Adam Virgo

[Crozzer]

Virtigo speaks (2nd from top).

http://www.albionroar.co.uk/archive.asp


Seems like yesterday really was the killer blow  . 


There's an interview lower down with another John Byrne, who played for the Pox, not to be confused with Budgie.

[Reg Smeeton]

Virtigo speaks (2nd from top).

http://www.albionroar.co.uk/archive.asp


Seems like yesterday really was the killer blow  . 


There's an interview lower down with another John Byrne, who played for the Pox, not to be confused with Budgie.

Think you're mixing up your Byrnes Crozzer....our man is David Byrne. Who is confusingly nicknamed Budgie, after the original Johny Byrne....a cult figure of the early 60's.  The original Budgie Byrne, was one of the very few players capped by England when playing in Div 3.  Peter Taylor and Steve Bull spring to mind as others. 

Byrne featured for West Ham, in the 63 cup final...and nearly made the 66 squad...but he was one of those players of the time, who although gifted, liked a drink too much, he was mates with Greavsie.

It can't be the original Budgie being interviewed as he died in 99.

[dell boy]

I thought Steve Bull was a Division One player Reg, when he got the call up?

[Reg Smeeton]

I thought Steve Bull was a Division One player Reg, when he got the call up?

He definitely got his first cap if not 2, when a Div 3 player...he scored a shed load, about 40 when Wolves won the league about 89.  Andy Mutch scored 20+ as well 

[THE FLASH]

He definitely got his first cap if not 2, when a Div 3 player...he scored a shed load, about 40 when Wolves won the league about 89.  Andy Mutch scored 20+ as well 

I thought he played when Wolves were in the old divvy 2 (Championship).

Scotland wasnt it?

[Reg Smeeton]

I thought he played when Wolves were in the old divvy 2 (Championship).

Scotland wasnt it?

May well have been the old Home Championship.....end of the season, when Wolves had just won Div 3...which means he's regarded as a Div 3 player.

[Arriba]

i saw steve bull play for england at wembley against yugoslavia i think?
bryan robson scored very early on if i remember rightly.
wolves were in what is now the championship at the time,and the ground was full of wolves fans who worshipped the bloke like no other player i've ever seen anywhere else.

[Reg Smeeton]

i saw steve bull play for england at wembley against yugoslavia i think?
bryan robson scored very early on if i remember rightly.
wolves were in what is now the championship at the time,and the ground was full of wolves fans who worshipped the bloke like no other player i've ever seen anywhere else.

Bull more or less kept the club alive...they'd dropped down to Div 4, were playing to 4000 crowds...the ground was falling apart, with that stand about a pitch away from the touchline..skint with no players.  WBA more or less let them have Bull as a neighbourly act of charity..the rest is history.  Oddly he mostly did shit when he played v STFC

[Rich Pullen]

Weren't we one of the many clubs who tried to give Steve Bull an opportunity to play in the top flight? We got Andy Mutch instead

[Reg Smeeton]

Weren't we one of the many clubs who tried to give Steve Bull an opportunity to play in the top flight? We got Andy Mutch instead

Don't recall it...but I suppose it was possible.

TBF to Mutch he scored 7 goals in about the same amount of games that JAF scored 12 in the Prem.  Not bad for 200K.

He also scored the goal with a cartwheel celebration that was used on Grandstand...

[Rich Pullen]

I may have been young but you don't forget who the Town player who cartwheeled on Grandstand was!

Plus he did it on my birthday - a 2-2 draw with Newcastle. One of my favourite 'birthday matches'.

[THE FLASH]

Bull more or less kept the club alive...they'd dropped down to Div 4, were playing to 4000 crowds...the ground was falling apart, with that stand about a pitch away from the touchline..skint with no players.  WBA more or less let them have Bull as a neighbourly act of charity..the rest is history.  Oddly he mostly did shit when he played v STFC

Didnt he break Calderwoods leg???

[THE FLASH]

I may have been young but you don't forget who the Town player who cartwheeled on Grandstand was!

Plus he did it on my birthday - a 2-2 draw with Newcastle. One of my favourite 'birthday matches'.

Its disappointing but i cannot find the credits on Youtube.......everyone but it seems.

[Spud]

I love the way Virgo compare's Nicky Forster & Glenn Whelan to Steve Howard & Matty Fryatt.

[Reg Smeeton]

Didnt he break Calderwoods leg???

Did The Fridge's knee....Bull was hard but fair.