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London Wolves eNews - an occasional newsletter keeping you up to date.
News of several events
Iggy Cartwright fundraising dinner Thursday 26th June. Ian's treatment continues - he's holding up well but still needs all the treatments. This next fundraising dinner is Thursday 26th June at the Goodyear Social Club, and costs £35 a head, for which you get dinner plus Steve Daley and a comedian, while Ian gets more treatment to keep him going. Simon tells me that Mel Eves and other former players have taken a table and London Wolves are putting a table together - to book please call or email Stoo by next Tuesday 17th. stuart@londonwolves.com or 01760756278. After Tuesday you will have to contact Simon Dunkley directly to book individual places - Simon, Iggy's friend and fundraising leader, is on 07831210899 or simon.dunckley@dixonscountrywide.co.uk Sherpa Van Trophy Celebration dinner Thursday 25th September Molineux Peter Woodifield is looking to see if we can get a table together for this event at Molineux. Please let him know if you are interested. email: travel@londonwolves.com or phone 07885141227 pre-season tour ready for a reunion with Alex - he's got no hair but we don't care - Rae? Wolves play at Dundee FC on 20th July where Alex is now the manager. Wolves travel club have a variety of match and tour options for Scotland - link here http://www.londonwolves.com/html/travel.html#preseastour while we have been offered special terms at the Kilmarnock Howard Park Hotel - link here http://www.londonwolves.com/html/preseason.html#preseason (£40 a room including breakfast, Scottish or English pounds accepted)
The Chairman's flabber was truly gasted - even before the meeting got under way. Why? For pictures and more of what went on look at the social events page on the website. http://www.londonwolves.com/html/social_events.html#AGM08 Harley Bill won Roy's caption competition starring John and Paul (a signed new Wolves shirt). He announced he's off to motorcycle to Alaska - and you can sponsor his ride in aid of the National Deaf Children’s Society - please email him with a donation pledge, however large or small you can afford. If you pay tax please sign for gift aid harleybill@ntlworld.com Bill expects to cover some 7,000 miles and has already raised nearly £3,000. Fixtures announced What will Friday 13th July tee up for us in the Carling Cup? While the following Monday sees the announcement of the Coca Cola Championship season matches. (There will be a few changes in the first couple of weeks as Sky work out their televised matches.) Subject to our licence arriving, all the fixtures will be on the fixtures 2008-9 page on the website. Thomas Publications reply by 23rd June the attached document has an order form for the current Wolves books, and, you can pre-order and get your name into the Roll of Honour in the brand new "Wolves - The Complete Record" if you order by 23rd June. ps Garry's News is keeping up with the transfer speculation, but we have been told that there's no truth in the Dwight Yorke one! Up the Wolves! Happy holidays Well, it's a shame that Club Captain Gary Breen's moment of madness in giving away a totally unnecessary free kick should just about throw away the season in the 94th against the Tractor Boys (now they can prove me wrong with 3 wins!). Don't forget, before the summer finishes we'll have the AGM - you'll get an email or message from Dave when the date is announced. In the meantime, thanks to the generosity of Rachel at Breedon Books and Kirsty at ILC Media we have two competitions to finish the season. Breedon have just published Waggy's Tales - not just an autobiography - but a collection of stories about events during his career written by Dave Wagstaffe - without a ghost writer and you can just hear him telling the story. To coincide with the Black Country derby on April 15th ILC Media have produced a DVD of the last time we beat the Baggies, in a stirring match at Molineux, with a goal from sub Jay Bothroyd. There's also a charity Wolves match with a Mel Eves 11 next Sunday at Banbury.
the competition question is "Waggy scored one of his 32 Wolves goals in a cup final but which one - the FA Cup Final, The Sherpa Van Trophy, North American Soccer League Championship Final, the UEFA Cup Final, the Football League Cup Final, the Texaco Cup, the Anglo Italian Cup, or the Zenith Data Systems Cup?" Go here to enter http://www.londonwolves.com/html/waggy_s_tales.html More about Waggy's book follows NEW COMPETITION 2 - BEATING THE BAGGIES March 11th 2007. Wolves beat the Baggies and leap frogged them in the table. Relive the whole 90 minutes with this great new DVD. The competition question is "Match winner Jay Bothroyd started his career as a trainee at which Premiership Club - Wolves, West Ham, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U or Newcastle?" Enter online at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/beat_baggies.html You may enter the competitions on line (you don't need to login) or by giving your answers to Dave Slape by Friday May 2nd. Where we have multiple correct answers a draw will be made and prizes will be available in the City Bar before the Plymouth match. One copy is for members, the other for non-members.
WAGGY'S TALES This is one of the best Wolves "biographies" I've ever read. You can just hear Waggy telling the stories... stories about his time in Gold n Black - from John Ireland bringing him in - on £35 a week, signing on Boxing Day 1964 and going straight into the team to play the Villa that day for Peter Broadbent's last match; through to his times running the Sports and Social Club, and Waggy's Bar. He tells how he - and the team - were taken around Los Angeles by his old Manchester born friend Davy Jones of the Monkees. He doesn't pull his punches - when talking about the domineering and obnoxious attitude of Bill McGarry - who wouldn't even let the players keep their Wembley tracksuits. He talks about the great Wolves players he played with - including Knocker Knowles, Dennis Law, the Wolves of the 60s and 70s, Doog's "This is Your Life", some "Crazy Keepers" including how Lofty survived being set up on Rye and Dry by Waggy and Mike Bailey. He talks about Wolves on their travels too, from LA to Europe to New Zealand. Included in the pictures are Waggy and Val and the 1967 team at our 40th Anniversary Dinner. If you don't win the copy, buy it. WOLVES ALL STARS - charity match geoff lines 'ere from www.soccerx.co.uk Football Fancast this new free service offers a half hour weekly review of the preceding weekend's action and rumours and thoughts about the Wolves. It's made by real fans, with the occasional WWLSC input, and you can listen on the web or download the webcast and listen on your ipod http://www.footballfancast.com/fancast/Wolverhampton/latest/ There's a link on our homepage. Unforgettable Doog - the DVD is still available at a member's discounted price or from Wolverhampton suppliers, http://www.londonwolves.com/html/doog_dvd.html On Probably the biggest event of the close season though will be the unveiling of a three pose statue of Gordon Banks by Pele himself at the Britannia Stadium on 12th July http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7193358.stm Unfortunately it looks as thought our season might end sooner than we'd hoped. It does mean though that you'll see the end of season WWLSC Newsletter, which, as well as Steve's match reports, will include a meeting Stoo and Stef had with Steve Morgan at The Valley. The major part of the website move is complete, but if you spot any problems please let me know. We've also obtained access to some match footage which is linked to in the match reports. ....and we mustn't forget London Wolves' congratulations to Roy and Ruth Eagles on their wedding on February 27th. Some pictures of the happy couple are on the home page with a link to more on the WWLSC member pictures page. If you'd like your pictures on our website please email them to me. Finally, it's Roy's countrymen at the Moli tomorrow night and we must also congratulate Dave Jones on taking his side to Wembley for the Cup Final. Dave was always generous to WWLSC and remains the only Wolves manager to take us up since Graham Hawkins working under the chairmanship of the Doog. Don't forget the home match against Plymouth kicks off an hour earlier on the Sunday at 2:00pm and the Fans' Player of the Season award will be made after the match. Up the Wolves!!
Hi Everyone Happy Easter, and well done to Andy Keogh for shutting up the prats in the South Bank yesterday with his 97th minute equaliser with an assist from Freddy. Meet the Players 2008 Stef has fixed the Meet the Players with Mick for Friday 28th March at the team hotel at 5:30pm. Please be there for 5.00pm as we have to sort out whereabouts in the hotel the meeting will be. The players will depart for their dinner on time, so please don't be late. Stuart will present the WWLSC Player Of The Season Award at the meeting to the overwhelming winner.....no need to say who cornered over 80% of the votes! The location is in Docklands - more details are in the secure area of the website (under "members diary") including a map and aerial view. Login here first http://www.londonwolves.com/html/login.html then click on http://www.londonwolves.com/html/members_diary.html Last year was one of the best ever http://www.londonwolves.com/html/meetplayers07.html Also, a couple of "Help required" items 1908 FA Cup Final material Of course, this year is the centenary of Wolves' outstanding second FA Cup win - 3-1 over Newcastle United - celebrated in the attached postcard. Newcastle, as a division one team, were clear favourites in their third final in 4 years but Wolves went ahead and stayed ahead in the match played at Crystal Palace Park. Wolves are planning to celebrate the centenary and are looking for memorabilia to use in the celebrations, especially the match day programme. Stooo thinks he may have missed that match, but if any of you have anything you could loan/sell to Wolves please let me know. EUFA Cup Final 1972 - help required The family of Bernard Shaw are trying to find video footage of the final. If anyone recorded any of it and has it on video please let me know. ITV certainly recorded the first leg, but we haven't found a copy yet. Sat 29/3/08 v Charlton (kick-off 5:20pm and live on Sky Sports) Travel for Saturday. Probable meeting places - the Market Porter or Wheatsheaf on the Borough Market, adjourning to the Pilot prior to the match. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/43/433/Market_Porter/London_Bridge http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/69/691/Wheatsheaf/Borough http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/10/1073/Pilot_Inn/North_Greenwich No official club trip arranged. The ground is about 5 mins walk from Charlton Railway Station. Trains run from London Bridge & Charing Cross mainline stations. Journey time approx 20 mins. Turn right outside station & cross over road. Take first turning on the left, Floyd Road & then right into Valley Grove for away fans entrance. Alternatively take the underground to North Greenwich (Jubilee line), & it is then a short bus ride to the ground. (Buses 161, 472 or 486). Hopefully you'll enjoy meeting the players the night before. More detail on the ground is here http://www.londonwolves.com/html/travel.html#charlton Up the Wolves!!
---------------February 2008 - yes, it's that time of the year again. As Stef is hoping to fix the Meet the Players for Friday 28th March at the team hotel, Stuart would like to present the WWLSC Player Of The Season at the meeting. Although there's always a chance that the run in might bring up a new hero (Kevin Kyle scoring a hat trick in every match through to Wembley perhaps) we have to close off the voting immediately before the Saints match (March 4th) so please either give your vote to Dave Slape on the train or in the pub, or you can vote on-line. If you have family membership - don't forget you have multiple votes. Matt Murray showed how much the players like the award when he was interviewed last week on Midlands Tonight.
------------December 2007 - Unforgettable Doog; December Newsletter attached; Doog tribute attached. please note - the Newsletter and Doog tribute are not attached here but are on the WWLSC Newsletters page (password protected) here Hi everyone Happy Christmas. Here's your Christmas present......attached is the latest London Wolves Newsletter (see note above), in two parts. Part 1 is the regular newsletter with messages from the Chairman, travel news from Peter, a tribute to Norm Deeley as well as Steve's match reports. Part 2 is the tribute to Doog which Stuart promised in the previous issue. Printed copies have already been despatched. Sorry for any delay in the softcopy version - I'm afraid I've been a little tied up by the Doog tribute DVD - Unforgettable Doog, and the printer again didn't provide a pdf file. If anyone's mail "bounces" because of file sizes I'll resend with a link. But, once again, a "tour de force" from Stef as acting Newsletter editor. Website Apologies in advance but the website may go off the air for a couple of weeks in January. The current service provider is not very good as well as being expensive so we will be changing ISPs. These things should be totally seamless but experience shows they're not. Cutover details will be on the site up to 4th January. "Unforgettable Doog" We've sold over 500 copies of the DVD and expect that over Christmas period to have reached close to 800. We have another batch in production - the WM collector centre in Salop St, W H Smith and HMV in the Mander Centre and Kevin's stall opposite the Wanderer have been the prime locations and we'd like to thank them for their efforts. As you know profits will go to Xpro. The DVD - just under 3 hours of Doog - is still available from me via email or from Dave Slape for £10 plus £2 UK postage. From Jan 2nd the price will increase to £15 plus postage. A discount on this price will be available to WWLSC members - details will be in the members pages. We must praise Merlyn Humphreys for her promotional activity - a series of interviews on Beacon Radio Gold and in the Black Country Mail (part of the Birmingham Evening Mail group) - copies of the articles and interviews will be on the Doog DVD page on the website/ The book competition: I was diverted to France over the last few days so couldn't close the competition so it will stay available until January 31st at noon. We have two copies of Dave Instone's super new book "Wolves in Pictures" to give away - one for WWLSC members and one for non-members. Just answer a simple question (see below) on the website or give your answer to me or Dave Slape. All correct answers will go into a draw and the prizes will be available at the Blades match on Jan 1st. More details below. The competition publicises two fundraising activities: - WWLSC special DOOG DVD Unforgettable Doog - SuperWoman runs New York more about these in this eNews. Contents
Neill - who WWLSC are delighted sponsor - is still second top scorer and nearly went top but Jay was offside against Leicester. I managed to avoid hearing the result while whitevanning around France so watched the recording "as live" and was delighted to see the substitutions salvage a point. As with QPR, though, should we have been in that position? (rhetorical question). Garry will bring transfer speculation to you in the next few weeks while the window is open in his news. Date/Time Changes We still have a some strange times for matches Watford away on 2nd Feb is a 5:20 live on Sky kick off. Baggies home is high Noon Sunday 9th March and the PNE Away match is on Wednesday 12th March Travel Updates Date and time moves are on Peter's travel page. http://www.londonwolves.com/html/travel.html We will have the January details up shortly. Wolves in Pictures by Dave Instone Dave Instone managed to update the book to cover Doog's untimely death before it went to print. It covers the post war period up to the end of 2006-7 season and has some great pictures. There's an order form on our site to order from the publishers or it's on sale in the Wolves shops for £17.99. But, thanks to Dave's generosity, you can win a copy of this excellent Wolves souvenir in our competition.... The question is Two Wolves legends died this year, Derek Dougan and Norm Deeley. How many goals between them did they score at Wembley. Hint: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Enter online at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/wolvesinpix.html or email your name, email address, and answer to Doog@londonwolves.com or give your answer to Dave Slape with your name and contact details. There will be a draw from all correct entries received by midday on December 31st. One copy goes to a WWLSC member, one to a non-member. We're running the competition to publicise the launch of our tribute DVD to the Doog, and to seek support for WWLSC member Phil Bant's fundraising for the Dreams Come True children's charity. Phil ran the London Marathon in April and New York in November dressed as Superwoman (see the picture). Unfortunately he was ill in New York, but still finished the 26 miles for his sponsors, even though it took him an hour longer than his London time. You can donate at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/marathon.html or www.justgiving.com/superphil. The Doog DVD is to raise funds for Xpro, an organisation founded by Doog to help ex Professional Footballers who didn't make the sort of wages seen in the premiership financially through events such as the Iggy Cartwright Dinner. Doog was booked to appear at a tribunal in Hastings for a Portsmouth player but his untimely death came the day before. Norm Deeley You can read our tribute in the attached newsletter Iggy Cartwright We had a message from Iggy which has brilliant news .... To everyone at London Wolves, have a great xmas and new year, thanks for all your support. All our love Ian Cartwright and family. Ps My youngest son Danny as signed for Wolves academy and as made me very proud father. iggy x Football Aid The charity, strongly supported by Bully who is now an Ambassador for them, is again offering people the chance to play at Molineux against and with Wolves legends. The date hasn't yet been announced for 2008 but I'll update the site when it is. You can pre-register at www.footballaid.com Staying Away? (from November) If you're planning to stay away for a match, you can get details of hotels near any League ground in the country - just go to http://www.matchhotels.com They get reasonable rates too. A reminder that we get good rates at the refurbished Britannia in Wolverhampton (details of both of these are on the Travel Page) Chatting about Wolves (from November) If you have time to kill, there are several on-line forums (fora?). The most active two are The_Wolf http://www.the-wolf.co.uk/ and Molineux Mix (named after the Express & Star site which seemed to be closed after pressure from the club, which was denied at the time) http://www.molineuxmix.co.uk (if you go to that one vote for us as a Top Site!). Gavin Hill's The Wolves Site is also a fan club http://www.thewolvessite.co.uk/ . If any of you would like a forum opened up on our site let me know but the previous attempt attracted one member! The Official Wolves Quiz Book (from November) This, with a foreword by King John, will be published in February. As soon as we have details of how to buy we'll let you know, but I also hope to get a copy to give away as a competition prize. It's been put together by Chris Cowlin and Phil Solomon. Class of 2005,6 etc (updated from November) Following the November newsletter, there was a nice profile of Paul Ince, Manager of MK Dons in the Times on Christmas Eve. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article3090359.ece Will he take over when Mick goes? Rob G found a trade magazine with an interview with Steve Morgan that said he didn't like changing management teams though. Doog DVD - Unforgettable Doog Is already in it's 4th reprint. Thanks to Beacon Radio and the Black Country Mail (part of the Birmingham Mail) a lot of publicity has been generated - all of which is down to Merlyn Humphreys driving this. The introductory price remains at £10 (+£2 postage) from Dave or me until January 2nd. A revised price for WWLSC members will be published in the secure area of the website. It contains footage from the 60s and 70s - the hat trick versus Hull, the 6-5 win against Frank Munro's Washington Whips, and Doog's goal against Brazil - plus interviews and appearances featuring the Doog from recent years - as CEO, that Kettering shirt, and on Question Time. It even includes a unique recording of Doog singing! We have included most of his funeral service (one piece with his sons, is, unfortunately not available). Running time is 2 hours 55 minutes so it'll give you something to watch on Christmas Day. It's not a biography, more a souvenir of and tribute to the Doog. The cost will be £10 + p&p and you'll be able to reserve your copy from me, Dave Slape or by sending a note to Doog@LondonWolves.com. Some of the video quality does suffer from its age, like most of us! Profits from the sales will go to the charity to support less well off footballers which Doog founded - Xpro, the International Association for ex-Professional Footballers. The DVD has been produced with Merlyn Humphreys, Doog's Partner, and with the support of Doog's sister Coreen and niece Josephine. Merlyn has obtained permission to include footage from the BBC, Sky Sports and ITV. Contents: 1 London Wolves Introduction Additional Doog information A Load of Bull - Special Issue Doog Tribute (from November) The special issue, significantly produced for the Hull match, a special tribute to Derek Dougan has sold extremely well, but Charles still has some copies. See a seller outside the ground or contact <aloadofbull@blueyonder.co.uk> or at ALOB, PO Box 3483, Birmingham, B17 9SF. Don't forget also that Charles welcomes Wolves related articles for ALoB. Send them to the same addresses. If you’d like a copy of the order of service you can download that from the London Wolves website at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/the_doog.html and you can see that hat trick from March 25th 1969. If you want to see the service, the BBC archive service has 45 minutes out of the 75 on their Black Country website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/regions/west_midlands/video/104000/bb/104482_16x9_bb.asx or you can see 1 hour and 5 minutes on the DVD. Up the Wolves!! Peter Webmaster, London Wolves and our shop is here please support ALOB – buy at the ground or subscribe
-------November 2007 - Doog DVD; Win Wolves in Pix book Well, a third of the way through the season and we've spent very little time out of the playoff slots with even a few days in third. You'll be able to relive those matches very soon with the next London Wolves Newsletter, which will also contain the tribute to Doog which Stuart promised in the previous issue. I'll send a link for those of you who have asked for softcopy, while the printed ones should be despatched soon. Wolves this season has been a story of super effort - Michael Kightly being the epitome of this - but not being translated into goals and thus some frustrations coming out. And that frustration boiled over at Molineux on Saturday when only London Wolves' sponsored player Neill Collins got on the score sheet (to make him only one goal behind our top league scorers!) and then a sterling effort in defence from the back four to keep the three points. Mick was clearly upset by the frustrated crowd, quickly dashing down the tunnel at the end and then making his feelings clear to the fans in the radio interviews. Unfortunately, as we've seen before, especially in the Hoddle era, as soon as the crowd picks up around 23,000 then the support for the team seems to drop off. And on Saturday it probably didn't help that we could only draw against our last two opponents while they were being beaten 6-0 and 5-0 at the Tractor Boys and Wednesday. On a high note(!), the Elvis impersonator was described by Robbie Dennison, who now reports for Beacon Radio, as the best he's ever seen. Anyway, you can read more on the matches pages of the website and in the magazine with Steve Ray's reports, coming to you soon. A new competition: We have two copies of Dave Instone's super new book "Wolves in Pictures" to give away - one for WWLSC members and one for non-members. Just answer a simple question (see below) on the website or give your answer to me or Dave Slape. All correct answers will go into a draw after the Boxing Day match at Hull and the prizes will be available at the Blades match on Jan 1st . More details below. The competition is to publicise two fundraising activities: - WWLSC special DOOG DVD - SuperWoman runs New York more about these in this eNews. And we must also mention today's breaking news - that Chris Evans (no, not that one) is leaving the Wolves Academy after 17 years with the Wolves. He has nurtured a string of Internationals - especially Irish with Sammy Clingan doing well for NI and Robbie Keane captaining Ireland and becoming their all time leading scorer - as well as Welsh number 1 Wayne Hennessey and England's Joleon Lescott. Chris has accepted the first team coaching job under Gary Megson at Bolton Wanderers. We're grateful for all Chris has done to keep the youth coming through, and let's hope they can repay him next season by thrashing Bolton! Good Luck Chris. Contents
Neill has now scored the winner in both the Coventry (94th minute!) and Barnsley (13th minute) putting him one behind Freddy Eastwood and Michael Kightly in the League. WWLSC are delighted to be Neill's kit sponsor and send him our warmest congratulations. Oh, by the way, he and Kevin Foley did a superb job against Saints' Nathan Dyer and Bradley Wright Phillips last week at St Mary's. If you want to see the "highlights" go to U-Tube at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=A9tYT8hq60c If you can't see the pictures of Neill, Superwoman etc please look at the on-line edition here http://www.londonwolves.com/html/enews.html Date/Time Changes Don't forget we now have a series of strange times for matches Baggies away is high Noon Sunday 25th Colchester home is Wednesday 28th Home against Burnley and Leicester are both kicking off at 17:20 for Sky Sports (Saturdays 8th and 22nd December) Travel Updates These date and time moves are on Peter's travel page. http://www.londonwolves.com/html/travel.html Wolves in Pictures by Dave Instone Dave Instone managed to update the book to cover Doog's untimely death before it went to print. It covers the post war period up to the end of 2006-7 season and has some great pictures. There's an order form on our site to order from the publishers or it's on sale in the Wolves shops for £17.99. But, thanks to Dave's generosity, you can win a copy of this excellent Wolves souvenir in our competition.... The question is Two Wolves legends died this year, Derek Dougan and Norm Deeley. How many goals between them did they score at Wembley. Hint: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Enter online at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/wolvesinpix.html or email your name, email address, and answer to Doog@londonwolves.com or give your answer to Dave Slape with your name and contact details. There will be a draw from all correct entries received by 7:00pm on Boxing Day (Hull away). One copy goes to a WWLSC member, one to a non-member. We're running the competition to publicise the launch of our tribute DVD to the Doog, and to seek support for WWLSC member Phil Bant's fundraising for the Dreams Come True children's charity. Phil ran the London Marathon in April and New York in November dressed as Superwoman (see the picture). Unfortunately he was ill in New York, but still finished the 26 miles for his sponsors, even though it took him an hour longer than his London time. You can donate at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/marathon.html or www.justgiving.com/superphil. The Doog DVD is to raise funds for Xpro, an organisation founded by Doog to help ex Professional Footballers who didn't make the sort of wages seen in the premiership financially through events such as the Iggy Cartwright Dinner. Doog was booked to appear at a tribunal in Hastings for a Portsmouth player but his untimely death came the day before. Norm Deeley We were saddened to learn that Norm had been found dead at his home - which at been his mother's house. He was known as "the diminutive winger" who took Blackburn Rovers apart in the 1960 Cup Final forcing the own goal (see picture) which started our scoring and then scored the rest himself. He starred for Wolves throughout the title winning 50s also won two England caps. There are plans to name the playing fields where he coached youngsters after him. Wolves' CEO led the attendance at the funeral service. Profile here http://www.londonwolves.com/html/player_profiles.html Iggy Cartwright We heard from Iggy's fundraising leader, Simon Dunkley recently. I'm sure you'll all be delight to hear that a local businessman (Chris Massey) who runs large fundraising events has committed all their funds to Iggy - some £16,000! And the drugs are helping Ian to live in a relatively stable condition at the moment. Thanks to all who have supported him. Football Aid The charity, strongly supported by Bully who is now an Ambassador for them, is again offering people the chance to play at Molineux against and with Wolves legends. The date hasn't yet been announced for 2008 but I'll update the site when it is. You can pre-register at www.footballaid.com Staying Away? If you're planning to stay away for a match, you can get details of hotels near any League ground in the country - just go to http://www.matchhotels.com They get reasonable rates too. A reminder that we get good rates at the refurbished Britannia in Wolverhampton (details of both of these are on the Travel Page) Chatting about Wolves If you have time to kill, there are several on-line forums (fora?). The most active two are The_Wolf http://www.the-wolf.co.uk/ and Molineux Mix (named after the Express & Star site which seemed to be closed after pressure from the club, which was denied at the time) http://www.molineuxmix.co.uk (if you go to that one vote for us as a Top Site!). Gavin Hill's The Wolves Site is also a fan club http://www.thewolvessite.co.uk/ . If any of you would like a forum opened up on our site let me know but the previous attempt attracted one member! The Official Wolves Quiz Book This, with a foreword by King John, will be published in February. As soon as we have details of how to buy we'll let you know, but I also hope to get a copy to give away as a competition prize. It's been put together by Chris Cowlin and Phil Solomon. Class of 2005,6 etc Just in passing, it seems ages ago that Rohan Ricketts was at the club, but he made a return appearance with Barnsley, while Darren Anderton has settled on the South Coast with Bournemouth. They drew Paul Ince's League leading MK Dons in the Johnsons Paint trophy quarter final and faced Keith Andrews - the club's captain and leading scorer! - Jemal Johnson, and Colin Cameron. Shame the Dons are out of the FA Cup - drawing Wolves in the third round would have been interesting. Alex Rae is player/manager at Dundee, while Mark Kennedy is still at the Palace. The Camarat is on loan at West Ham from Wigan. Nayls is still playing Champions League football with Celtic, while Kenny Miller (blamed for getting Nayls to Celtic at the time) has joined Derby County, but will be hoping to do it again for Scotland against the Azzuri. Top mover of course is Joleon Lescott, one of only two London Wolves Players of The Season to have won the trophy 3 times now, has been capped for England and is one of Everton's favourite players. Doog DVD Is almost complete and should be available before Christmas. It contains footage from the 60s and 70s - the hat trick versus Hull, the 6-5 win against Frank Munro's Washington Whips, and Doog's goal against Brazil - plus interviews and appearances featuring the Doog from recent years - as CEO, that Kettering shirt, and on Question Time. It even includes a unique recording of Doog singing! We have included most of his funeral service (one piece with his sons, is, unfortunately not available). Running time is 2 hours 55 minutes so it'll give you something to watch on Christmas Day. It's not a biography, more a souvenir of and tribute to the Doog. The cost will be £10 + p&p and you'll be able to reserve your copy from me, Dave Slape or by sending a note to Doog@LondonWolves.com. Some of the video quality does suffer from its age, like most of us! Profits from the sales will go to the charity to support less well off footballers which Doog founded - Xpro, the International Association for ex-Professional Footballers. The DVD has been produced with Merlyn Humphreys, Doog's Partner, and with the support of Doog's sister Coreen and niece Josephine. Merlyn has obtained permission to include footage from the BBC, Sky Sports and ITV. Contents: 1 London Wolves Introduction Additional Doog information A Load of Bull - Special Issue Doog Tribute The special issue, significantly produced for the Hull match, a special tribute to Derek Dougan has sold extremely well, but Charles still has some copies. See a seller outside the ground or contact <aloadofbull@blueyonder.co.uk> or at ALOB, PO Box 3483, Birmingham, B17 9SF. Don't forget also that Charles welcomes Wolves related articles for ALoB. Send them to the same addresses. If you’d like a copy of the order of service you can download that from the London Wolves website at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/the_doog.html and you can see that hat trick from March 25th 1969. If you want to see the service, the BBC archive service has 45 minutes out of the 75 on their Black Country website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/regions/west_midlands/video/104000/bb/104482_16x9_bb.asx or you can see 1hour and 5 minutes on the DVD. Finally, I've had a few problems with the website (the ticker-news just stopped for example) but the refurbishment is continuing. Apologies for any inconvenience. Up the Wolves!! Peter Webmaster, London Wolves
--------August 2007 - Doog, funeral and tributes; Callum meets Matt Murray, Stef, AGM mins------- Hi everyone at last the season has started again, even if the live televised match didn't give us the result we needed.... but there's scope to emulate the Royals from two seasons ago especially after Sunday's gritty performance against the Owls! I thought Seyi's flick for the first goal against Watford was worthy of the Doog himself, who was saluted before the match. The announcer only got to "323 appearances and 123 goals" before the team and crowd were applauding....
A Load of Bull - Special Issue Doog Tribute The next issue, hopefully and significantly planned for the Hull match, will be a special tribute to Derek Dougan. If you'd like to contribute to this special issue then send your material to Charles Ross by September 3rd by email or royalmail From: aloadofbull <aloadofbull@blueyonder.co.uk> Send your submissions to this email or via snailmail at ALOB, PO Box 3483, Birmingham, B17 9SF Doog Funeral & Tributes Dave Hodges, Dave Slape, Robert Goddard, Alan Taylor and I attended the funeral service to represent London Wolves, while Irish member, and friend of Doog's, Vinny Coates flew in from Dublin that morning and was interviewed on BBC Midlands Today. You can see more of the funeral - over half of it is available as a webcast from the BBC. There is a link to that and other footage on our Doog page together with your tributes plus a short video of that debut hat trick Doog arrived in Wolverhampton in March 1967. At the time I was co-editing the college newspaper, The Marble, and a couple of the budding journalists had been hanging around Molineux hoping to interview one of the stars when they found this “tall thin guy walking round trying to find his way in”. Like all good hacks, they offered to show him the way in return for an interview. And the Doog, gracious as ever, gave them one. This exclusive was reprinted in the Express & Star as that week on March 16th Ronnie Allen signed Doog for £50,000. Two days later he was away at Plymouth, but, curiosity aroused, I had to go to the ground to see the home debut. That hat trick and one from Knocker sealed a 4-0 win on the way to promotion. Since I’d seen him arrive, I had to see him leave too. Doog made a spectacular arrival at the church in a gold and black coffin, with the Wolves emblem “Doog” and number 10 (although he started as #9 of course) – anyone who says he didn’t care about the Wolves proved wrong there and then. His coffin carried wreaths from Merlyn in Northern Ireland colours and in gold and black from WWLSC. Doog fell in love with Wolverhampton – he died at home in Tettenhall – so it was appropriate to start with “Bring him Home” from Les Miz. His pallbearers were his brother Dale, Phil Nicholls, sons Alex and Nick and former Wolves Vice Chairman Doug Hope plus our best winger ever, Dave Wagstaffe. Waggy said that, “of course, he’d volunteered to play left wing” (from where he’d supplied many of Doog’s goals), but on realising that the other pallbearers were taller and all the weight would be on him “dropped back into midfield”. Just eighteen months earlier Doog had carried his friend George Best to his grave – saying “George Best carried so many teams I was in that it was a pleasure to carry him today.” Typical of Doog’s generous spirit and wit. Chief minder inside the church was Frank Munro, who told the story of a Scotland v NI match, when the Doog went in hard on him. “He chased me for 20 yards and just hacked me down. Hey, Doog, what’re you doing, we’ve got a big game against Arsenal on Saturday?” “Matey, there’s no friends in this game” was Derek’s reply. This was a funeral which clearly was a celebration of his life with a packed church inside and out. Nick Owen, BBC WM, told how Doog had befriended him and helped him as a young journalist, and Wolves’ mighty skipper of the 70s, Mike Bailey described his career and impact on the team. From Terry Conroy – his great friend at Stoke City – who talked about how easy it was Doog and Peter Dobing to “pull the birds” at Blackpool with Doog’s Jag, of the All Ireland match against Brazil at the height of The Troubles, and of Doog being the original skinhead when he shaved his head at Aston Villa. Terry concluded with “Finally I can see him up there with St Peter at the Pearly Gates. Peter would welcome Doog ‘cos he’d know him, wouldn’t he, who wouldn’t? He’d say ‘these are the terms of the contract for entering the Kingdom’. Doog would say ‘Wait, now I tell you Peter, that’s not the way to do it. You listen to me and you won’t go far wrong. I won’t lead you astray’”. Villa’s current manager, Martin O’Neill, also a player in that match against Brazil, represented the people of Northern Ireland – and spoke of how extraordinary the iconoclastic Doog was, although claiming he called him Seamus! “Abide with Me” and “Danny Boy” were sung with gusto inside and outside the church, and a recording of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” was followed from outside by “What’s his name – Dougan, What’s his name – Dougan” and “Hey Doog” (to Hey Jude) before Doog’s partner Merlyn Humphreys spoke her own tribute… Unforgettable Doog (follows this) and followed by Nat King Cole’s original of the song he loved to sing – yes, he was a singer too. Then it was a stirring composition introduced by Doog’s son Nick and written and performed by Doog’s elder son Alex called “Praise the Lord” – in the churchlight Nick, unnervingly, looked just like Doog himself standing there. The Rev’d David Frith talked of Doog’s thoughtfulness, kindness, and generosity and his role in improving the life of footballers everywhere who worked in a different economic climate so different from today's. In the 60s and 70s the names of Derek Dougan and Wolverhampton Wanderers were inseparable and Wolverhampton became his home. He was hugely proud of his Belfast roots but deeply pained by the hatreds and tragedies of his homeland. “I believe he was an unsung hero of peace and reconciliation” he said. And then it was time for Doog’s last journey, with one last farewell to Molineux. Was it just amazing timing that the front and inside pages of the E&S carried the Doog story, while the back page announced that another prolific striker Freddy Eastwood had signed. Wolves were represented by Manager Mick McCarthy, VP Rachael Heyhoe Flint and Graham Hughes amongst others. An opportunity to see some of the greatest players of the 60s and 70s – from Dennis Law and Pat Jennings, to the Pompey player who used to clean Doog’s boots! Those there included Pat Jennings, Sammy Nelson, Johnny Giles, Denis Law, Billy Bingham, Martin O'Neill, Graham Williams, Chico Hamilton, Ron Wylie, Gordon Taylor, Terry Conroy, Brandon Batson, Mickey Evans and Chris Nicholl. While from Molineux, most of the players from the 60s were there – Lofty, Waggy, etc – the full list was Les Wilson (who flew in from Canada), Dave Wagstaffe (who acted as a pall bearer) Jim McCalliog, John McAlle, Derek Parkin, Phil Parkes, Mike Bailey, Geoff Palmer, Mel Eves, Malcolm Finlayson, former manager Sammy Chung, Frank Munro, Terry Wharton, Barry Powell, John Holsgrove, Dave Burnside, Ernie Hunt, Martin Patching, Bobby Thomson, Gerry Taylor, Gordon Cowans, Peter McParland and, of course, The Doog was there with us. Doog spent much of his life quietly helping others. The back page of the order of service has him pictured as chairman of Xpro an organisation helping formed footballers who have never had the security of today’s players. He had just, after months of negotiation, completed a case for Norman Uprichard, the ex-Arsenal and Portsmouth goalkeeper, to receive compensation for an injury picked up in the 1958 season. Most of us last saw him at a dinner he’d arranged for Ian “Iggy” Cartwright who played for the Wolves in 84 but now fighting cancer without help from Dudley health – so Iggy should have the last word “God bless you Derek, you were a true friend, me and my family will miss you and will never forget the help you gave us, thanks for all your love and support xx” We got a brief chat with Dennis Law who said that, on Sunday 24th he’d been clearing some stuff out and a found a picture of himself with Doog. He didn’t know he’d just died. Spooky, but how spooky will it be if AloB can get this out for the Hull game and Andy Keogh, today’s number 9, gets a hat trick, from crosses from today’s Waggy, Michael Kightly? Additional information If you’d like a copy of the order of service you can download that from the London Wolves website at http://www.londonwolves.com/html/the_doog.html and you can see that hat trick from March 25th 1969. If you want to see the service, the BBC archive service has 45 minutes out of the 75 on their Black Country website at http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/regions/west_midlands/video/104000/bb/104482_16x9_bb.asx Unforgettable Doog - Merlyn Humphreys Doog's partner Merlyn gave this lovely speech at the funeral:+ Remembering Derek You can shed tears that Doog has gone or you can smile because he lived. You can close your eyes and pray that he will come back or you can open them and see all that he has left. Your heart can be empty because you cannot see him, or you can be full of the love you shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember Doog and only that he has gone, or you can cherish his memory and let it live on. You can cry and close your mind and feel utter emptiness, or you can do what Doog would want - smile, love him and go on. Unforgettable Doog. A man of considerable charisma, presence and enthusiasm. What the heart has once known it shall never forget. We will never forget. and this was followed by Nat King Cole's Unforgettable which Doog used to sing. Player of the Season presentation by Callum Reed
Michael Kightly and England U21 (ed Kightsdid start for U21) Tonight, Tuesday 21st August, hopefully we'll see the next Wolves player to play for England at least for part of the match against Romania from Ashton Gate. It kicks off at 7:45pm on Sky Sports 2. Many congratulations to Kights. There is a nice write up on the FA.COM website (reproduced on WWLSC - just follow the links from the front page) talking about his rise from non-League football. Congratulations too to Freddy Eastwood and Wales' number one Wayne Hennessey for their call ups against Bulgaria, while Seyi jetted off to play for Nigeria and Andy Keogh and Darren Potter are in the Irish squad (Stephen Elliott pulled out). It's Morecambe in the Carling Cup; Baggies and Cardiff date changes So the victory over Bradford City gave us a home draw against "giantkillers" Morecambe (who have knocked Preston out in the first round). Fortunately Mick seems to take these matches a little more seriously than we have in the past, and with more competition for places, we're expecting a strong performance. The WBA away match is now Sunday 25th November at midday and the Cardiff away has been moved to Wednesday 24th October at 19:45. Wolves in Pictures by Dave Instone Dave managed to update the book to cover Doog's untimely death before it went to print. It covers the post war period up to the end of 2006-7 season. There's an order form on our site to order from the publishers or it'll be on sale in the Wolves shop from September 1st. Congratulations to Stef - Deputy Chairman WWLSC At the AGM the members voted to create this new position, officially recognising the excellent work Stef Leonard does for London Wolves, AGM Minutes these are the official minutes from the AGM. W.W.L.S.C AGM HELD AT THE BROCKLEY SOCIAL CLUB ON JULY 28th 2007 APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE: Richard Griffiths, Bob Venner, Sarah Knapp, Doug Pearl, Stan Armett, Peter Abbott, Tim Richards, G.Mastbraker, P.Grant, D.Bracher. CHAIRMANS ADDRESS : Stuart made a speech regarding the loss of our life president Derek Dougan “DOOG" and pointed out that it was a sad loss for all of us. MINUTES OF 2006 AGM: The minutes were sent by e-mail or in the magazine. SECRETARY’S REPORT : See attached sheet. TREASURER’S REPORT : See attached sheet. TRAVEL SECRETARY’S REPORT : See attached sheet. ENTERTAINMENT OFFICER’S REPORT : Unfortunately Sarah could not attend the AGM. Stuart pointed out that a night at the greyhounds is being arranged. Apart from that it has been very quiet. “Meet the Players” was a great success and the players gave their time willingly. Dave Hodges said he has a DJ console and would we consider having him do one of our functions. He stated that he had music for all occasions and this would save the club money. NEWSLETTER EDITOR’S REPORT : At present we have nobody doing the job, but Stef had put one together. Stef also thanked the printer for a new layout newsletter. There were the usual problems regarding lack of contributions from members. The magazine contains the usual stuff ,but we would welcome more input from members. ELECTION OF OFFICERS: Committee to be re-elected en bloc. MEMBERSHIP FEE: Proposed by Mathew Hawthorne to keep it the same. ANY OTHER BUSINESS: Stuart said there was one matter which would involve club rules. This was to install Mr Stefan Leonard as Deputy Chairman, so that he could represent W.W.L.S.C when Stuart was unavailable. This would mean changing rule 24. Proposed by D.Hodges and seconded by Mathew Hawthorne. This proposal was accepted by the members. There being no other business, the chairman closed the meeting at 17.35pm. SECRETARY’S REPORT
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----------------July 2007 - Match reports Dec 06 - May 07, Meet the players--------------------- Hi everyone
Well the last two weeks were rather overshadowed by the Doog’s sudden and unexpected death. Our thoughts are with Merlyn, Nick, Alexander and Jutta and young Alex. London Wolves attended the service and wake, and reports are on the website. Merlyn told us that she had decided to place her wreath in green and white for NI and ours in Gold and Black on th |
NEW COMPETITION 1 - WAGGY'S TALES 
We expect to rerun both competitions during the play offs and August but if you can't wait that long to get your hands on the book or the DVD then ordering instructions are on the page you are returned to after entering the competition (there are special offers on other Wolves DVDs from ILC so make sure you follow the link). The book may be ordered direct from the publishers, and it's available in Waterstones and should be in W H Smiths, although the Wolves store tells me they're not stocking it at the moment. Waggy’s Tales 
e of the biggest football memorabilia events of the year will take place on Thursday 19th June at Crewe Alexandra's ground when George Eastham's memorabilia - caps, shirts etc - to raise money for George and his family living in South Africa. Details here 
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sorry sight greeted Callum and Trevor and Peter Woodifield at Molineux before the Reading pre-season friendly when Matt Murray limped on to the pitch. But Matt was delighted with the award as the 2006-7 London Wolves Player of the Season. Many thanks to Peter Harrington for the picture and to Rachael Heyhoe Flint for all the arrangements during a very busy period.
