What do you want to know about Wolves?published at 16:41 BST 13 August
16:41 BST 13 August
Have you got a question about Wolves or is there a topic you want more information on? Have you spotted a theme or trend that needs further investigation?
Well, this season we're making it easier for you to get in touch and ask - and we will do our best to use our expertise here at BBC Sport to give you direct answers.
Our team can call upon a network of contacts - including our reporters, pundits and other experts - to find out everything you need to know.
No question is too big or too small, so fire away using the link below and we will answer the best of them throughout the campaign.
Lopez believes 'unique' Suffolk spell helped shape himpublished at 13:41 BST 13 August
13:41 BST 13 August
Nick Mashiter BBC Sport football news reporter
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Fer Lopez
Wolves star Fer Lopez credits a unique spell in Suffolk for helping him mature.
The attacker spent three months in England in 2018 before returning this summer after Wolves spent £19m to sign him from Celta Vigo.
Lopez was sent to Finborough School by his parents when he was 14 years old to help develop his English.
While in England he trained with Norwich and also with the senior side Bacton United '89 - who play in the Suffolk and Ipswich League - before returning to Celta's academy.
He made his senior breakthrough last season, making 20 appearances, and his performances convinced Wolves to bring him back to England.
"It was quite unique," he told BBC Sport before Saturday's Premier League opener against Manchester City at Molineux.
"Norwich was quite far from the school so I did one month there and then went to train with Bacton. I couldn't play because I was in Celta's academy - and I also trained with the school's coach after school.
"The pitch wasn't that bad and playing with grown men helps you improve other abilities.
"It had a lot of importance [to me], more personal because it was difficult experience at first as I was without my family at 14, but it helped me grow as a person."
He remains in touch with Paul Grainger, who coached him at Finborough, and feels the guidance he received has paid off.
"We speak and he watches all my games," said the 21-year-old. "We talk all the time about football, players and games. He helped me a lot when I was in England. I felt quite alone and he helped me improve, football-wise, after school.
"If he sees me and I haven't played well, he tells me that. I don't like people who always tell me I'm very good and don't tell me the reality - that doesn't give you anything.
"If they just tell you, 'you're very good', you don't improve. I don't like to be around those type of people."
Wolves 'rolling the dice'published at 09:03 BST 12 August
09:03 BST 12 August
Dazzling Dave Fan writer
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Wolves' pre-season performances have been concerning. The team looks disjointed at the back and lacks energy and ideas going forward.
In short, we look miles off the pace. There is some hope with more new signings expected, but that brings its own concerns.
If those players take time to adapt, Wolves could be left playing catch-up once the season starts.
The loss of key players - Matheus Cunha, Rayan Ait-Nouri, Nelson Semedo, and Pablo Sarabia - has hit the team hard. Cunha and Ait-Nouri alone contributed 32 of last seasons 54 goals and assists.
Replacing that output is no easy task and from what I have seen in pre-season, we just don't look like scoring.
So far, the only new players are Fer Lopez, Jhon Arias and David Moller Wolfe.
Arias looks like a solid and quality signing - he has already opened his account and could be a strong replacement for Cunha. Lopez has shown promise as well. We haven't seen enough of Wolfe yet to judge his impact.
But the biggest worry remains at wing-back. Both right-back and left-back are clear weak spots and crucial for the style Vitor Pereira likes to play. Quality additions in this area are crucial for any chance of success this season.
Squad depth is another concern. If Joao Gomes or Andre get injured, Wolves have almost no back-up. Up top, Jorgen Strand Larsen has no clear deputy except Sasa Kalajdzic, who is just back from a long-term injury and could be sent out on loan.
This leaves the team exposed if key players are sidelined.
Wolves still need at least three or four quality signings. Fosun says it has recognised the importance of rebuilding the squad this summer, but progress has been slow. The next few weeks are critical.
If Pereira is not given a stronger squad, Wolves could face another fight to avoid relegation.
There is little room for error. Wolves are rolling the dice and fans wait to see where it will land.
'Light years away from ready' - fans concerned as start approachespublished at 11:45 BST 11 August
11:45 BST 11 August
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We asked for your views on whether Wolves are ready for the new season as they prepare to start at home to Manchester City on Saturday.
Here are some of your comments:
David: Wolves have been lacklustre, disorganised and creativity-free in all of their hardly challenging friendlies. There is little sign of a team capable of finishing outside the bottom third of the Premier League.
Baz: Unless the sold players are replaced with established, proven ones, I fear the worst. If the pre-season games are any reflection of current squad quality, they will be in a survival battle and yet another decent manager will go because of the lack of support. He will be in demand.
Allen: No! Very poor pre-season - they are not adaptable enough, they can't change from a rigid, five-at-the-back system to counter the opposition and so get overrun in midfield. Yes, fans want more incomings but we need desperately to be able to change our playing style within a match to outplay the opposition. Clearly the loss of Semedo, Ait-Nouri and Cunha place Wolves in an unenviable place this season.
Tod: Light years away from "ready". Embarrassing transfer policy under which we sell some of our best players each year then look around desperately for (inadequate) replacements at the last minute, as if the sales were wholly unexpected. Two points from first 10 games if we're lucky, and manager will have walked out by Christmas. What a complete, recurring fiasco. Get your money on relegation.
Gary: We look OK - if the season was still five weeks away. We just seem to be lacking in all areas of the pitch. We played like it was an end-of-season testimonial. Let's hope there's three terrible teams in the league this season, as that is the only way I can see us not being in the bottom three. Time for Jeff to put his hands in his very deep pockets.
Wolves lose to Celta Vigo in final pre-season friendlypublished at 17:29 BST 9 August
17:29 BST 9 August
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Wolves finished their pre-season friendlies with a 1-0 defeat by Celta Vigo at Molineux on Saturday.
Pablo Duran's volley just before the hour mark was enough to secure the win for the La Liga side.
Before the match, Wolves honoured former player Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva in the club's first home match since they both tragically died in a car accident earlier this summer.
'Wayne Clarke moved into my street when I was eight' - fan storiespublished at 15:58 BST 8 August
15:58 BST 8 August
You have been sharing your stories and photos about why you love Wolves.
Here is a final selection of your submissions, but do make sure you scroll down this page to see all the best responses from throughout the week:
Stuart: Imagine as an eight-year-old Wolves fan and Wayne Clarke moves into your street. The kids hanging out at the end of his drive, Wolves annuals and copies of Match Weekly in hand ready to sign. Through the highs and many lows of our illustrious club, the support never fades. Wolves is like Bagpuss - ragged at the seams but we love it. It's OUR club. Once a Wolf always a Wolf!
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Robert: I was born in Wolverhampton and I have supported Wolves since my father took me to my first game in 1959. During the 1970s, my father was a director of Wolves and I watched every home game from the directors' box and many away games from the directors' boxes of other clubs in the First Division. The attached picture is of the Wolves 1977 team and my father, Gerry Devine, is on the front row fifth from the left. I no longer live in Wolverhampton but still support the team avidly.
Toni: I grew up in west London. I was four, my brother was six, and we needed PE kit for school. My mother marched us down Portobello Road and into a shop that sold school uniforms... I came out with a Wolves shirt (black round collar) and my brother with an Arsenal shirt. That was it for both of us. I still support the Wolves nearly 60 years later.
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Eddie: I didn't want to support the same team as my brothers and my dad so I chose Wolves and have stuck with them for seven or eight years. I'm 12 now. My favourite player was Ryan Ait-Nouri because he had the same birthday and plays in the same position as me. I love Wolves and I'll stick with them!
Gossip: Wolves hold Van Ewijk interestpublished at 08:15 BST 8 August
08:15 BST 8 August
Coventry City want £15m for their Dutch right-back Milan van Ewijk. Wolves and Wolfsburg are among the clubs keen on signing the 24-year-old. (Coventry Telegraph)
'I start my 62nd season as enthused as my nine-year-old self' - fan storiespublished at 16:31 BST 7 August
16:31 BST 7 August
This week, we are asking you to share your stories and photos for why you fell in love with Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Here is a selection of your submissions:
Derek: When I was seven we were in the playground at school and I was asked who I supported. This was in 1953. I had no idea - there was no football on television and I didn't know any teams. Then I saw a photo of Wolves and they have obviously got the best kit and a great name. I've supported them ever since, even during the dark days when they were in the Fourth Division. You hear stories about people changing their team, but they aren't real football fans. A team is for life - as Wolves is for me.
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Steve: I was fortunate to be a Wolves fan as a teenager through the early to mid-1970s when we were just a few players short of a title-winning team. Great players littered that era but I loved big Frank Munro. His skill and his 'robust' physique made him like an E-Type Jaguar inside a Sherman tank. Dark days followed as we plummeted to basement before Sir Jack Hayward and Steve Bull 'finally' restored our status. Nuno Espirito Santo gave us more great days. I start my 62nd season as enthused as my nine-year-old self.
Jennie: My father took me when I was able to stand in the kids' enclosure. There weren't many girls so I always got to the front. I had five brothers but none of them liked football. We went on the coach to Molineux with crisps and bottle pop. I was transfixed by the players and crowd reaction and it's the best memory I have of my dad, who died when I was 11 in 1974. I am a Wolves fan through and through and so grateful to have shared that with my dad.
Wolves to pay tribute to Jota and Silva before Celta game and Man City openerpublished at 14:54 BST 7 August
14:54 BST 7 August
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Wolves will pay tribute to Diogo Jota and brother Andre Silva before Saturday's pre-season friendly against Celta Vigo at Molineux.
A minute's silence will be observed before kick-off and floral wreaths laid by senior members of the club.
Wolves' first game of the season, at home to Manchester City on 16 August, is the dedicated match of remembrance and will feature a fan mosaic, a minute's applause and a rendition of Jota's favourite song, Sting's Fields Of Gold.
A commemorative 100-page programme will also be produced for the fixture.
'It becomes really hard to separate yourself from it'published at 11:44 BST 7 August
11:44 BST 7 August
Nicola Pearson BBC Sport journalist
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When it comes to our love for a football club, the answer to why we do lies in "both psychological and societal" reasons.
In the first part of her chat with BBC Sport, researcher and co-writer of the Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom Danielle Sarver Coombs spoke about the part that identity and tradition play.
And yet when we are caught up in the emotions of a tough defeat or nerves of an important match, we can often ask why we put ourselves through it.
"There are psychological processes at work and physiological ones in terms of how we respond and engage," Sarver Coombs said.
"An example that I always give is when I take the train to work, I go past Arsenal's stadium and I feel literally nothing other than: 'Oh, that's a big building'. Whereas on a train to Manchester, I went by Villa Park and my heart started pounding. I got all excited and was trying to take pictures out the window.
"I had a visceral reaction to this place. We can't pretend we don't have that sort of physical reaction because we do.
"When someone is talking about a controversial decision and I feel myself getting wound up, even though I intellectually know that I can't control it and that it's just a game, my body doesn't know that.
"My gut doesn't know that and so I have this really emotional response and we can't control that."
A 2023 book titled 'Football on the brain: why minds love sport, external' suggests it comes down to 'an understandable and logical consequence of the human mind's natural inclination to find meaning through beliefs... It's a religion as far as the brain is concerned'.
But it not just about what is going on inside the mind but outside influences too.
"There is a sociological element to it because the community part is such a huge driver and benefit for us," Sarver Coombs explains.
"Sociologically, we are driven to be part of communities. We are driven to find our groups that we can be members of. Sport provides a way to do that - this sense that I was chosen to be part of this community and it's something bigger than I am."
As the game expands, unrest among supporters seems to be increasing, but how does that impact this ingrained love for a club?
"You always go through these cycles when the game is changing," Sarver Coombs said.
"Despite all the changes, the traditions remain so strong and it's such a huge draw that it becomes really hard to actually separate yourself from it. Even if you do, it tends to be a short-term separation. You get sucked back in because something happens.
"People don't want that change, but then we adapt to it and continue moving forward."
Browse this page to see lots of fan stories for how you fell in love with your club.
'It just became part of a glorious childhood' - fan storiespublished at 16:30 BST 6 August
16:30 BST 6 August
This week, we are asking you to share your stories and photos for why you fell in love with Wolves.
Here is a selection of your submissions:
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Laurence: I am an actor, born in Wolverhampton. Now 81 and living in Dublin, this is my 71st year as a supporter. Saw my first match in 1954 and witnessed that golden era of the fifties first hand. Peter Broadbent was my hero, a ball-playing entertainer who knew where the net was. There was something about that old gold and black strip that became so special. Every second Saturday was awaited with excitement - it just became part of a glorious childhood. I am privileged to have a named 'brick' in the Billy Wright stand.
Jennie: My father took me when I was able to stand in the kids enclosure. There weren't many girls so I always got to the front. I had five brothers but none liked football. We went on the coach to Molineux with crisps and a bottle of pop. I was transfixed by the players and crowd reaction and it's the best memory I have of my dad, who died when I was 11 in 1974. I am a Wolves fan through and through and so grateful to have shared that with my dad. Derek Dougan, Kenny Hibbitt and John Richards were my era.
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Jim: To begin with, I couldn't see what the fuss was about going to a football match. Then when I was about 18, my friends persuaded me to go and see Wolves in what is now the Championship to watch them draw 2-2. I was hooked and got a season ticket only to see them plummet to the Fourth Division.
Then came Steve Bull.
I watched them climb back again to the Championship and was one of the lucky 1,200 to fly up to Newcastle and see Bully score four on New Year's Day. I nearly didn't go due a heavy night before.
Until half-time, I was freezing but soon warmed up with Bully's goals. You can see me behind the goal looking cold celebrating. On the way back, I sat next to David Instone of the Express & Star and just talked footy.
Now I go with my grown-up daughter and son. Wolves is a club with great traditions and an affinity with the town. It does loads for charity and I will never forget Nuno donating £250,000 to the Wolves Foundation.
Football clubs 'so much more than scores and numbers'published at 12:39 BST 6 August
12:39 BST 6 August
Mike Taylor BBC Radio WM reporter
It was revealed by Wolves a few weeks ago that 94% of season tickets at Molineux were renewed for the 2025-26 season, which means I'll expect to be seeing many of the same faces near the press box when I turn up to cover home games.
Sometimes you can spot the families, and the different generations - parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren. Some stop to talk, at times to share a grumble, but others are defiantly optimistic: "We'll be all right if we win this one!".
Like all communities, there are inevitable changes over time. A group of ladies, obviously friends for decades, used to gather in one corner of the concourse close to the press box, clutching hot drinks. Last season, the group was down to one but she was there early every time, with her coffee cup, cheerfully confident that Wolves would win.
Football clubs rise and fall with their results, week to week and decade to decade, and ultimately that status dictates how they are judged from outside. The game, and the Premier League especially, now has a worldwide audience so there are many who faithfully follow Wolves from thousands of miles away who might never have been to Molineux, or even to England, and never will.
Their form of fandom is entirely valid, and increasingly relevant for the viability of the modern game. The Premier League would be much smaller without it.
But, looking and listening on the concourses, you are reminded that football clubs are so much more than scores and numbers. They are a community, drawn apparently at random from all classes and generations, united by one devotion. Like all relationships, it goes through times of strain - and faith can be tested - but the love remains. And when it matters most, at times of real trouble and personal loss, that community finds strength together.
A lady sometimes emails me during games at Molineux to tell me she is listening to find out whether her husband and son, both season-ticket holders, will be in a good mood when they get home. I'm sure there were some quiet evenings in their house last season.
But, I'm also sure they will be in the 94%, always hoping the result will send them home happy, but really there because it's Wolves - and that's where they belong.
Who does Opta's Supercomputer put in the relegation battle?published at 12:02 BST 6 August
12:02 BST 6 August
Opta's Supercomputer has once again predicted the upcoming 2025-26 Premier League season by using a model to simulate every match 10,000 times.
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After only happening once in Premier League history beforehand, and not since 1997-98, all three promoted teams have gone straight back down in each of the past two seasons.
Unsurprisingly then, Leeds, Burnley and Sunderland are ranked as the likeliest trio to be relegated by the Supercomputer's model next year - with the Black Cats the only team notto win the title in any of the supercomputer's 10,000 simulations.
Championship play-off winners Sunderland are also relegated the most often of all 20 teams, going down in 66.4% of simulations.
Their fellow Premier League newboys are actually deemed to survive slightly more often than not, with Daniel Farke's side going down in 48.1% of sims, while Scott Parker's Clarets doing so in 45.9%.
As for Wolves, they had a dismal start to last season but improved significantly once Vitor Pereira arrived. Losing Matheus Cunha is a big blow however, and the Old Gold are fourth favourites to go down according to the supercomputer - doing so in 26.4% of sims.
Similarly, Graham Potter's West Ham have sold a key player this summer after Mohammed Kudus switched to Tottenham.
Potter will back himself to get a better tune out of his side after his first pre-season with them, but West Ham are still relegated in 22% of simulations.
Wolves in talks with Dortmund for outcast Silvapublished at 16:47 BST 5 August
16:47 BST 5 August
Nick Mashiter BBC Sport football news reporter
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Wolves are in talks with Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund over the sale of striker Fabio Silva.
The 23-year-old is surplus to requirements at Molineux, with Wolves looking for over £17m.
Silva has not played for the club since November 2023 and was training away from the squad before joining Las Palmas on loan last season.
He scored 10 goals in 26 games in Spain and has also had loan spells at PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Belgian side Anderlecht and Scottish giants Rangers.
Silva was Wolves' record signing at the time when he arrived from Porto in a deal worth £35m in 2020 but has scored just five goals in 72 appearances.
'My son fulfilled my dream at Molineux' - fan storiespublished at 15:58 BST 5 August
15:58 BST 5 August
This week, we are asking you to share your stories and photos for why you fell in love with Wolves.
Here is a selection of your submissions:
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Phil: In 1981, my five-year-old son was mascot for Wolves v Leeds at Molineux. In doing that he had fulfilled my lifetimes ambition of running out at Molineux as part of the team. I had always wanted to lead out my heroes at the ground I loved and it was a real blow when I realised I would never be strong enough. So, when my son filled that void I was the proudest man in Wolverhampton. Happy memories!
Stephen: I come from a West Brom family so I am the black sheep. Willing or not, Dad sacrificed himself on the Molineux altar to please his youngest son. My favourite player was Hughie Curran, who scored two goals in the away leg of the Texaco Cup final win.
I travelled with Dad to his beloved Hawthorns. West Brom had just scored, Curran was substituted and John Richards came on. Kick-off. "Pass to Waggy [Dave Wagstaffe]," I shouted - totally ignored. Then, Richards went past one, past two and scored. The King is dead, long live King John. Thanks Dad!
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John: Although I live in Rugby, i've always been a Wolves fan. Don't ask me why - I just love the club, its history and our loyal fans. It was about 1963 that I went to my first game. I was 13 and you paid at the turnstiles. The atmosphere was amazing and although we lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace it never put me off going. I am now in my 70s and still go when I can. I made many friends and saw some fantastic games. Once a Wolf always a Wolf. The picture is of the old North Bank being pulled down.
Football provides 'connections' in 'increasingly lonely' worldpublished at 11:49 BST 5 August
11:49 BST 5 August
Nicola Pearson BBC Sport journalist
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'Why did you fall in love with your club?'
This week, we have asked hundreds of football fans across the world that very question and got hundreds of different answers.
Yes, the themes might be similar - born near a ground; family supported the team; watched a certain player - but the individual story will be unique to each supporter.
The relationship between a fan and their club should not be underestimated, with people ploughing uncountable amounts of money, time and emotional energy into their support for their team.
But what is that makes us love our clubs the way we do?
"A lot of it comes down to our identity," researcher and co-writer of the Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom Danielle Sarver Coombs told BBC Sport.
"We become part of this group that means so much to us. It becomes a way to find a community that you're a part of and to find a group of people that, no matter where you are, you could find a pub with other fans of your team. You have that kinship.
"In a world that's increasingly quite lonely, this provides one of the ways that we can have connections so we can have the feeling that we're part of something bigger."
Connection and identity plays a big role in someone's love for their club - particularly when it is a family link.
Many fans talk of being born into who they support - that the connection is so strong there was no other team they could, or would, have chosen.
"The great thing with football is that there's such a strong heritage component to it," Sarver Coombs said. "Often, your grandfather, father, mother or whomever was a fan of the team, so it's part of your family's tradition.
"It's handed down from generation to generation."
The uniqueness of football fandom is something researchers are increasingly investigating.
An article, external published earlier this year in psychology journal Frontiers discusses how football fans often follow follow teams with 'significant attachment and commitment, sometimes to the bewilderment of those outside of the game'.
"With football clubs, you have decades of tradition that you can tap into and it's going to keep coming," Sarver Coombs added.
"Players come and go, managers come and go, shirts change, badges change, but the club itself - the heart and soul of it remains constant. You always have that piece that you're tied to, so the longevity of clubs is a really important part.
"But also, that constant in-person opportunity to be present in a community space really sets football apart from other passions that may be transient or do not have that constant engagement."
'It's pretty cool to have that surname'published at 14:07 BST 4 August
14:07 BST 4 August
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New Wolves left-back David Moller Wolfe says it was "meant to be" that he joined the club.
The 23-year-old became Vitor Pereira's third signing of the summer over the weekend when he completed his £10m move from AZ Alkmaar, with his moving following the arrivals of Jhon Arias and Fer Lopez.
Not only is Wolfe sharing a name with the symbol on the club's badge, he also has an image of the animal tattooed on his arm.
"I felt incredibly wanted from the second I talked to Domenico [Teti] and the second I talked to the coach. Obviously, the Premier League is a big, big league, especially also in Norway," he told club media after signing.
"It's the biggest league that people watch, so when a Premier League club came in, and Wolverhampton came in for me, I was extremely keen on joining.
"Personally, I think it's pretty cool to have that surname and then to play for Wolverhampton.
"Me and my brothers have actually joked a little bit about it a couple of years ago, and now it is turning into a reality. I think it was meant to be."
Wolfe made 92 appearances for AZ Alkmaar, scoring four times and providing 10 assists, and when asked what he will bring to the team, he said: "I'm an extremely hard-working player that can run up and down the left side for 90 minutes straight.
"I give a lot of energy to the team, and I always do my best to help the team.
"I'm very confident. I think I have the qualities to play in the Premier League and to deliver and to perform. Also here, I will play as a wing-back, so that means I can have even more freedom to go on offensive runs, so I can't wait."
'I was allowed to pick a shirt from a catalogue when I was four' - fan storiespublished at 12:09 BST 4 August
12:09 BST 4 August
We know the relationship between a football fan and their club is a special one so, as we gear up for the new season, we asked you to share why you fell in love with Wolves and some of your favourite moments supporting them.
Here are a selection of your submissions:
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David: When I was only four years old in the mid 70s, keen to play football with my older brothers, I was allowed to choose a shirt from a catalogue with a few colour options. My brothers told me the gold I had chosen was Wolves and, being far away, it was via scores and reports on radio, highlights on TV, Shoot magazine and even bubblegum football cards that I became hooked on my team. I was finally taken to watch them in 1980-81 and I have to say that the past eight seasons have the best it has been since then!
Robert: My dad came from Ironbridge, the same town as Billy Wright. He followed Wolves through the 40s and 50s before moving to London, meeting my mum and starting a family in the 60s. He took my older brother (Chelsea supporter) and I to Stamford Bridge in 1974 as Wolves were visiting. I was seven and really didn't have an allegiance at that time, so decided to support whoever won the match. Wolves did 1-0 thanks to John Richards. So that was it, followed them ever since. Through the dark times and brighter times.
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Erik: It all started with the Norwegian broadcaster NRK starting to show matches from England in 1969, especially from the Midlands. The first match was Wolves v Sunderland and Wolves won 2-1. I watched this with my father and I have been following the Old Gold ever since. I remember I loved the colour and the mid-70s was the highligh. A lot of ups and downs since then, but I will always have this club in my heart.
