley (Farley)

INTERNATIONAL XI: Shilton (Parkes), Gidman (Whitworth), Pejic, Thomas, Watson, Dodd, Worthington, Bell, Gerry Francis, Bowles, Hudson (Kendall)

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Post by arana peligrosa » Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:20 pm

Sometimes difficult to offer plaudits from another team's perspective but realize Dougan was something of a club legend there. Probably as big in the 70s as Bull was to become 15 years later. Said before one player I did admire was someone called Richards, a center forward of about the same time who was a goalscorer who would be worth an astronomical price in todays stupid market. I'd imagine William Wright was likely the most famous name you ever had there.

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