Your first Wolves game

[darlowolf64]

Bolton vs Wolves, 14th May 1977, Burnden Park

Went with my best friend and his 2 brothers, all Bolton fans and in the Bolton end!

The game that stopped them being promoted and allowing Brian Clough's Forest to snatch the final place in the Football League Division One. The rest, for them, is history

 

[Sniffer]

Rotherham United (H) 1976/77 FAC​

FA Cup (Third Round) Saturday 8 January 1977 at Molineux (Att 23,605)
Wolves (2) 3 (Daley 11, Richards 31 74): Pierce, Palmer, Parkin, Daley, Munro, McAlle, Hibbitt, Richards, Sunderland, Kindon, Patching (Carr).
Rotherham United (1) 2 (Crawford 28 62p)): McAllister, Pugh, Breckin, Rhodes, Stancliffe, Spencer, Finney, Phillips, Gwyther, Goodfellow, Crawford; Sub Wagstaff.
Referee: Mr A Jones (Ormskirk).
Order of Goals: W,r,W,r,W.
Penalty: Awarded against Geoff Palmer for handball.


Can't remember much of it as I'd only just passed my 5th birthday.

Paul Stancliffe was playing for them!

 

[jd1981]

Wolves 0 - 5 Barnsley in 1991

I saw possibly the worst own goal scored I've seen, which I don't think has been bettered (worsened?) since.

Stancliffe controlling the ball into his own net, Pretty sure Barnsley scored with every attack that day.

 

[pagey]

Aldershot, play off final, shits.

By coincidence, Apart from sherpa van final, 1st away game was Aldershot on same day as Hillsborough

 

[Jinky]

Stockport County (H) 1987/88 - Wolves Complete History

Saturday 16 January 1988 at Molineux (Att 8,872) Wolves (0) 1 (Vaughan 67): Kendall, Stoutt (Holmes 50), Thompson, Streete, Robertson, Robinson, Dennison, Vaughan, Bull, Mutch, Downing (Gallagher 65). Stockport County (0) 1 (Worthington 48): Marples, Bullock, Bailey, Robinson, Thorpe, Williams...

wolvescompletehistory.co.uk

8000 odd with me and of course the majority of that stood behind me and for someone who had never been to a live game before the noise when we scored was equally brilliant and terrifying!

I think my dad was more frustrated by the fact I didn’t get to experience a goal/the sound that brings, then actually being knocked out of the cup by a very average Cambridge Utd team. I just remember finding it unbelievable that we were watching the players and team that, up to that point I’d only seen in on the TV, live and in person.

Cheers for the link to the starting 11 by the way. I could only remember Bully and Stowell as definite starters!

 

[Tredman]

No idea! Dad says it was end of the 83/84 season but can't remember the actual game too. My first real wolves memory was Bully towards the end of 86/87 season

 

[jd1981]

Home games against Cambridge in the early 90’s were grim experiences 0-1 in the cup in 91, beat them 2-1 a year later in one of the most dirtiest disjointed games I’ve ever seen the in 93 losing 1-2 with them going down and being dreadful but still managing a very late winner.

 

[leedswolf]

Pretty sure Barnsley scored with every attack that day.

Near enough yes. I worked at a place just outside Barnsley atm. Monday morning was a gas...

 

[leedswolf]

My first game; December 1963 Stoke City vs Wolves. My dad was a Stoke City fan and we sat in the Boothen Road stand.

 

[SLA]

Away at Aldershot. 30th August 1986. Won 2-1.

Memory is hazy but it must have been a fun summer as Monsters of Rock was that month also.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Thats a great website Kenny - thanks for sharing. Just looked up my first game, a bit of a non-event nil-nil versus Palace. Keith Curle's 100th appearance for us apparently!

Crystal Palace (H) 1998/99 - Wolverhampton Wanderers

Saturday 10 April 1999 at Molineux (Att 23,663) Wolves (0) 0: Stowell, Muscat, Gilkes (Naylor 72), Sedgley, Richards, Curle, Robinson, Emblen, Flo, Connolly (Corica 72), Osborn; Sub Atkins. Crystal Palace (0) 0: Miller, Sun (Frampton 74), Petric, Austin, Dyer, Thomson, Foster, Fan, McKenzie...

wolvescompletehistory.co.uk

 

[EpsomWolf]

Wolves 2 - 0 Man Utd.

A bit of Googling says 16th Sept 1972. The Doog and King John.

My dad took me to most games that season so there are vague memories of a couple before that, but that’s the first I remember mostly because of the build up and hype surrounding Georgie Best.

 

[Walnut]

1954 Wolves v Honved. I was 8 yes old, my Dad took me.

 

[Johnny75]

Wolves 0 - 5 Barnsley in 1991

I saw possibly the worst own goal scored I've seen, which I don't think has been bettered (worsened?) since.

Paul Stancliffe tripping over himself and bobbling it in?

 

[Lupo]

Wolves vs Southampton on Boxing Day 1979, 0-0. Can remember very little apart from arriving in Wolverhampton and seeing all the gold shirts around and how exciting it all felt

Paul Bradshaw	Peter Wells
George Berry	Dave Watson
John McAlle	Chris Nicholl
Geoffrey Palmer	Ivan Golac
Colin Brazier	David Peach
Willie Carr	Alan Ball
Kenny Hibbitt	Steve Williams
Peter Daniel	Nick Holmes
Andy Gray	Trevor Hebberd
John Richards	Phil Boyer
Melvyn Eves	Mick Channon
John Barnwell	Lawrie McMenemy

My games were few and far between in the early days but I went to this one too, also 0-0:

Sunderland (H) 1983/84​

Saturday 17 March 1984 at Molineux (Att 9,111)
Wolves 0: Burridge, Buckland, Palmer, Daniel, Pender, Watkiss, Towner, Clarke, Troughton, McGarvey, Crainie; Sub Eves.
Sunderland 0: Turner, Venison, Pickering, Atkins, Chisholm, Elliott, Bracewell, Rowell, Chapman, Proctor, James; Sub Robson.
Referee: Mr J Ashworth (Leicester).
Landmark: 17 year old Stuart Watkiss makes his League debut.
Position: 22nd.

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[Johnny75]

Grimsby in 82. We won 3-0 and Andy Gray scored.

We were in the old Waterloo Rd stand and I remember sitting on the wall at the front. Very little else mind.

My first real Wolves memories are the 87/88 season.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

March 23 1958
Wba v wolves 0-3
My dad and big brother were mad baggies fans, took me aged 5 to see this my first game ever.
Fell in love with wolves colours from the start, and was shouting for them, which made dad and big bro laugh and take the piss, they werent laughing on the way home, that was me, a wolf for ever more.

 

[Del Woppio]

It's no coincidence that Jinky started this thread the day after Waiting List-Gate. A desperate plea for credibility

 

[AndyWolves]

Paul Stancliffe tripping over himself and bobbling it in?

That's the one

 

[White Wolf]

First game: Wolves 1-0 Colchester, 14 October 2006.

Think I was in the Billy Wright lower. Only thing I can actually remember about the game is Jay Bothroyd scoring the winner in the second half.

Colchester United (H) 2006/07 - Wolves Complete History

Saturday 14 October 2006 at Molineux (Att 19,318) Wolves (0) 1 (Bothroyd 51): Murray, Edwards, Clapham, Breen, Craddock, Potter, Henry, Olofinjana, Ricketts (Clarke 79), Bothroyd (C Davies 81), Johnson (Gobern 86); Subs Ikeme, Mulgrew. Colchester United (0) 0: Davison, Barker, Baldwin, Brown...

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