No regrets for Bully

Steve Bull told Soccer AM he had no regrets about his limited international career.

He was a true goal machine in his day and Steve Bull told Soccer AM that he had no regrets about his career despite his limited international opportunities. The Wolves legend's illustrious career saw him score an incredible 306 goals in just 561 games for Wanderers, between 1986 and 1999, when a knee injury forced him to retire. Despite this unbelievable record he was only capped 13 times by England and Bull admitted not playing for a team in the top flight probably hindered his chances. "If I was at Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool and banging them in week in week out, then yeah I think I would have been played more for my country," he said. "But I scored against Scotland coming out of the third division, if you're a natural goal scorer I think you will score goals anywhere." Bull's prolific goal scoring record naturally caught the eye of a number of top flight clubs, but the man who scored an unbelievable 18 hat-tricks during his playing days, decided to stay at Wolves to become the greatest goal scorer in the history of the club. "I'd just had my first child when Newcastle came in for me and I just thought no, not Newcastle, because I had just settled down with the baby," he explained. "I think if I was going to make a move it should have been then. "But I was happy then and I'd still be happy now if I was there and still playing."

Loyalty

Other than a brief spell with West Bromwich Albion in his early days, Bull was very much a one club man having spent 13 years at Wolves, but it has become increasingly common for players today to represent five or six teams in their careers. The examples of Jamie Carragher at Liverpool and Ryan Giggs at Manchester United, who have both been at their respective clubs for well over ten years, are few and far between and Bull put this down to the large transfer fees and resulting signing on fees for the players. "I think it (loyalty) went out the window quite a while ago. Ever since they started breaking the £1 million barrier to buy players, it's been line your pockets and go. "There are these players today that will earn millions and millions of pounds (from transfers) so there not just going to stop at one club."

Goals

With well over 300 goals to his name Bull admitted it was too difficult to choose his favourite but revealed why a goal against Bury held a special place in his heart. "I don't have a favourite really," he said. "But I think the one that sticks out in my mind was my last one against Bury. "I just wish I had known that it was going to be my last one because you wouldn't have seen me, I would have legged it into the car park or something! "It actually came off my ear, but if I knew that was going to be my last one I would have pulled my shirt up and been running around ASDA car park! I would have been all over the place!