Steve Bull
Stephen George "Steve" Bull ( born March 28, 1965 in Tipton, West Midlands ) is a former English footballer who has played for many years both for Wolverhampton Wanderers as well as thirteen times for the English national team.
Sports career
After Steve Bull had left the Willing Worth High School, the striker joined in 1981 at the local amateur club Tipton Town. His first major club should then be West Bromwich Albion, which he then left again in 1986 for a transfer fee of 65,000 pounds in the direction of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
During his lasting until 1999, three ten -year stay in Wolverhampton, he became one of the most successful league and won numerous internal records. These included his 306 goals, one of which he scored in 250 league games. When the followers he won so a legend status, put it in the main grandstand named after Bull in the domestic Molineux Stadium.
He made his debut for the " Wolves " on 22 November 1986, should total 561 games - including 464 in the English league - accrues. He then moved last minute for twelve games to Hereford United, his former coach Graham Turner supervised.
In the 1987/88 season he scored 52 goals for his time still fourth division club and attributed this to the rise of a master of the Fourth Division. In addition, Wolverhampton was so next to the Burnley FC, the only team to have won all four professional league levels in England the championship. The following year, succeeded on the third league championship immediate walkover in the Second Division and bull increased his goal tally with 53 hits one more time and thus achieved unprecedented 105 goals in two seasons. Although he was active only in the third division, he was nevertheless appointed to the England national team, where he got his first international match against Scotland at Hampden Park.
Also in the second division showed Bull good performance and remained his club faithful, although he received from the first division club Aston Villa, Coventry City, Newcastle United and even from the top Italian club Juventus, where he stressed that he is primarily the Wolves back in wanted to lead the top English league.
Steve Bull came during his 13 caps for England to a total of four goals - including two goals in a World Cup warm-up match against the then Czechoslovakia - and also was in the squad for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. Bobby Robson's team a place in he had thereby secured by his last international goal against Tunisia.
Bull was only a substitute in the World Cup against Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium, respectively, and then played again against Egypt from the beginning. His last international game he played against Poland in October 1990 and was thereafter not be considered by the new national coach Graham Taylor, the Bull should still work out at the Wolves later.
In the years 1995 and 1997, Bull was close to promotion to the Premier League, however, as the Wolves failed in both cases, in the play-off encounters. During his last two seasons in Wolverhampton Bull had increased to cope with injuries which meant that he lost his place in the first team. In July 1999, he then announced his resignation.
He celebrated around two years later, a brief comeback when he hired in the Football Conference at Hereford United among his former coach Graham Turner as a player and Kotrainer.
In December 1999, was "Bully " as Steve Bull was called by his followers, recognized for his athletic achievements with the Order of the British Empire as MBE, although he completed a total of only a few top-flight with West Bromwich Albion and then always played below the elite class had.