Player Focus

This week I will be looking at Andy Mutch (bottom, duh!).

Andy spearheaded the Wolves attack with legend Steve Bull, and struck a mouth watering partnership. Signed on our way down, an impressive 7 goals in 15 games wasn't enough to keep them up. The next season he joined forces with Bully and just missed out on promotion through the play offs. The following season their combined goals added up to 53, and Wolves lifted the 4th division title. They improved on that the season after with their partnership scoring 58 league goals (83 in all competitions!) bringing wolves a succesive league title.

While he never played for England, he did make the England 'B' team 3 times and the under 21s team once, but didn't score.

Andy was a trainee at Liverpool and Everton but never made the grade at either. He started his professional career at Southport, where he returned to in 1999 for a year. He played 75 times for s'port, and bagged 29 goals. In 1986 Graham Turner snapped him up at the Wanderers.

Part of one of Wolves' greatest partnerships, and in less of the limelight than Steve Bull, but he did something Bully never achieved. A season in the premiership. Bull did score in the top flight for Albion, but only lasted two games in the world's best league. Mutch left the Molineux in 1993 for £250k to newly promoted(to the prem) Swindon. He scored 6 goals for them in his 50 games there, but left for lowly Stockport County, where he won promotion and got to the League Cup semis under Dave Jones (who was later to be Wolves manager). He lasted two seasons at Edgeley park, and left for non-league Barrow. He returned to Southport for one game but soon joined the Telford United coaching staff.

In 2007, he stepped up from his assistant manager position to manage Vauxhall Motors. His first managerial job ended badly, and resigned after losing 6-0 at home to Kettering. His next tenure didn't end well either, where he was manager at Burscough for a a season, and was recently sacked.

Andy has also worked for a car company that specialised in selling to footballers.

Any thing horribly wrong, or something important that I've missed out?