Long Reads

对于运动员来说，很少有三个字母的缩写像ACL那样会令人感到沮丧。

Few three-letter acronyms strike more devastation into an athlete than ACL.

She may have enjoyed a career on stage which has taken her across the globe, but on each tour, each rehearsal, each show, Beverley Knight MBE has had one eye on Wolves.

For many of Wolves’ 1980/81 squad, a post-season trip to Jacksonville opened eyes to the bright lights of the United States, and particularly those of Colin Brazier, who was so fixated, he returned on a permanent basis that very same summer.

This summer Gary O’Neil’s Wolves side will head across the pond and touch down in the United States for the first time since 1981, when a certain John Richards – now club vice-president – was a goal scorer for the Old Gold in a pioneering friendly against Jacksonville Tea Men.