page_title: Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924)
section_title: Life after football
hierarchical_section_title: Billy Wright (footballer, born 1924) / Life after football
caption_attribution_description: Statue of Billy Wright outside Molineux, Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.
context_page_description: William Ambrose Wright, CBE was an English footballer, who played as a centre half. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also holds the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football. He also made a total of 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times, including during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup finals.
context_section_description: Wright was a minor media personality, and his marriage to Joy Beverley of the Beverley Sisters occurred at a time long before the era of footballers being known for having celebrity girlfriends. This was in July 1958, by which time Wright was 34, and proved one of the most successful showbiz marriages.
  After leaving management, he became a television pundit and Head of Sport for ATV and Central Television, before retiring in 1989. The following year, he joined the board of directors at Wolverhampton Wanderers as part of the takeover by Sir Jack Hayward.
  On 7 August 1993, he presented Manchester United with the FA Charity Shield, which they won on penalties against Arsenal at Wembley Stadium. On 7 December that year he was present for the friendly game against Honved of Hungary which commemorated the re-opening of Molineux as a rebuilt 28,525-seat stadium. The redevelopment saw three new stands built at the stadium in the space of two years, with the one replacing the Waterloo Road Stand being designated the Billy Wright Stand.
  Wright was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions: in May 1961 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews, and in January 1990, when Michael Aspel surprised him at Thames Television's Teddington Studios.
  Wright went on to be appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 13 June 1959.
caption: Statue of Billy Wright outside Wolves' Molineux Stadium
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