42 years ago For Wulfrunians in the TRNC Peter Knowles

wanderer


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07/09/2011 11:36

Wolves columnist John Lalley recalls, 42 years to the day, the moment when one of the club’s greatest-ever talents walked away from the game, never to return.



I don’t suppose he has the faintest idea that Wolves have accumulated seven points from their opening three matches this season.



Despite nigh on 190 appearances for the club and 64 goals, Peter Knowles has had different priorities to occupy his thoughts over the last 42 years.



It was 6 September 1969 that saw his last game of professional football before, as he perceived it, the game fatally compromised his spiritual convictions.



Despite boss Bill McGarry insisting that the player’s training kit be laid out the following Monday morning, Knowles was not for turning and left football for good, only regretting that he had taken up the game in the first place.







Read more: http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2011/09/06/peter-knowles-was-never-forgotten/#ixzz1XFnbgqp1

JohhnyLee


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07/09/2011 12:22

Nice one Wanderer. He was the one all the girls liked, A great player with the promise of George Best.



I think I saw almost every match he played in.



In the early 80s i got to know Peter well and have seen him on and off ever since. He is a Gentleman. A top guy.



We worked in the same trade, Ceramic Tiling. He later went on to work in M.&S..



He always looks very well and very content. I asked him one day about why he gave up and he said that if he hadn,t he would have probably gone the same way as George Best.



His brother was Cyril Knowles, the much loved Spurs player (Nice one Cyril) who I believe died very young from a brain hemorhage.



Good post Wanderer, Not many people will know just how highly Peter was rated, also England under 23 I think.



I believe he would have been one of Englands top players at the time.