Tributes to former Wolves chief Harry Marshall
Who knows what might have been? In February 1982, Wolves chairman Harry Marshall was on the brink of recruiting Aberdeen's young manager Alex Ferguson to join Molineux.
?Tributes have been paid to former Wolves chairman Harry Marshall, who has died aged 80. Marion Brennan reports on the life of the prominent business man
Who knows what might have been? In February 1982, Wolves chairman Harry Marshall was on the brink of recruiting Aberdeen's young manager Alex Ferguson to join Molineux.
But according to his son Tony, his plans were thwarted by his fellow directors.
"Wolves might have been a very different club today if the other directors at that time had taken his advice."
Harry Marshall, who died on Monday, was a prominent businessman who guided Wolves through one fo the most turbulent periods of the club's history.
A lifelong Wolves fan, he followed his father Jim onto the Molineux board during the highly successful 1970s era when Wolves became Texaco Cup winners and UEFA Cup runners-up. But it was during his time as chairman from 1976-82 that the club endured some real highs and lows that shaped the next decade.
Today Tony Marshall, 49, said: "My father was a real football man. He understood the game.
"One of my strongest memories of that time was seeing Alex Ferguson, then manager of Aberdeen, in our living room one Sunday talking terms with my father."
