In late 1968 Dougan even cut his own single, produced and recorded by Fritz Erste, a German recording engineer who had moved to the West Midlands. That side was unbelievably good at times, beating the likes of a great spurs side 7-2 at home and an excellent West Ham team team 8-2 away from home. He had won nine caps before he joined Peterborough in 1962, when the drop to Third Division football left him out of international contention for the next three years. After fronting a consortium that took Wolverhampton Wanderers out of liquidation, he served the club as chairman from August 1982 to January 1985. The brothers wanted anonymity, and were only revealed to the public after investigation by journalists.

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It was my dissertation supervisor who identified him: a tall, stern-looking man with cropped black hair, standing in the middle of the crowd at the Leicester College of Technology on Friday 10 February 1967, gazing intently at the figure of Syd Barrett, playing guitar a few feet in front of him. However when the Rovers were given their allocation by the FA the figure that appeared in the press was around 30,000 for each of the two clubs and the rest for distribution by the FA to member clubs.They went on to beat Arsenal 3–1 at Highbury in the FA Cup third-place play-off match, which was the penultimate match of an unsuccessful five-year experiment. It was our own inconsistancy that cost us promotion on a few seasons, but who will be able to forget the attacking players who made it into the Ewood folklore Tommy Briggs, Eddie Crossan, Bryan Douglas, Eddie Quigley who during 1954-55 season the team scored over 100 league goals. According to my relatives that were regular attenders at Ewood in the late 50'/ early 60's Dougan was indeed a very good player.

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Dougan, who had helped organise the game, never played for Northern Ireland again and he later said that he was in favour of an All-Ireland team. So I really can't understand what Dougan was getting at when he said "just lapping the track" That was not my experience. A former barman from the Leicester City social club told me that once the band became Family they were never invited back – the club's young goalkeeper, Peter Shilton, apparently deemed them "too far out" – but Dougan was intrigued to find out more about this strange music, and set out on his auto-didactic psychedelic journey. Towards the end of the tournament, the others rounded on him when he claimed that Brazil forward Jairzinho (who scored in every match) was his player of the tournament.However, he had a difficult relationship with manager Matt Gillies despite being the first choice striker at Filbert Street.

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Moore paused for a moment, closed his eyes, inhaled through his nose and smiled: “The studio reeked of early 70s male ego. The sending off by referee Keith Walker caused upheaval in the stands, occasioning the injury of 84 people. For Wolves fans of a certain age, the violence during Villa’s derby match against Birmingham City will have summoned distinct feelings of deja vu.

He was one of us and it was brace in the semi's against Sheffield Wednesday that secured our passage in the final. He then moved to Wolves in 1967 at the age of 29 and stayed with them as a player for over eight seasons scoring 123 goals in 323 appearances, helping the midlands club clinch promotion from the Second Division in his first season. The Asian businessmen of Allied Properties who had bought Wolves failed to revive them, leading John Bird, the leader of Wolverhampton council, to lament, after a 5-1 defeat by Watford in 1983: "They have brought this town into disrepute, making Wolverhampton the butt of every comedian's jokes.