RIP Ron Flowers

[Doctor Doog]

My first Wolves hero. I also fondly remember five minutes spent in his company while he fitted a new handle grip on my cricket bat and we chatted about Wolves.

 

[AndyWolves]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1459248853929148425

 

[Tony Towner]

Must be really hard for Sir Geoff. Football's Barry Cryer

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Is he the only one left?

 

[Tony Towner]

From the starting 11 it's him Cohen and Bobby Charlton

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I still remember the shock of Bobby Moore being the first to leave us.

 

[Tony Towner]

I was still at uni then. Only 2 years older than I am now. Sickening the way he was treated by the FA.

 

[WolfmanOz]

He played before my time, but his record is such that he probably sits second to Billy Wright as Wolves greatest playing legend.

I did meet him once . . . My dad was playing at the Oxley golf course in a club tournament and I was his caddy (I was 10 or 11) and in the afternoon round dad was accompanied by Ron.

He was such a gentleman and so friendly and chatty, especially to a star-struck young kid who did know who he was.

RIP to a great Wolves legend.

 

[Jinky]

This was great -

 

[malta mick]

Going to matches as a kid in the early 60's when there was no sky sports and mobile phone apps, you never knew the team till they were running out - no pre kick off routines then. My heart used to drop a beat if Ron wasn't leading us out as it seemed we would be playing the match with a man short. Great days and fantastic memories !!

 

[northfield wolf]

I dealt with Ron when he ran his sports shop in Queen Street, nothing was too much trouble for him. A really nice gentleman, he will be sadly missed. I never got to see him play but my Dad told me how great he was, and Mom always said how handsome he looked.