Match Of The Past: Sheffield Wednesday
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
The Sheffield Derby Throws The Sun Into A Tizz
It is a truth universally acknowledged that football matches – and in particular local derbies – can bring out the worst in people. Where, however, is the line in the...
The Ice Gets Thinner For Gary Megson At Sheffield Wednesday
It could have been worse, believe it or not. Four goals down with five minutes left to play of the first half, five down mid-way through the second. Eventually, though,...
Sheffield Wednesday Send Their Boys To The Slaughter
Flashing across the BBC website on Sunday afternoon came a result which couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow or two: Alfreton Town 14-0 Sheffield Wednesday. The truth was less exciting...
The Twohundredpercent Vault: Steel City Blues
Our summer trawl through the Twohundredpercent vaults continues with this video on the decline of Sheffield football. More than a decade before “The Full Monty”, the decline of the city...
Friday Picture: I Got Stripes
Tomorrow, as you probably know, is the FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke City. Editorial discretion prevents Dotmund from saying who he will be supporting. However, historical facts...
Custodians, Fans And Ownership: From Arsenal To Wrexham
The Arsenal take-over looks like being a long way from the toxic take-overs of The Glazers and Gillett & Hicks. But, as SJ Maskell writes, custodianship is about doing more...
A Rhyme for Captain Blade and Ozzie Owl
We use a familiar old nursery rhyme to record a tale for two of Sheffield’s proudest clubs. It somehow seems appropriate to use a children’s song when discussing matters relating...
Match Of The Week 2: Southampton 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday
With just two wins in their last fifteen matches, this season has turned sour on the pitch for Sheffield Wednesday. Earlier on this season, the team seemed to be defying...
2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
Wednesday Weakness
Now that Sheffield Wednesday’s takeover is imminent, it is instructive to look in detail at some aspects of the tale. There is no doubt that the vast majority of the...
Sheffield Wednesday Go To The Wire
Monday came and went, and nothing happened. Tuesday has now come and gone, and nothing has happened. The future of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club hangs by a knife-edge, with the...
FA Cup Match Of The Week Part Three: Southport 2-5 Sheffield Wednesday
It’s Sunday morning, and some of those that have travelled from South Yorkshire to the Lancashire coast could be forgiven for nursing sore heads. In Sheffield Wednesday’s recent history there...
Fourteen Days Left To Save Sheffield Wednesday. Again.
There were over 20,000 people at Hillsborough last night to Sheffield Wednesday lose at home to Huddersfield Town in League One and, much as that defeat may have dented the...
Clearing Up A Few Loose Ends: Celtic, Portsmouth And (Briefly) Wednesday
It’s the football scandal of a generation. And it won’t go away. Colleen Rooney, photographed blatantly sipping a cool drink by a holiday swimming pool… while there’s a recession on!!...
Time To Go: The Fight For The Future Of Sheffield Wednesday
A horse called “Owls FC” was due to run at Sedgefield racetrack this week. It didn’t. At first this seemed a very appropriate analogy for current affairs at Sheffield Wednesday...
Clubs In Crisis II – Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth & Manchester United Redux
Mark Murphy is back with the second of his round-ups on football clubs that have been hitting the headlines for the wrong reason. ...
Sheffield Wednesday Wait & Wait
If Sheffield Wednesday ever want to get back to the Premier League, I suppose it makes sense to start acting like a Premier League club, and an established one at...
Are Wednesday & Palace Cracking Up?
A brave, or foolhardy, contributor to the Sheffield Wednesday fans’ website “Owlstalk” last week asked the straightforward question “Who did what?” about club chairman Lee Strafford’s recent departure. The last...