From the archive - Bennett goes in goal

Nowadays of course it is far less common, with substitute goalkeepers having been a regular fixture for 20 years.

But back in April 1991 Wolves had no choice but to hand Tom Bennett the gloves when keeper Mike Stowell was carried off injured.

Add to that the fact in was in the middle of a heated Black Country derby against Albion and you've potentially got a recipe for disaster.

In front of a packed Molineux, Wolves and Albion were level at one apiece, with Robbie Dennison and Don Goodman finding the net against their former and future clubs respectively.

Then just after half time Stowell was floored by Albion's new signing Paul Williams as they went up for a corner.

Williams was booked and Stowell received lengthy treatment with the game stopped for six minutes, and when the stretcher was called for a pensive looking Wolves boss Graham Turner took to the field to reorganise his troops.

Substitute Brian Roberts took over at right-back and Bennett donned the gloves, with a daunting 40 minutes left in the game for him to keep Albion at bay.

As Dennison later recalled, things didn't look good for Wolves and Bennett at this point.

"The gaffer told to take a few shots at him to get him warmed up and he didn't catch one," Dennison said.

Bennett though passed his first test, saving a Craig Shakespeare shot, with the Sporting Star reporting that the save 'brought enormous cheers from Wolves supporters'.

The emergency keeper could do absolutely nothing to stop Tony Ford drilling a superb shot into the corner to give Albion a 2-1 lead.

However Wolves grabbed an unlikely equaliser through Andy Mutch and held on for a point, with Bennett not seriously troubled again.

The full-blooded derby took another bizarre turn in the closing seconds when a Wolves fan ran onto the pitch from the John Ireland stand and handed Albion captain Graham Roberts a carrot.

Only in the Black Country.