Wolves FPA News and Updates

Listen to the first few bars of ‘Nessun Dorma’, and the memories come flooding back. 1990. Time for Guru? Or time for an Italian summer.  Time for a wonderful theme tune featuring Pavarotti.  Time for England’s backstreet international, the...

For Theo Corbeanu, the story so far has been one of many chapters.  Not to mention many journeys.  At 23, he has already encountered numerous challenges in pursuit of his dream of being a professional footballer.  Challenges which have...

CROWDS flocked to Brampton, South Yorkshire, last Friday with many wearing the colours of Wolverhampton Wanderers. The Wolves fans were there to see an unsung hero of their history honoured with a blue plaque. Super scout Mark Crook’s feeder team, Wath Wanderers,...

A major European final involving two sides from England.  A win for Tottenham after a tight and tension-filled battle.  Speculation surrounding the future of one of the two managers. Last week’s Europa League swansong between Spurs and Manchester...

Gary Pierce made 111 appearances in goal for Wolves.  In the 1976/77 season, when the team bounced straight back from relegation to secure promotion back to the top division, he was an ever present in league and cup. But there will always, always, be one...

All at Wolves FPA are saddened to hear the news that one of the club’s legendary 1974 League Cup winners Gary Pierce has passed away at the age of 74. Gary passed away peacefully in Bury Hospice in the early hours of this morning after a short illness. Initially...

Wolves will round off a seventh successive Premier League season on Sunday by welcoming Brentford in front of a full house at Molineux. Nearly 40 years on from when they actually started a campaign against the same opposition, locked in the midst of a far more...

“What is a club in any case?” asked the great Sir Bobby Robson. “Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes.  "It’s the noise, the...

It was 40 years ago last weekend that Dave Heywood made his eighth and final appearance for Wolves, in a defeat against Fulham at Molineux. The left back’s debut, which remains one of the youngest in the club’s history at 17 years and 157 days, had arrived a few...

Wolves Former Players Association are delighted to be entering into a partnership with Wolverhampton’s historic Grand Theatre which will lead to mutual support between the two organisations. The Grand Theatre have become one of the sponsors of the FPA’s website,...

On the one side, the proud Wulfrunian who used to play football for Wolverhampton Schools, the ace strategist and communicator with a passion for positive change. And alongside him, the former Leicester, Liverpool and England marksman who notched over 150 goals for...

The arrival of Mel Eves as the newest member of Wolves FPA committee, is another sign of how the organisation is growing and having more influence across the local community. Strong working relationships have been forged with many local charities, such as Wolves...