Wolves cartoonist Bob Lawton hoping for promotion picture at Molineux - WITH PICTURES

Bob Lawton, who has been following Wolves since 1956/57, is a prolific and award-winning cartoonist with a satirical flair for all things Wolves.

Anyone who has caught Bob's work throughout this season on social media – which he does purely for enjoyment – will have noted his witty observations, including on Wolves' detractors or occasionally slightly bitter opponents.

He's certainly been able to draw on Wolves' fabulous campaign to date for inspiration.

"The punchline is the be all and end all," 73-year-old Bob, from Alvechurch, told the Express & Star.

"Drawing a good caricature helps but it's about the joke rather than the person.

"With cartoons you’re taking a risk because you’re putting your opinion out there

"You've got to be daring."

Bob is certainly that, with cartoons poking fun at Albion fans, Blues, Dr Tony Xia, Millwall's 'old fashioned' supporters, Sunderland's bus parking tactics and Shrewsbury's somewhat aggressive approach in a pre-season friendly.

Award-winning Bob has honed and perfected his style over many, many years in the trade which included a long stint at the Birmingham Mail and Sports Argus.

Warning: Cartoons may contain strong language.

Now working freelance, the former sales director has more time than ever to pen his colourful witticisms, with Twitter (@BobLawton20) and Facebook a new avenue to showcase his work.

And with Wolves flying high Bob, a season ticket holder in the Steve Bull stand, is regularly finding material for his cartoons which can take as little as an hour to complete in his studio/attic.

"I've not really seen football like this since the 1950s," Bob added.

"It's just wonderful to see players like Ruben Neves and my favourite, Willy Boly.

"There are players playing for Wolves who shouldn't be in the Championship.

"It's a very different game now but it's so enjoyable watching this team."

Bob has seen them all over the years – Billy Wright, Peter Broadbent, Johnny Hancocks, Jimmy Mullen, John Richards, Derek Dougan and many, many more.

In his learned opinion how do the current crop compare to heroes from years gone by?

"Neves' short passing and work is more like Broadbent," he said.

"A better comparison with Neves would probably be more Ron Flowers, or Bill Slater as well – great players. Both of them had got tremendous thunderbolt shots.

"If you look at Neves’ passing now, Ron and Bill and to a certain extend Eddie Clamp were doing that.

"It's a different game now, there are banks of defenders to try and play through – we never had that in the 50s.

"As for comparing Boly...it's more Joleon Lescott and Dean Richards from the modern centre halves.

"I can't get over how delicate Boly can be in possession."

Raised in Kings Norton and now living in Alvechurch, Bob isn't your typical Wolves fan. He explains how he ended up as a Molineux regular.

"I was Kings Norton born and bred and I attended the Kings Norton St Nicolas Church choir.

"A note got passed down the aisle which said 'are you coming to the Wolves on Saturday?'.

"I asked if I could go but they wouldn't get me because I was younger. A couple of weeks later the same thing happened again but this time they said yes.

That first game was a third round FA Cup tie against Swansea in 1957. By May 1960 he'd seen Wolves lift two league championships and an FA Cup.

"The first years were unbelievable," he said. "We never expected to get beaten.

"I've been to Old Trafford five times and never seen Wolves lose, I've watched them against Barcelona – although that was a bit of a disaster (a 5-2 defeat in the European Cup) and beat Real Madrid.

"We used to hammer teams every week.

"Generally it was good times. You tend to remember things from longer ago than more recently

"I was very privileged to see Peter Broadbent who was probably the best I've ever seen, apart from maybe George Best.

"Broadbent had an amazing body swerve. He wasn’t particularly pacey, he’d knocks ball through to Jimmy Murray and Dennis Wilshaw and they’d score, although Broadbent would regularly get 15 or 16 goals a season himself.

"He was the Neves of his day but it was a totally different setup, they had wing halves then and he's play in front of Flowers, Slater and Clamp but behind Bobby Mason and Jimmy Murray, the two strikers.

"Then you had the wingers Hancocks, Jimmy Mullen, Norman Deeley, Harry Hooper. They'd get the ball out to them and their crosses were so accurate.

"Some of the London press used to call it kick and rush but it wasn’t like that."

"They were great days."

The rate Wolves are going there could be some more great days just around the corner. And Bob will love nothing more than capturing the moment in his own unique way.

As well as on social media follow Bob's work at www.boblawton.me