14 Aug 2025 22:48:43
Before the season starts and we become engrossed in whatever unfolds I thought I would ask, for the sake of levity if nothing else, what is the best performance you have seen from Wolves - not necessarily the best result.
For me - because I am old - I am going back to 1976, when Wolves were in Division 2 - now the Championship.
A 4-2 win at Orient - Richards hat trick and Alan Sunderland. In those days relegation, which Wolves had suffered the year before, was not the financial catastrophe it is now and players were v loyal - Richards today would be a superstar and would have moved to Chelsea or Man city etc after only a couple of years at Wolves but in those days he stayed at Wolves even after relegation.
Wolves were therefore an ocean apart from most of the sides in the division and not just this game but in fact the whole year was fantastic, ending of course with a title and promotion back to Div 1
For the younger ones amongst you I could have chosen any one of dozens of Nuno performances. You could just sit back and enjoy it knowing that Neves and Moutinho were totally controlling the game and eventually Wolves would score - but the opposition wouldn't!
But in the "modern" era despite the fact that I, perhaps harshly, blame GON, ( and not Jeff), for the shambles of last season my "best performance" of the "modern" era would have to be from his team at Chelsea the year before also a 4-2 but it could have been 6 or 7!
What would yours be?

1.) 15 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025 23:26:30
Wolves 3 - 0 Liverpool few seasons ago. We totally outplayed them.

2.) 15 Aug 2025
14 Aug 2025 23:46:32
Couple of favourites from back in the day
First being port vale away when de wolf got his hat-rick
Or when we beat Sheffield Wednesday in the cup and watching Chris waddle absolutely ??? himself walking up to take his penalty
Modern era ish when we came back and beat Leicester after looking dead and buried at half time
More recent beating the steptoes at the poorthorns

3.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 00:02:30
Second half against Leicester to come from 3-0 down to win 4-3

4.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 06:50:06
20th Nov 1971, Wolves 5 Arsenal 1. Arsenal were the reigning double winners no less and we were 1-0 down at half time. A devastating second half performance well and truly put the Gunners to the sword. Waggy's 25 yard strike won goal of the month.
I went to that 4-2 game at Orient and recall that John Richards only came on as sub as he was returning from injury. Orient featured an 18 year old Laurie Cunningham in their team and I remember thinking we should buy him after his excellent performance! Went to every game that season, even Millwall away on New Year's Day (no segregation, interesting!).

5.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 09:00:14
I can't remember the season, I think it was 83/4 away at Anfield, Liverpool 0-1 Wolves, the last gasp before the slump started.

6.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 09:38:51
Definitely the Leicester game. My wife and I were watching the match in a small quiet hotel in Belfast at the time with no sound. We had our tops on so easy to guess who we were supporting. Second half the sound was on full and the whole pub were Wolves supporters. Even the kitchen staff joined us! Absolutely crazy time! but loved every minute ?

7.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 09:45:51
Old wulf I've got to agree the 5-1 over arsenal was terrific and totally unexpected, it was a miserable day weather-wise but it gave me genuine shivers, even watching the highlights on Mod I was so excited, a lasting memory, along with of course the two 'unexpected' league cup wins.

8.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 09:48:18
Wolves v Blackpool at home 76/77 season. I remember Kenny Hibbitt taking a corner scoreboard side of the North bank end of the ground; out swinging ball to the just outside the 18 yard box and Steve Daley running in and heading it into the top corner. Memorable season that one.

9.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 09:55:45
1969 Southampton v Wolves notable for my first view of Peter Knowles.
Beat them 3 goals to 2, Parkin, Bailey and Wilson.
Dougan, Munro and McCalliog also in the team.
The old Dell ground.

10.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 10:01:14
Wolves 7-1 Chelsea. Early sixties, can't remember exact year. Steve Kindon ran "Chopper" Harris ragged. What a terrific game!

11.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 10:05:03
Some great performances mentioned, the Arsenal and Liverpool ones particularly but can I also throw in the 2003 play off final against Sheffield United and the night Wolves beat the all conquering Leeds 2-1 to stop them winning the title.

12.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 10:35:08
The 5-1 against Arsenal in 1971 is still today my favourite all time performance.
The 4-2 win against Orient featured a hattrick from Richards and one from Bobby Gould-not Alan Sunderland-also the game when Richards came on a sub and scored a hattrick was the season previous against Charlton in the FA Cup-the first player as sub to do so in the competition

13.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 10:52:29
A personal favourite as it was on my birthday is the 4-0 Europa league win against espanyol, although they aren’t exactly Barcelona it was a great night and a Diogo hat trick plus a Ruben neves thunderbolt. Feels a lot longer ago than it was .

14.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 11:02:39
I'm with old wolf, it's Arsenal for me also. I took the neighbour who first introduced me to becoming a fan in 1950.If I remember right Arsenal scored first. Later on it started to snow like the clappers. Great memories.

15.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 11:08:51
Another game has just come to my mind, not significant but one game I thoroughly enjoyed for reasons aside from the game itself was Bristol Rovers away, just after Xmas 1976, we ended up 5-1 winners (may of been 6)I think, (Christmas cheer),
It rounded off a truly excessive couple of days and I remember being so happy that night.

16.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 11:31:32
There's been so many, but had both my lads with me when we beat Sheffield UTD 3-0 at the Millennium stadium in Cardiff to get in the PL with Dave Jones. What followed after was not so great but Wolverhampton was buzzing.

17.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 12:15:52
I was there at Bristol Rovers, Abbey. It was 5-1 and circa half of the 20, 000 + gate were Wolves fans.Stopping Leeds winning the double was great (recall Bobby Charlton saying he felt sorry for Wolves after Leeds had beaten Arsenal in the cup final!).All our Wembley wins (even the Sherpa Van) and the play off final are memorable but, more recently, how about that 2-0 win at Man City in 2019 with Traore scoring both (couldn't resist the 28/1, had a tenner on)? Same again tomorrow please but seems more unlikely to me.

18.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 13:22:03
Wow - tks!

Great thread!

I loved the 5-1 and the 7-1 which was Willie Carr's debut.
However the 1-1 at Millwall was something else and I was also there!
Old do you remember they had a chap with a big drum - last ten minutes the ground was rocking and Wolves players were more than a little intimidated. Not sure any of them wanted to take throw ins as it was too close to the crowd.
However even to get to ground as a fan in those days you had to walk through a tunnel called something like the "cold blow" . Intimidating ground all round despite only holding something like 10k!

19.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 14:37:34
My first ever game Oct 1973 v Man Utd . 2 -1 win with one of my favourite Dougan goals . Some team we had then.

20.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 16:34:26
Can't remember the drum but what I remember most, Future, was that it was absolutely peeing down at full time (we were greeted by a blanket of snow that morning in Wolverhampton) and when we returned to the coach drop off point they were nowhere to be seen! Couldn't ask the locals where they might be, for obvious reasons, but we eventually found them after about 20 minutes and a right old soaking.

21.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 17:41:24
Arsenal 5-1 and excellent shout.
But I too will never forget the 76-77 promotion season. I went to nearly every game. Bristol Rovers 5-1 away another good shout.
For me though I would say the two games we played against Ipswich in the FA cup 4th round. Top of division 1 (at the time) against top of division 2.
We should have won at Portman Road but I’m glad Ipswich got their equaliser because JRs headed goal in the replay from a cross by (I think) Alan Sunderland will live in my memory forever. I don’t think the game was televised which in a way I’m pleased about, just in case it wasn’t quite as good as I remember it.
I doubt there’s an afterlife but if there is that memory will never ever fade even when hell freezes over.

22.) 15 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 18:36:10
For me Future the first time I saw Wolves. I had been a fan since I first followed football, about 7 years old, 69 years ago. Living in East Kent there was the local team but nothing else. A friend at school was also a Wolves fan and we talked all the time about Wolves and followed the results. We had no idea where Wolverhampton was, but in those days going 10 miles from Thanet was a major event. In Summer we both worked at a bakery to earn some dosh, and he passed his driving test. Wolves first game back in the top flight was at Fulham, we decided to go in his ancient Fiat 500 his dad got for him. Driving in London was terrifying but we made it and watched Waggy destroy Fulham's defence. We loved it as Wolves won, standing with a lot of great people with strange accents. Happily I have been able to see Wolves over many more occasions despite living on the south coast, and tickets being very hard to come by.

23.) 16 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 03:43:45
I've got to be with Moloneux here! I was at the Lec game with a Lec fan, and they were leading 3-0 at HT and I said to them 'you must be loving this' and they just said 'it's not done, not feeling safe yet' and the rest was history! But WHAT A GAME! ??

24.) 16 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 09:18:37
An impossible question. Would start with great memory of the week before the cup final in 1960 - Chelsea 1 Wolves 5. Then beating the Spurs double side 2-1 at White Hart Lane in 1962. Of course Wembley in 1974. Recent cup win over Man Utd on that special night at Molineux. So many over 66 years and looking forward to more, starting with Everton in a couple of weeks. Think I’m very lucky!

25.) 16 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 09:34:13
And of course the Great comeback at Oldham in the cup in 1967 when most of the fans had gone back to the coaches and missed two extra time goals! And of course the very emotional play off final in Cardiff.

26.) 16 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 10:05:37
My most memorable was when we beat Liverpool in the cup at Anfield.

Sadly work and financial constraints mean I have only had the opportunity to attend one away game so far, what a game I chose to go to!

A day I will never forget, hopefully get to make a few more away trips in the near future!

Looking forward to today, no matter the result it will be nice to see the Molineux rocking again and the boys back on the pitch for what will no doubt be another rollercoaster of a season!

FWAW

27.) 16 Aug 2025
16 Aug 2025 20:32:47
Thank you everyone for a wonderful thread. It seems there are quite a few of us in our 60s and even older on here and it is always good to relive those memories.
Fingers crossed that in 10, 20 or even 30 years we will all be able to look back on these years with equal fondness!