…Wolves & the Wrekin, 1884…

The Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, after seven long years of trying, finally manage to get their mitts on some Footballing Silverware & what Footballing Silverware it was!

The rockin’ Wrekin* Cup

Maybe not all that hard won in the end, turbulant Telfordians, Hadley F.C, torn apart, 11-0 in about the most one sided Final one could ever bear to imagine…

Jack Brodie (6)

&

…Dickie Baugh

Lucky Lieutenant Osbourne Young* (…whoever he may be…) gets to pin the medals upon those proud Wolverhampton breasts, as the 1st Shropshire & Staffordshire Artillery Band “…delighted the spectators with a high class selection of music…”

*…The Wrekin; A hill in the east of Shropshire…

St Luke’s ‘77, clad in school colours…

*…Those wonderful Wolves of Wolverhampton hadn’t always been such known, of course, to start with, they were known a lot better as St Luke’s F.C, if one can but believe…

Brodie / Baynton..

…what have they done…

Way, way back in ‘77, the extra-ordinarily young John “Jack” Brodie, a mere 14 years old at the time, can one believe, along with his similarly aged St Luke’s school pal, Jack Baynton, formed the club that will go on to win everything the English game has to offer* over their very many, mostly, Olden, Golden, years ahead…

…By contrast, the hopeless, hapless Hadley, however, are hardly ever heard of again…