35th anniversary: The golden day Wolves won the League Cup

The photograph above, provided by fan Dave Bevington from Toronto, Canada, shows Wolves fans getting in the mood for the big day as they travelled to Wembley on March 15, 1980.

Many Wolves fans have contacted us with the memories of the day, and today the Express & Star is publishing a selection of them in our special celebration of the final.

Around 50,000 gold and black-clad supporters from Wolverhampton, south Staffordshire and the Black Country crammed into hundreds of cars, coaches and special trains bound for the Twin Towers to cheer on their heroes in the final against Nottingham Forest.

And their support was richly rewarded as John Barnwell's underdogs beat the European champions 1-0, courtesy of a 66th minute goal from then record signing Andy Gray.

Father-of-one Mr Bevington was 20 at the time and used to live in St James's Road, Cannock.

Mr Bevington, who was an apprentice at heavy plant equipment firm Caterpillar on the A5 in 1980, said: "It was a great day - I think we all got home at about half past midnight the worse for wear.

"We all used to congregate at the White Hart pub in Cannock and get the bus to the match.

"On the day of the final, we met up at 8.30am at Cannock bus station.

"We hired one of those executive coaches at the time with tables and lampshades and thought we were the team!

"We stopped at the Sleepy Sausage on the M1 on the way there and on the way back we stopped at a pub near Daventry and carried on celebrating."

Now 55 and a regional manager for an engineering company, Mr Bevington, moved to Canada in 1997, when his Wolverhampton-born, Wolves supporting son Guy was three-years-old, after he and his wife decided on a new life in North America while on holiday.

Read our two-page celebration of the final on pages 20 and 61, plus interviews with Wembley heroes Geoff Palmer and Willie Carr on page 79.