Ray Parlour joins Steve Bull for Molineux night
Former Arsenal and England midfielder Ray Parlour backed Wolves to go up to the Premier League as he helped legend Steve Bull raise £9,000 at Molineux.
Parlour, 41, appeared as the main guest at a fundraising evening for the Steve Bull Foundation before a packed Hayward Suite with Bully and ex-Wolves, Albion and Walsall striker Don Goodman.
Addressing the 160 guests, which included 1960s Wolves winger Terry Wharton, Parlour reminisced the audience for an hour on tales on his career with the Gunners and the national team.
He then took part in a question and answer session between the three former players – but not before he tipped Kenny Jackett's side for a return to the top flight.
Parlour said: "Like a lot of people up and down the country I want to see Wolves back in the Premier League – where they belong."
The ex-England international Parlour lifted the lid on the drinking culture at the Gunners including 'before' and 'after' tales about reformed alcoholic Tony Adams, and told of how team-mate Martin Keown was the butt of the dressing room banter.
He also gave the inside story on his infamous meeting with ex-Wolves and England boss Glenn Hoddle's faith healer Eileen Drewery and talked of the gambling culture under successor Kevin Keegan.
Among the prizes auctioned off were four VIP Michael Buble tickets which sold for £1,300, four VIP tickets to see Ed Sheeran which attracted a final bid of £800, a four-ball round of golf with Bully and Goodman for £400 and a signed, framed shirt from Wolves' League One-winning campaign which went for £275.
A print of Led Zepellin frontman and Wolves vice-president Robert Plant, painted by Molineux stalwart Jody Craddock fetched £700, while a print signed by members of England's 1966 World Cup winning team was sold for £800.
Two tickets for the Molineux directors box attracted a final bid of £240 and a print of Bully in action brought in £200.
Bully said all the money raised will go to the chosen charity on the night, Team Margot in aid of Delete Blood Cancer UK.
Margot Martini was diagnosed with a very rare form of leukaemia in October 2013 when she was just 14 months old.
Money raised from the dinner will go towards the cost of new registrations to make it easier to find donor matches.
