1958: WOLVES - England's MOST ADVANCED FOOTBALL Club? | Sportsview | Classic BBC Sport

1958: WOLVES - England's MOST ADVANCED FOOTBALL Club? | Sportsview | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive

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Junior Sportsview sends its mobile outside broadcast unit to Molineux Stadium, home of the mighty Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club, to find out what makes Wolves the most progressive side in Britain.
David Coleman is joined in the boardroom by manager Stan Cullis and club Chairman James Baker. He asks Mr Baker what he thinks the role of a football manager should be, and what the role of the club directors should be. Stan Cullis has spent the summer at the World Cup in Sweden, and is eager to incorporate some aspects of Brazil's extraordinary World Cup winning side into his Wolves team. Coleman then enquires about the qualities that Cullis looks for in his players, beyond obvious footballing skill. How many of the young players who are selected to play in the clubs various youth teams are likely to break in to the first team?
Outside, under the floodlights, Kenneth Wolstenholme is involved in a training exercise with the first team, getting firsthand experience of some of the advanced training methods that make Wolves the dominant force in English football. He interviews club captain Billy Wright about the players gruelling preseason training schedule. Wolstenholme then visits the club gym, where Bill Slater, Gwyn Jones, and Alan Jackson are doing weight training under the watchful eye of former Wolves player turned trainer Joe Gardiner. Finally, he visits perhaps the most advanced part of Molineaux, the physiotherapy room, where club physio, Mr Palmer is treating Wolves' South African defender Eddie Stuart. What treatments does Mr Palmer employ, and what does Eddie think of all these modern gadgets?
Finally, the chairman discusses plans for a high-tech new 75,000 capacity cantilever stadium. He shows David Coleman a scale model of the new ground.
Clip taken from Junior Sportsview, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 21 August, 1958.
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@brianmarshall1637 28 күн бұрын

I am a Lancashire man but I served in the air force at Lichfield in the late fifties and often went to Molinieu when this team was pla

@andydixon2980 28 күн бұрын

David coleman is rather Alan Partridge here in his quick fire questions and voice.

@kieronparr3403 27 күн бұрын

Who do you think AP was partially based on. Remember his sports "segments"

@andydixon2980 27 күн бұрын

@@kieronparr3403 Yeah I get that.

@terenceretter5049 28 күн бұрын

Surely not playing on Saturday night! Believe Wolves were also forerunners with games against Moscow Dynamo and Honved under lights in the early 50's. Days of laced up footballs and leather studs- gone forever like my youth too soon!

@williammohan9784 9 күн бұрын

Kenneth Wolstenholme was the greatest of commentators and his "They thinks its all over, well it is now" will go down in legend.What isnt known about him is that he won two DFCs in WW2. He was in the elite pathfinders and won both his DFCs for gallantry in over a 100 missions over Germany, when the life expectancy of air crew in Bomber Command was about 7 missions.

@jamesboswell9324 3 күн бұрын

Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end!

@davidcarrol110 28 күн бұрын

An era where footballers still had to pay rent and go down the local pub. Some of the players were playing with shrapnel in their limbs!

@heythisisminenotyours 28 күн бұрын

And many of them would succumb to dementia

@MrGranfield 27 күн бұрын

Eddie Stuart’s thick South African accent.

@BantamsOnline 27 күн бұрын

3:00 Interesting how some things change but don’t change. The manager here talking about training and making sure players do more work with the ball. In other words he doesn’t think it is of benefit doing lots of the other things like going for runs, and other “fitness” based sides of training, when all of this can be achieved whilst using an actual ball in training. Now me saying all of this sounds pretty obvious, yet Jose Mourinho made changes to the way Chelsea trained to do exactly the same thing. So clearly it’s not that obvious and depends on the preference of the manager/head coach. I guess it comes down to where you draw the line about what specific things can be achieved with the ball and what can’t eg strength which is going to require the gym. But stamina you can probably mostly do with a ball, so if you are running, you do running with a ball, whether that just means sprinting with the ball even if it’s just a case of kick and run rather than dribbling, it is still improving your ball control at higher speeds rather than not having a ball and sprinting. I’m sure there’s loads of other examples.

@Deearepee1963 28 күн бұрын

Hmmm. Don't think that first question was particularly controversial....

@horrortackleharry 28 күн бұрын

"We must progress to compete. As of this season, I have informed all my players that the prompt acquisition of a so-called 'sleeve' tattoo and brassiere-model domestic partner are compulsory."

@TrueFilter 27 күн бұрын

Did they build the stadium ?

@jaybristowe2346 26 күн бұрын

Unfortunately not

@davidburns6681 28 күн бұрын

If it wasnt for Munich...........

@macjam9090 28 күн бұрын

we were 7 points in front of Preston and 9 points in front of Man Utd and in those days it was 2 points for a win .. We were the best amongst a lot of teams who could win the league unlike now when only two occasionally 3 can win the league. Those were different times and they were only paid peanuts compared to today. R.I.P 6.2.58. Wolves ay we.

@peterdowney1492 27 күн бұрын

@@macjam9090 I actually did a check on all the games after Munich in the league and I found it nigh on impossible for Manchester United to have won the league that year. In fact the majority of the points dropped by Wolves were AFTER it was impossible for them to lose the league. They only way I could see Manchester United winning the league that year would be if simply the presence of those players would have made Wolves nervous. But that's a long shot. Wolves would have won the league and deservedly so. Superb side. But the future as a whole would have, with very little doubt, belonged to that side that died.

@macjam9090 27 күн бұрын

@@peterdowney1492 hey Peter we never know what will happen in the future that great Wolves side would break up in the next year or two and that potentially great man utd team never came to fruition unfortunately. But as someone said football didn't start until 1992 lol. Have a good week.

@peterdowney1492 27 күн бұрын

@@macjam9090 I'm inclined to disagree with you Mac. The thing with that Manchester United team that died at Munich was that it was a team of potential AND fruition. The average age was 22 (It's hardly surprising that great Wolves team didn't last beyond 2 years longer when you consider that Billy Wright in 1958 was 38 and 3 players were older than him. Actually, it might have helped had their scouting been better and they hadn't missed out on Duncan Edwards). There was for about 2 years no less than 8 or 9 youth team players in any Manchester United. The were as thick as thieves and had won the league in the two previous years, They had reached a cup final and been in a semi final of the European cup. When the crash occurred they had reached yet another semi final - the captain of the team they beat said they were the best in Europe - maybe, maybe not. But certainly they were the only team that Madrid would be concerned with. They had in Duncan Edwards a player who was probably better than Bobby Charlton, who, of course, was a team mate. I stand by point of 'little doubt'. Nothing is a certainty but some things are very close. This is one of those situations. And as already stated, it is as near a certainty that a team of an average age in the 30s - however good, will not last much longer. Cheers, mate and take care.

@danieleatwell7757 23 күн бұрын

Wolves would have won the league in 1957-58 regardless but Man United I believe would have won it in 1958-59 and beyond.

@AndrewStack-lr9fv 23 күн бұрын

How strange that Burnley,spurs,and Ipswich became champions of the then first division as well as wolves these teams were supposed to be the future none have won the league since

@edmundpower1250 Күн бұрын

I know it's mad. It's like going forward to 2090 and Port Vale, Wrexham and Southampton are cleaning up all the big trophies

@syedalamgir5838 28 күн бұрын

Now 2024 is this wolves football club is playing