My Team: Wolves

United Future leader Peter Dunne
United Future leader Peter Dunne
A weekly series revealing the club allegiances of English football fans.

Stephen Dunn
Accounts Manager
Wolves

Fan since: About 1974, I think.

Favourite player: Derek Dougan.

Greatest moment: Beating Nottingham Forest 1-0 in the League Cup final in 1980.

Been to Molineux Stadium? No.

There's an interesting story behind how I became a Wolves fan.

I grew up in a football family.

My brothers played and my Dad was a referee.

We used to get the old Shoot and Goal magazines, which many people will remember.

Once a year, they came with these little cardboard league tables that you could put on the wall.

We basically put the tabs into a hat and picked one out.

I got Wolves.

One of my brothers got Leeds and the other got Arsenal, my father got Chelsea and my mother got Manchester United.

I think I probably got the short end of the stick.

Still, there were many good players in the Wolves teams in the 1970s when I started following them.

Derek Dougan was great, and there was John Richards.

Steve Bull was pretty special in the 1980s.

Wolves nearly went out of existence in the mid-1980s.

We dropped down to the old fourth division and I think the club almost went into administration.

It was all a bit of a disaster.

We've steadily moved back up the divisions but we've been stuck in the Championship for a while.

We only lasted a year when we got into the Premier League a few years ago.

Unfortunately, we've lost our last two games but before that we were unbeaten this season.

We're second at the moment.

I think I dream about getting back into the Premier League every year.

This year I do think we might have a chance.

We usually don't start so well, so to be second is a good sign.

I think Mike McGarry might be a bit of a Wolves fan as well.

And there's Andy Deeley in town, whose father played for Wolves.

I've been to England a few times but for some reason I've never had the chance to go through Wolverhampton.

That's a bit disappointing, really.

Just last year, I went with the Milk Cup team to Ireland and went on to England for a bit of a trip.

I'm the chairman of Dunedin Technical.

We had a lot of excitement this year with the club getting to the Chatham Cup final.

It was just disappointing we didn't play that well on the day.

- As told to Hayden Meikle.

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