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'We are looking over our shoulders, it is a matter of time': Wolves legend Steve Bull on 'alarming' dementia connection with football as former England striker calls for more research and help for ex-players

Wednesday, October 4 1989, and under the Molineux lights an increasingly frantic Wolves are losing a League Cup tie to neighbours Aston Villa 3-1 on aggregate.

It is the second half of the second leg and time is running out for the home side — champions of the third tier last season, their second promotion in a row — and their quest to stun their First Division, big city rivals.

On the left, midfielder Nigel Vaughan sends over a looping cross in hope more than expectation. Villa keeper Nigel Spink races off his line to clear but the lethal Steve Bull, as he so often does, gets there a fraction of a second earlier.