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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