Celebration Time For Legendary Record-Breaker
Steve Bull.
What can we say about Wolves’ all-time leading goalscorer Steve Bull that hasn’t been put out there before?
What fresh observations about his phenomenal plundering with Wolverhampton Wanderers and England can we share with our readers?
Well, he reaches a landmark birthday today, so how about these fond backwards glances to the days when he was running amok among opposition defences…..
They certainly underline the point that 60 seems to have been a lucky number for him and he knew how to do things in style.
*Bully’s 60th goal for Wolves was the one that completed his hat-trick in a 5-3 home win over Darlington in the spring of 1988.
*His 60th League goal for the club he joined along with Andy Thompson was his second (out of only two this time!) in a 4-1 Third Division home victory over Huddersfield on November 12, 1988.
Bully and Andy Thompson at the 2022 funeral of Keith Pearson, the club secretary who oversaw their 1986 move from Albion to Wolves.
*His 60th first-team goal at Molineux was the last of the four he scored in a 6-0 rout of Preston, also in Division Three, on November 26, 1988.
*His 60th game for the club was the FA Cup tie against Cheltenham in November, 1987. Yep, you guessed it…..he scored a hat-trick.
*His 60th senior game at Molineux was even more successful. It was a 5-1 Third Division win over Port Vale in which he hit four.
*His 60th day as a Wolves player was January 18, 1987, a few days before the signing of Mark Kendall and the keeper’s debut in a 2-0 win at Cardiff, where the goals came from Bull and Thompson.
*His 30th birthday – literally half a lifetime ago – was followed four days later by his scoring of the only goal of a game at Southend. His celebratory pose was captured by photographer David Bagnall’s son, Sam, and used on the front cover of one of the books written about the record-breaking no 9 (photo below right). That was also his 200th Football League goal.
Wolves Heroes’ David Instone was one of those asked to contribute to the online tribute to the striker published on the club’s official website this morning.
Supporter Tom Parry, a comedian and screen-writer drafted An Ode To Bully, the different lines of which were shared among and read out by former players Andy Thompson and Don Goodman, celebrity fans Robert Plant and Suzi Perry, media personnel and various supporters.
The tribute, visible by clicking An ‘Ode to Bully’ on his 60th birthday | Club | News | Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, was filmed over several days in a variety of different locations.