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Ex-Wolf Watch

Add that to the list of footballers with erroneous s's we were discussing last week
 
Loads of the late 80s/early 90s Turner team faded away really early by today's standards.

Dennison - never played a pro game after he was 33
Mutch - left us when he was 29 and didn't even score 20 goals in league football afterwards
Downing - non-league when he was 32
Robinson - non-league by 33
Streete - essentially retired at 33
Vaughan - despite appearance (see below) was only 31 when he left us and barely kicked a ball after
McLoughlin - out of pro football at the age of 30
Ashley - non-league at 28
Purdie - never any more than non-league after 23
Holmes - retired before he was 30

Nigel Vaughan is at most 29 in this picture. Crikey O'Riley.

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Always fun if you watch 80s/90s Bullseye on Challenge. One for how hilariously amateurish Jim Bowen is (didn't register at the time) and two for the contestants saying "aye, I'm 31 Jim" and they look easily 20 years older than that.

I always thought Sid Cowans looked ancient playing for us (I was only in my early teens), he was five years younger than I am now. Now not to toot my own horn but I do not look like this.

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From that late 80s Turner team as far as I can remember
Kendall
Lange
Bellamy
Robertson
Streete
Thompson
Gallagher
Vaughan
Paskin
Bully and Gooding had one pre Wolves
Thommo retained his as long as 1994, had it when he scored at Ipswich in the cup.


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Jackie G is still rocking his tache, was probably born with it.

Speaking of how old the players looked reminds me of the famous picture of Bully and Thommo being unveiled. They looked about 30 but Bully was 21 and Thommo was 18
 
I had Paul Jones down as a possible tache sporter, it's very thin though if there is one.

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From that late 80s Turner team as far as I can remember
Kendall
Lange
Bellamy
Robertson
Streete
Thompson
Gallagher
Vaughan
Paskin
Bully and Gooding had one pre Wolves
Barry Powell too and Gary Pendrey who was part of GT's backroom staff
 
Yeah. Difference of pay over the years I guess!
Which office if you don’t mind saying? Wife works for RM in west mids - I’ll ask her if she knows him.
 
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