Historian Pat Quirke has taken an in depth look at some of the most stand-out items which can be found in amongst the cabinets of the captivating home of Wolves' long and proud history.
Football has changed dramatically during the past 150 years, but something that remains in place today as much as it ever was is the guidelines that players need to abide by when representing the club.
Inside the Wolves dressing room at Compton Park is a list of rules that each player must adhere to or face a fine, and it was no different throughout history, but back then, each individual who played for Wolves would be handed a rule book, indicating what they can and cannot do.
Pat explains: “This kind of rule book is something that all players at all clubs would have and it would include all the training rules and instructions that the players had to adhere to at the time.
“This particular small handbook belonged to Albert Legge, who played for Wolves between 1922 and 1928, and it indicates that they had to report for training at 9.45am and 2.45pm each day, except for matchdays and Sundays.
“There were also rules in here which would forbid a player to ride on a motorbike because of the dangers they would pose, while no smoking was allowed in the dressing room.
“The book would also include the player’s ticket. A lot of players would go to other grounds and watch matches that their friends would play in, and all they had to do was flash their book and get in for free.
“We also have a handbook from a few years later that belonged to Ted Vizard – the manager of Wolves in the mid-1940s, who had Stan Cullis as his assistant.”
