Guest Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 4 hours ago, markowl said: To be totally fair..... Dem Blades have decided to go to town on the fact they are the first United. We, as a club, don't make a big thing about our team name. That's why they (rightly) get ridiculed. Erm, of course we make a thing of our name. Our famous slogan is 'WAWAW' isn't it? Which technically has some basis in fact as you will see later in this post. This entire thread is about the moniker 'Wednesday' and yes, in the professional, modern game it is quite unique. Sadly, if anyone is really interested, the name isn't unique, in fact far from it. In the early days of football many clubs emerged from athletics clubs (which included cricket teams such as our own ancestry) and also church and chapel based clubs. Football emerged from these clubs as a pastime, to earn some money when the sports were thin on the ground and then to keep fit midweek, hence 'Wednesday football clubs' became a thing. The terminology was used across the entire country and there were literally hundreds of 'Wednesday football clubs' in the 1800's and early 1900's. It was just a common phrase of the day, that's all. As we were at the forefront of the Sheffield Rules we, naturally, were likely to be the first club to widely use the name, but this is probably not provable. In any case it was never unique, until we joined the Football League and then it became quite unique. The phrase (and clubs named as such) has since gone out of use, mainly. That leaves us with this rather lovely name that is known across the land as us, Sheffield Wednesday. DISCLAIMER: Just in case any dirty piggy pigs are reading this, the earliest known use of 'Wednesday football club' i have ever seen was attributed to us, so if you want to grasp at straws and claim we weren't the first 'Wednesday' then you will have to go to great lengths to prove it. Also, you are still our filthy placenta. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markowl Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 All very interesting, but my point was that we (as a club) don't go to town on the uniqueness of our name in the same way our porcine friends try to be 'the first United'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 Oh, and this is the first news clipping i know of with the 'Wednesday football club' moniker, from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph in 1867, just in case some filthbag wants to try to find proof of another Wednesday before then. But i doubt they will. All the ones above are later in the 1800's or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 (edited) Hang on, I made a bàlls up there, the first one was from the same publication but on the 6th of November. But strictly that was as 'Sheffield Wednesday Cricket and Football Club' and not 'Wednesday football club. But you get my point. Edited July 6, 2017 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highbury Owl Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 13 hours ago, The Dukeries Owl said: We are gods in Norway! Hmmm... Wasn't that Thor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonbones Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 14 hours ago, alanharper said: The other lot still falsely claim that they're the original United - they seem to think that if you repeat something often enough it becomes fact. The still claim they called us pigs first. What can you say, they lie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cognacbarnowl Posted July 6, 2017 Share Posted July 6, 2017 52 minutes ago, Highbury Owl said: Hmmm... Wasn't that Thor? Only if you have a lithp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dukeries Owl Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 5 hours ago, Highbury Owl said: Hmmm... Wasn't that Thor? Wednesday is derived from the God Wodin. It was originally called Wodinsday in Saxon times. Thor gave us Thursday or originally Thorsday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robowl84 Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 Was in Naples a couple weeks ago, none of the locals I spoke to had ever heard of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevtheowl Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 9 hours ago, Highbury Owl said: Hmmm... Wasn't that Thor? Possibly, but did you do know Thor was an owl. So maybe that's the connection UTO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moralturpitude Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 In Kenya in 2009, visited a Masai village and one of the young village men asked where we were from. I said Sheffield and he said 'ah Sheffield United?'. I was gutted. He didn't remember us being in the Premier League. This was after the men did the traditional jumping up as high as you can dance in the traditional garb, but as they were doing it a mobile phone flew out from under one of their robes - kind of shattered the whole illusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 1 hour ago, moralturpitude said: In Kenya in 2009, visited a Masai village and one of the young village men asked where we were from. I said Sheffield and he said 'ah Sheffield United?'. I was gutted. He didn't remember us being in the Premier League. This was after the men did the traditional jumping up as high as you can dance in the traditional garb, but as they were doing it a mobile phone flew out from under one of their robes - kind of shattered the whole illusion. Thats because it is an illusion. I lived in Kenya and the image tourists see is vastly different from the real Kenya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lees Tom Cat Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 They should name a day in the week after us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleo Posted July 7, 2017 Share Posted July 7, 2017 23 hours ago, pgmetcalf said: What annoys me most is when media football pundits and commentators just call us "Sheffield" Yeh, it's annoying getting mixed up with The Steelers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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