Hi guys ... what coincidence...
heres an article from soccernet today about Steve Bull:
Bull confident Wolves will make it
By Neil Moxley
Fifteen years ago, Roy of the Rovers was acted out for real - except the hero was not Roy Race and the club in question was not Melchester Rovers.
His name was Stephen George Bull and he played for Wolverhampton Wanderers. The only difference was that the 'Tipton Terror' failed to reach the top flight with his adopted local club, despite attempting to do so throughout his entire career.
On Sunday, Wolves will discover whether they or arch-rivals West Bromwich Albion will finally manage what Steve Bull could not, by taking the second automatic promotion spot.
A goal tally of 306 from 591 games over a 13- year spell stands as testament to Bull's ability. He sticks out like a sore thumb in the modern-day history of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.
But statistics tell only half a story. The Wolves of the mid-Eighties had been savaged - a once-great club reduced to a shambling wreck in the bottom half of the old Division Four thanks to mismanagement and financial neglect.
Almost single- handedly, Bull rescued Wolves from oblivion. Twice he scored 50 League goals in a season as he dragged the club upwards. But they could never quite take the final step into what became the Premiership, even with Sir Jack Hayward's patronage.
Bull maintains he has come to terms with the fact that he never played for his beloved club in the top flight. The evidence, however, would suggest otherwise.
He said: 'I still go out on the pitch in my lunch-time when I return to the ground. I'm employed by the club on a part-time basis. Even now, I still can't resist walking out there. I don't know why - it's empty save for a handful of people - but there's still a buzz about the place. I suppose I can't get it out of my system.
'People ask me how it feels never to have played for the club in the Premiership. I can't say it bothers me, but I would have liked it. Going to Highbury one week, Anfield another and seeing how we would have coped.
'Life is full of ifs and buts. I made what I thought were the best decisions at the time. I played for my country in the World Cup and I scored on my debut against Scotland. I scored other goals for England and although I had opportunities to leave Wolves, I just really didn't want to.'
It still rankles with West Bromwich fans that their club transferred him at all. Their manager Ron Saunders thought £60,000 for an unproven centre forward was good business. History proved him spectacularly wrong.
Bull said: 'I was surprised that Ron sold me as I'd scored three goals in five games. I really wondered what I'd let myself in for when I turned up at Wolves.
'I walked into the old Molineux dressing-rooms and there were cockroaches crawling around the floor, the tiles were hanging off in the showers and we trained in the car park. It was a mess.
'There was a great togetherness among the players, though. I think I scored 20-odd goals in my first season and we never looked back from then on.'
In Bull's heyday, every second shop window in Wolverhampton was filled with his face. Turn one corner and his shaven head would appear on a newspaper billboard, drop into a grocer's and the result was likely to be the same.
Taking a trip into the Goalpost pub that lies a mere goalkick away from Molineux was like walking into a shrine dedicated to the glory of the Wolves' No.9.
However, there remained a lingering suspicion that the boy from the Black Country was actually a West Bromwich fan.
He said: 'Legend has it that I have a Throstle tattooed on my ankle - not true. I've got two tattoos and they are my children's names. It's a myth that I'm an Albion fan. The only team I supported as a kid was Liverpool - until I signed for the Wolves that is and since then I've been old gold and black through and through.
'People look at this club and say that we're pessimistic because we always think we're going to blow it. After 18 years, I suppose I can't blame them. This weekend, though, I believe will banish those theories once and for all and we shall do what we have always wanted - reach the Premiership.
'And if we do, I shall be right at the front of the conga that goes through Wolverhampton on Sunday night.'
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n he supported Liverpool as a kid!!!