McGhee Gunning For Hot Topic

McGhee Gunning For Hot Topic

Trying to stop Arsenal is the test facing the rest of the Premier League at the moment.  It was also part of Mark McGhee’s spell at Wolves, and remains a hot topic of conversation, even though it’s now 30 years since he arrived at Molineux.  Paul...
Diary Of A Football Manager – With Karl Henry

Diary Of A Football Manager – With Karl Henry

It was about 5pm last Sunday, on a bitterly cold and dark November evening, that Karl Henry took his injury-hit Boldmere St Michael’s women’s team over to applaud the supporters who had helped them to a hard-fought 2-0 win against Kidderminster Harriers. Long-range...
Edwards’ Career Ambition Comes To Fruition

Edwards’ Career Ambition Comes To Fruition

Rob Edwards is the first former Wolves player to go on and manage the club since Graham Hawkins in the early Eighties.  With the help of Tom Lockyer, Edwards’ captain at Luton, Paul Berry looks at why this is his dream job, after an affiliation with the club...
Hancock’s Many Hours On Journey To The Top

Hancock’s Many Hours On Journey To The Top

You can take the physio out of Wolverhampton. You can take him to several other top clubs, including a Champions League final with Saturday’s opponents Chelsea, to the pinnacle of football aspirations with England, to working in basketball and baseball in America with...
Making His Mark On The International Stage

Making His Mark On The International Stage

Mark Williams once found the net for Wolves against Craven Cottage, just months before the moment of his life changed the sporting landscape of a nation.  After years of struggles through apartheid, South Africa were able to celebrate a triumph which brought...
Roger That! Eli Looks Back On Life At Wolves

Roger That! Eli Looks Back On Life At Wolves

Wolves and Burnley lock horns at Molineux on Sunday in a fixture already of mammoth importance for their Premier League fortunes.  For Roger Eli, fond memories of both clubs came at a much lower level. As Paul Berry discovers. *   Wolves, Burnley and...
‘He’s Got No Hair And We Don’t Care…”

‘He’s Got No Hair And We Don’t Care…”

Alex Rae was a fans’ favourite at both Wolves and Sunderland in a career in which, whether playing or coaching, he has never given anything but his best.  It’s still going as well, with the proud Scot possessing a hunger for the game which shows no sign of...
Halford Looks Back With No Regrets

Halford Looks Back With No Regrets

Former Wolves’ utility man Greg Halford also played for the most recent opponents, Brighton, and the next, Sunderland.  He recently called time on a career which had its up and downs, but his impact on football, on and off the pitch, could still be...
Harry’s Game For New Opportunity

Harry’s Game For New Opportunity

Anyone who knows former Wolves and Shrewsbury goalkeeper Harry Burgoyne will understand that he’s not the sort of character to ever feel too sorry for himself. A bubbly and ever-enthusiastic personality, whose willingness to contribute as a team player is as strong as...
Fore! Legends Take To The Fairways At Annual Golf Day

Fore! Legends Take To The Fairways At Annual Golf Day

Wolves fan and Sky Sports broadcaster Johnny Phillips rolls in a putt from distance, meaning he and Molineux Hall of Famer Andy Mutch have provided the points at their opening hole. “Don’t worry gents, the Liverpool lads will get it done,” declares Mutch, with a...