Wolves fans come up with 'old school' design for commemorative shirt to help charity and 'take people back'

Four lifelong Wolves fans are proving that they’re cut from a different cloth, after creating an iconic commemorative shirt to celebrate the club’s impending 150th anniversary.

Kieran Newey, Alex Moore, Nathan Crawford and Ryan Leister- part of the Old Gold Pack (OGP) fans group - have spent 18 months developing a rich, old gold design which represents a departure from the yellow shade adopted by the club over the past eight years.

And they are teaming up with a UK manufacturer to sell the shirts for £50 and donate part of the profits to Compton Care, with the rest going to fund future displays and flags

Kieran said: “It’s a shirt designed by the fans, for the fans and grounded in the club’s history - but not stuck in the past.

“It literally started with Alex and Nathan playing around with ideas and sending designs into the group chat. It was more of a ‘what if’ at first, but the more we looked at it, the more we thought we could actually make something happen.

“We’ve always been into football kits and the stories behind them.

“We were constantly sending designs from other clubs into the group chat and saying ‘imagine if we did something like that for Wolves?’ Eventually it just turned into a ‘why not actually try it?’

“Once we started, we agreed that we wouldn’t do it half-heartedly and were committed to creating something that genuinely felt like a fitting tribute to mark the150 years and our formation in 1877.

“And one of the things we have done is to make sure we have used Wolverhampton based companies and people in the design and development of the shirt that was very important.

Ryan added: “In recent seasons, I’ve had several ideas for football shirts, with a particular focus on Wolves.

“During this season I got to know Kieran better and shared one of my shirt concepts with him. It turned out that he, along with Alex and Nathan, had a similar idea and had already started developing it.

“Until you are involved in a project like this, you have no idea how much work goes into it. But it has all been worth it and we are delighted with the outcome.”

Taking their inspiration from some iconic jerseys of the past, the shirt is adorned with a town crest synonymous with Wolverhampton, reworking it into something that reflects the city, as supporters would like to see it.

The OGP fans’ group - formed during the Covid years - has also been involved in for the Raúl Jiménez fundraising banner and recent Diogo Jota tributes.

A launch event to celebrate the 150th anniversary shirt will be held at North Street Social in Wolverhampton on Saturday at 7pm with local band Lost Pioneers playing and supporters getting the chance to pre order the shirts which will land in mid July

For more information or to pre-order from Friday visit https://oldgoldpack.co.uk/150th-anniversary/