Decidedly mixed fortunes for this final foursome. West Brom sprang back into the Premier League with ease but will the string once again be elasticated? Swansea were tidy but punchless in a failed play-off bid, Watford relied on the loan system to just about keep themselves afloat and Sheffield Wednesday will still be pinching themselves at how horribly wrong it went.Sheffield WednesdayWell that was avoidable. A determined performance in a 1-0 defeat at St. James’ Park in August and a Luke Varney inspired coast to victory at Home Park soon after and the Yorkshire Owls were looking a fair bet…
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The Thursday Preview: Sheffield Wednesday Vs Crystal Palace
From my experience, football fans tend to enjoy hypothetical conversations. Whether it’s conjecturing which lower league strikers would look good a level up, compiling themed-XIs, or arguing the toss over club versus country scenarios (for the record, The Two Unfortunates advocates the “I’d rather see my team win a corner kick in the 90th minute when they’re 3-0 down than England win the World Cup” stance), us supporters are more than partial to a bit of football fancy.Another such whimsy is whether you’d prefer your team to sort its status out with time to spare, or whether you’d opt in…
The Thursday Preview: Sheffield Wednesday Vs Sheffield United
Like my Preview of a couple of weeks ago, I’m looking ahead tonight towards another high-stakes end-of-season derby. With just three games to go until we reach 46, plenty of fans are now firmly ensconced in that period of squeakiness where hearts and minds are dominated by as yet unrealized permutations and eventualities, and, other than our own team’s fixture this weekend, it’s Sunday’s Steel City Derby which probably holds the most interest for us fans.That’s because in all likelihood it (a) represents the opportunity for Wednesday to avoid joining Peterborough and Plymouth in the League One cull, and (b)…
The Thursday Preview: Coventry City Vs. Sheffield Wednesday
Luke Varney’s late burst to vanquish Watford in a trademark relegation six pointer last night will have temporarily lessened the pressure on a battling Owls side. After a honeymoon period punctuated by a trio of January wins, Alan Irvine’s February was less enjoyable with back to back home defeats against Ipswich and Doncaster providing a particularly horrid memory. Varney is a crowd satisfier: his industrious style contrasting sharply with that of onetime £10 million man Francis Jeffers; the former’s slow rise up the divisions has made him a more endearing, maybe better professional whereas Jeffers’ descent to that same level…
Championship Letters 10: Paul Sturrock as Michael Henchard
What happens to those managers who suddenly find there’s no longer a place for them in the game? Like Michael Henchard, the tragic lead in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge who dies bankrupt and discredited, one fears that there’s no way that Paul Sturrock will be able to correct his sullied record and that he will see out his Saturdays in front of Jeff Stelling & co. The comparison runs deeper. For the guilt that hangs over Henchard’s head for much of his life after selling his wife and child at market, read Sturrock’s regretful decision to leave the…
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