Nursing hangovers from the boozy bierkeller excesses of the night before – they sensed something was awry . . . badly awry.
Oxbarn in 1975...the team went on to better things. John is pictured far left.
It was to be the culmination of an alcohol-drenched stag trip to celebrate the impending weddings of two Oxbarn squad members. Back then, Oxbarn posted a hopeful letter to the Mayor of Mainz, an ancient city on the banks of the Rhine, enquiring if any local team fancied a game.The excited Mainz burgher got the wrong end of the stick, translating the communication as: “We are THE team in Wolverhampton...”
Speaking from his home in the sleepy Shropshire village of Beckbury, John – nephew of Wolves legend Bill Shorthouse – once again tasted the embarrassment of those tortuous 90 minutes. The taste was still bitter. “Then someone piped-up, ‘We’re going to have to tell them’. I told everyone to keep their mouths shut. They’d rolled out the red carpet, really gone to town.”
“Quite a few of us didn’t want to go out for the second half and needed a lot of persuading,” said John. “They were begging us, saying, ‘you’ve got to do it’.”
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