WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 4  CITY 1

League Division 1

12th April 1982

Attendance 14,891

Scorers
City McDonald(77)
Wolves Gray(20), Clarke(23), Hibbitt(35), Eves(27)

Ref Howard King

City Corrigan, Ranson, McDonald, Hareide, Bond, Jackson, Ryan, Reeves, Francis, Hartford, Kinsey – sub May(56)

Wolves Bradshaw, Humphrey, Holliiield, Eves, Pender, Coy, Hibbitt, Carr, Gray, Richards, Clarke – sub Matthews(unused)

FROM AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE CITY MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1996
This game was even more of a nightmare for City, coming as it did after two successive home defeats at the hands of West Ham (0-1) and Liverpool (0-5, although, remember, Liverpool defeats don’t count).
Before the game, manager John Bond had a bust-up with centre-half and fan favourite Nicky Reid and left him out of the side in an ill-timed attempt to persuade the lad to Know His Station In Life. To this day no-one knows the source of their disagreement, answers on a postcard, please, but the consequences were disastrous.
Norwegian wonderboy Aage Hareide came in for Reid and Wolves decided to turn up the heat.
Our defence promptly crumbled on 21 minutes, leaping up and down with futile ‘Handball!’ cries as Terry Hibbitt controlled a pass and swept the ball across the area for Andy Gray to hook home.
Young Wayne Clarke scored the second two minutes later as Hibbitt’s rocket shot rebounded off Bobby McDonald and the despair deepened after 25 minutes when Hibbitt smacked home a free kick which left the City wall and Joe Corrigan mesmerised with admiration.
Mel Eves got the fourth as Gray left our Norwegian Blue for dead on the wing and fed Clarke, who set up the goal scorer.
… McDonald scored a consolation goal for City and Bond, after making a lame joke about us winning the second half, insisted: “We shall be up there among the leaders next season.”…