City's manager between 1946 and 1948 was Major Frank Buckley. He's just had a mention on QI for something he was doing a season or two earlier while at Wolves, so there's no reason to suspect he didn't do it here. Any guesses as to what?
Is this the injecting his players with extracts of monkey testicles? ( If it's not, I'm gonna seem I freak but I definitely remember something like that. )
Worried me then, but having googled I'm sure I'm right In tonight's episode Stephen referred to the Wolverhamnpton Wanderers manager Major Frank Buckley saying that he isisted his players be injected with monkey "glands" and that as a result centre-forward Dennis Westcott scored 38 goals in 35 games. Westcott did indeed score 38 goals in 35 games in the 1946-7 season but Buckley had resigned as manager in 1944. The manager in 1946-7 was Ted Vizard. The furore about monkeyt extracts being injected into Wolves players was in 1938 when Buckley was indeed manager.
I will guess it's either the monkey gland thing, which roseniorhisgranisfromhull alluded to, or it was using psychologists to boost player confidence.
It is in deed all bollocks. Seemingly Buckley claims to have invented the story just to tease a tiresome press. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
"he toyed, provocatively, with the media (instigating the empty rumour that his players were using a monkey gland treatment to aid performance), he used psychologists to instill confidence in his players and was responsible for bringing through Stan Cullis and offering Billy Wright a start in professional football." Courtesy of your very own Tiger's History thread (pg 16)
