Bully waits to hear on Rangers job

Wolves legend Steve Bull could know next week if he will become Stafford Rangers' new manager and has revealed his enthusiasm for taking the job.

The Molineux record goalscorer has also confirmed that plans for Boro' to move to a new ground, possibly within the next four years, are still on the cards.

Bull is in talks with the Rangers board and will meet the directors in the next few days about possibly following former Wolves team-mate Phil Robinson into the Marston Road hotseat.

On a visit to the county town yesterday the 42-year-old ex-England striker said: "We will have a meeting early next week and I will have a listen to what they come up with. It is still on the table.

"It would be a good step for me to start in management at Stafford. I live close by and I have always wanted to do it.

"I don't want to look back in 15 years time and say I wish I had had a go."

Bull would be taking over a club 14 points from safety in the Blue Square Premier league.

But he said: "They're not really in dire straits at the moment. It's not a club that's rundown, it just needs someone to give it discipline and a kick up the backside.

"They told me the plans and what they want over the next two, three or four years – a new ground somewhere maybe – and I'd like to be part of it."

Stafford Rangers chairman John Downing said the club was hoping to move to a new ground in the next four years but negotiations on a possible site were in their early stages.

He said: "We have ideas about wanting to build a new stadium, mainly because at the moment we have a very old, out-dated one.

"We only have a single pitch, maintenance is high and there are no facilities for community use."

Bull was at the Betfred shop in the town centre to meet customers and help raise funds for the Promise Dreams charity that he supports.

He was given a £100 free bet for the charity which he put on Crack Away jack to win the 2.05pm race at Sandown yesterday. The horse romped home at 11-4 odds at the time of his bet to earn an extra £375 for the charity.

Wolves and Stafford Rangers fans queued up to have a photograph taken with Bully and chat to him.

Rangers fan Robert Gee said he would love to see him in some capacity at the club. "He would raise the profile of Rangers," he said.

Barman Tom Duffy from the Coach and Horses pub in the town centre took along his flag to have a picture taken with Steve and said:"I support Rangers and Wolves and I would love to see him managing Rangers and bring in some local talent."

He also took on customers at table football with anyone beating him winning a free bet.

Among those to challenge him was Wolves fan and hairdresser Lauren Hind, aged 19, of Silkmore, who said it had been a thrill to meet her hero who she had once watched playing for Wolves.

Fans were also able to enter a free draw to win a Wolves shirt that he had signed.

* Steve has helped Promise Dreams, of which he is a patron, raise more than £2 million over the last six years and help more than 700 children.