DOUGAN, Derek Derek had a great career with Wolves and scored lots of goals but he fell in my estimations when he spoke ill of my Wolves hero Billy Wright. Scott, Ged (25 June 2007). "Football: Colourful life and times of Wolves hero Dougan; DEREK DOUGAN APPRECIATION. – Free Online Library". The Birmingham Post . Retrieved 27 July 2016.

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Dougan stood as an independent 'Former Captain NI Football Team' candidate for the East Belfast constituency in the 1997 UK general election, but got only 541 votes and finished seventh out of the nine candidates. [102] In April 2000, he was cleared of aggravated burglary following a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court; the incident had been alleged to have taken place at the home of Patricia Thompson, a former lover. [103] He was also cleared of assaulting a Vietnam War veteran with a pool cue, who had been at the home with Patricia Thompson at the time of the alleged burglary incident. [104] In another court case, again in April 2000, Dougan failed to attend a hearing where he had been charged with driving carelessly and failing to comply with a red traffic signal; he said he had been unable to attend because he had a dental appointment. [105]a b c d e f g "Wolves legend Dougan dies aged 69". BBC Sport. BBC. 24 June 2007 . Retrieved 20 January 2013. Deeley, Tony (5 July 2007). "Fans pay tribute to the Doog; Mourners line streets for funeral. – Free Online Library". Birmingham Mail . Retrieved 28 July 2016.

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Dougan was a combative centre-forward who relied on his speed, strength and awareness to score and create goals. [75] Former Peterborough United teammate Peter Deakin said that "his biggest strength was his ability in the air. If enough balls went into the area he would be on the end of 80 per cent of them". [76] He had an excellent left-foot and was described as "streetwise" and "crafty", but was not a great passer of the ball. [77] Opposition defenders did not like playing against him as he was strong and very difficult to defend against. [78] Media career [ edit ]In just over eight seasons at the Molineux, Dougan made 320 first team appearances for Wolves netting over 120 goals. Yet he remained an enigma. How could so seemingly rational, objective and eloquent a footballer occasionally commit such fearful fouls? And once, late in 1969, in a Wolves versus Everton match, he got himself suspended for eight games for swearing at a linesman.

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In May 1965, he switched to another club, Leicester City, before securing his place with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1967. Tossell, David (2012), In Sunshine Or In Shadow: A Journey Through the Life of Derek Dougan, Pitch, ISBN 978-1-908051-39-4 Derek Dougan, I learned, was a Northern Irish footballer, a centre-forward who joined Wolverhampton Wanderers from Leicester City in March 1967. And who, it seemed, had a taste for psychedelia. The trail is tangled: few people have clear memories of the time, and many – including Dougan himself – are dead. Francis Lee tries to get between Karl-Heinz Schnellinger and Berti Vogts during England’s 3-2 quarter-final defeat to West Germany. Photograph: Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy The Rovers team was in essence an All-Ireland XI and the Northern Ireland governing body Irish Football Association had opposed the staging of the game.I had eight years under him as chairman and he led the PFA, along with my predecessor Cliff Lloyd, all through negotiations in establishing a constitution and a collective bargaining agreement, which have stood the test of time." Dougan succeeded Terry Neill – his future Northern Ireland manager – as chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) in 1970. [91] He advocated the belief that players should control their own destiny and used his position as Chairman of the PFA to further players' rights. [92] He oversaw the inaugural PFA awards in 1973–74, which included the PFA Players' Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year, PFA Team of the Year, and PFA Merit Award. [93] He pushed for freedom of contract for players, and in 1978 accepted a compromise deal that allowed players to switch clubs at the end of their contracts, providing that the player's new club and old club could agree on a transfer fee, with a tribunal agreeing on a fee in cases where clubs could not agree. [94] Dougan was capped 43 times by Northern Ireland and was a member of the squad that reached the quarter-finals of the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. The president of the Irish Football Association, Jim Boyce, paid tribute to the striker. At times, he was a very controversial character, never frightened of taking on authority, which got him into trouble in his playing career and, needless to say, off the field as well," said the current PFA chief executive, Gordon Taylor.

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For many years, players were treated like cattle. But he was very, very outspoken in saying that players had an important role to play and they deserved to be free and masters of their own fate." So Dougan's chairmanship came to a premature and disappointing end. Smoke without fire? Perhaps, but he remained, above all as a player, one of the most magnetic figures of his day. Dougan made his Northern Ireland debut against Czechoslovakia during the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and his final international appearance was in 1973.

In late 1968 Dougan even cut his own single, produced and recorded by Fritz Erste, a German recording engineer who had moved to the West Midlands. In his own studio, Erste recorded A Goal for Dougy, a version of Kaleidoscope's single A Dream for Julie. The words were changed to reflect Dougan's day job – instead of "Strawberry monkeys are smiling for Julie", he sang, in a surprisingly keen tenor, "Peter Knowles dribbles and crosses for Dougy" – and Erste had high hopes of securing a release for the record. It was not to be. "Fritz wanted the record to come out for Christmas," his widow April recalls. "Then we got a call from Derek saying Wolves had a new manager, called Bill McGarry, who'd take a very dim view of his star centre-forward singing on a hippy record. So we never took it to a record company. Fritz was broken-hearted. He was sure it was a No 1." O'Forp, Lila (31 March 2011). "Psychedelic footballer – the secret life of Derek Dougan". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 July 2016. Over half a century later, it’s almost impossible to imagine what it was like to see colour TV for the first time. “When I first caught sight of myself,” recalled Jimmy Hill, “I was quite alarmed. The colours in those days were very garish. I looked like I had terribly high blood pressure. But the ‘wow’ factor of colour was amazing. We wanted our coverage in 1970 to have a carnival feel to it.” I became a big fan of The Doogs thereafter and i am still collecting memorabilia to this day ,a love afair that has lasted over fifty years.