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If ever there was a doubt what this player and person meant to the people of Wolverhampton, this shows all you need to know.
Scarves, shirts, framed photos, flowers—and dozens of handwritten messages—lie along the walkway, where fans gathered regularly in the 2017/18 Championship season to welcome players, including Diogo Jota off the team bus, in a team that united the city and brought belief back to the city, ultimately taking the side back to European football for the first time in nearly 40 years. 

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00:00If ever there was a doubt what this player and person meant to the people of Wolverhampton,
00:08this shows you all you need to know. I'm standing outside of Molyneux, just beside the Billy Wright
00:13statue and the sight is deeply moving. Scarved shirts, framed photos, flowers and dozens of
00:20handwritten messages lying along the walkway where fans gathered regularly in the 2017-18
00:25championship season to welcome players including Diodo Jota off the team bus in a team that united
00:32the city and brought belief back to the team that eventually ended up with European football
00:37for the first time in nearly 40 years. That championship side is still widely regarded
00:45as one of the best to ever step foot in England's second tier and their immediate rise to back-to-back
00:50seventh place finishes seems like a feat that with the competition in the top flight that only
00:55now people are beginning to appreciate. Ruben Neves, Raul Jiménez, Jaume Tino and Diogo Jota
01:02all played crucial role in the team's rise that slightly fell apart during the Covid season,
01:08something that fans here look back on with huge frustration that they couldn't watch their
01:12team competing in their prime and help them get over the line. The flag flies at half-mast
01:18as players and people come and go to tribute to Jota and his brother Andre after their tragic
01:24deaths on July 3rd. Supporters spanning generations are here. Young children place replica wolf shirts
01:32next to those worn by older fans. One reads thanks for the goals and the memories, another declares
01:38once a wolf, always a wolf. A message echoed across the majority of tributes.
01:43As we film the rows of keepsakes, fans pausing in quiet reflection, small gatherings sharing stories
01:52and memories of their number 18. The sense is clear, Jota's bond with Wolverhampton runs deep.
01:58The club is reportedly considering a permanent tribute inside Molyneux, but out here among scarves
02:04and flowers, that memorial is already built by the people who loved him most.
02:13So let's hope.
02:15All right.

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