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London Wolves 60th Anniversary Dinner

London Wolves Diamond Anniversary Dinner

1966-2026

Was held on 3rd October 2026

In

The Vice Presidents’ Suite, Charlton Athletic Football Club,

The Valley, Floyd Road, London SE7 8BL


Our guests of honour

King John Richards, our President and Wolves VP and Pam John Gough.  Wolves Director and Helen

Mel Eves former player

Simon Osborn, former player and Billy-Jo


London Wolves long-serving chairman Stuary Earl opened the proceedings, slightly overwhelmed by the turnout and how great everything looked with a sea of gold and black and beautiful flower arrangements from Heather.  He welcomed JR, John G, Mel and Simon who had also graced a recent AGM showing videos of them all in action.  We were also very pleased to welcome the return of Dave Dungar and Barbara who had joined us many times before back to the Chaucer days.

John Gough was certain that we would soon be returning to the Premier League and has confidence in Nathan Shi’s leadership.  

Nathan had planned to attend our dinner to celebrate with us but sent apologies through John that he had to go to a Chinese FA meeting in Shanghai

Our thanks also to Neil Dady representing the Wolves 1877 Trust.

Both Stuart and John Richards reflected of the sad losses in former players and in our own membership, and both referred to the recent loss of Terry Wharton, Lofty and our best Captain of our 60 years who always felt at home at The Valley - Mike Bailey.

After the meal, John Gough was delighted to announce a very special auction, one that he had aslso been able to take to Daventry’s  50th - 2 seats in the Directors’ box and a meal with the Directors before a match at Molineux, in aid of fundraising for WWLSC.   John, ably assisted by “his runner” John Richards raised the princely sum of £1,100 bid by Dave “Dodges” Hodges.  He has been very ill but he credited Derek Archer with saving his life when he visited him and asked Derek to join him to share this prize.


Jack Leonard, accompanied by son Jacob, told the story of how, at a Steve Saul event at Molineux, he had been determined to win a 1980 LCF signed shirt, and unbeknown to both of them, so was Stef.  So they were bidding against each other.  Jack kindly offered the framed shirt also for WWLSC funds and one of the signatories, LCF Winner Mel Eves auctioned it for £200 - a bargain.

We had a good selection of raffle prizes where the winners are shown in the gallery below, but the star was our youngest member Jacob Leonard who won a shirt and the They Wore the Shirt Book to accompany it.   Mel also felt that Jake should be awarded the special Molineux pack that was his prize.  Derek A should also be mentioned for having difficulty choosing a prize when offered either hair curlers or alcohol.

The pictures on this page and in the galleries are very low resolution - if anyone would like the higher resolution image please email webmaster@Londonwolves.com

Our President, John Richards, talked aboutthe importance of the relationship between players and fans and made a parallel betweenWolves Centenary 1976 and the 150th 2026 relegations predicting winning the 2nd division (aka Championship) the following year in his speech, (YouTube video). Please page down for further  pictures.

Please also see this great article by Johnny Phillips in The Wanderers Post

https://thewandererspost.counterpress.media/features/london-wolves-at-60-loyal-supporters-club-celebrates-historic-milestone-148314

A brief trip through London Wolves history is in the YouTube video below

(There is no musical accompaniment for copyright purposes)


















Further pictures are in the galleries below, including London Fire Brigade’s swift rescue of our members who were trapped in an hotel lift - the hotel gave swift thanks and our thanks that no non was injured.

These are all low resolution pictures - if you want a higher resolution copy email webmaster@londonwolves.comArrivals

Prizes

Dave Hodges and John Gough’s Directors’ Box auction with JR and Derek



Jack Leonard’s League Cup Final Shirt Auction


Other Prizes in Carol’s raffle


Raffle Prizewinners - raffle run by Simon and John for Carol

Pictures in the picture gallery

Pictures from the evening