The day Oxbarn FC were mistaken for Wolverhampton Wanderers

May 24 2009

After the 17th goal we trotted back to the centre circle and realised something was missing the ball, said John.

Roger had hid it up the back of his jersey. He was that fed-up fishing it out of the net.

The slice of Black Country humour was lost on Mainz and their impressive striker.

Jesus Christ, that Adolf was good, said John.

He scored with a bullet-header from outside the box. We all just stood there and watched it go in, even the keeper. He was so fast I couldnt even kick him!

At the interval quite a few of us didnt want to go out for the second half, but we were told we had to.

Oxbarn didnt exactly cover themselves in glory at the later civic reception.

We all got rolling drunk our keeper was sick on the coach going back but they were in an even worse state because they werent used to alcohol.

We definitely won the drinking game!

One man who didnt see the funny side was Bill McGarry, then firebrand manager of the real Wolverhampton Wanderers.

He pledged to take the real Wolves featuring the legendary Derek Dougan and John Richards to Germany to restore some Black Country honour.

But the match never happened.

Oxbarn, with John taking over the managerial reins, went on to bigger and better things, reaching the Sunday leagues Premier Division.

And they even crammed-in a few more overseas tours but always made sure to stress to their hosts beforehand that they were NOT the biggest team in Wolverhampton.