SiJ Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Happy Birthday, Sheffield Wednesday. Happy Birthday, ya daft git. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastleigh Owl Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Well said Grandad and a Happy Birthday Sheffield Wednesday Football Club- May we have many, many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 1 minute ago, scram said: I think the highest of highs for me was us being genuinely one of the very best and most entertaining footballing sides i've ever had the pleasure to watch - generally under Big Ron In typical Wednesday fashion we didn't always win no matter how much we outplayed our opponents - we flew by the seat of our pants at times too - but bloody hell it was magnificent I remember wearing my Owls shirt in a pub in a relatively small town/village near Watford after the Blackburn away semi - and a random guy came up to me and shook my hand then said it was the best half of football he had ever seen from any team ever! But this is Wednesday and those moments aren't the norm - and that's kinda what makes it so special My absolutest favourite chant of all time was then - the incredibly arrogant "We're gonna score in a minute" because it was usually true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Just think if we can get promoted this season or relatively soon. To think of how mental we all went after a couple of promotions from League One. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WatfordOwl Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Sheffield Wednesday is a marriage - til death do us part. Great OP. UTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRADDO Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 1 minute ago, Grandad said: we all have similar experiences - please share them! Its what makes us a big family. We all fall out from time to time - but if anybody crosses us, we stick together I'm going to join you tonight in having a drink and in honour of our 150th year. As I toast the club, I'll also say a few words to my loved ones, no longer with us but whom played a significant role in becoming a staunch Owls fan. I now have the pleasure of passing on their passion through me, to my little uns. It never leaves you does it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owler66 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 I can go back to my great Grandad who was born in 1880 when the club was just 13yrs old,Happy Birthday Wednesday would hate to support another club even though you drive me mad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chardron Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 A lovely post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OWL1969 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Great post Grandad, echoed by us all Happy 150th Birthday Wednesday we love you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scram Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 12 minutes ago, Whitechapel Owl said: Meadowhall is older than that innit? Theres a plaque in there that says it was (officially?) opened on 4th September 1998 - which is the day my daughter was born so no way i can forget that! But far more importantly i'm genuinely delighted that my daughter was born on Wednesday's official birthday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 16 minutes ago, BRADDO said: I remember seeing your Grandad many times at Hillsborough. You must be very proud, he's part of our history. He was my hero growing up, we went everywhere together. Which invariably meant Hillsborough. A lot. Might not make sense - but I was actually relieved he passed away before the Hillsborough Disaster, That would have absiolutely broken his heart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 It's 'our lass's' birthday today and I've always told her I remember when it is because it's the day before Wednesday's birthday. Drives her nuts bless her. Great OP Grandad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almat Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) 5 minutes ago, scram said: Theres a plaque in there that says it was (officially?) opened on 4th September 1998 - which is the day my daughter was born so no way i can forget that! But far more importantly i'm genuinely delighted that my daughter was born on Wednesday's official birthday! Should have gone to specsavers it was actually opened on 4th September 1990 Edited September 3, 2017 by Almat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owler66 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 1 minute ago, scram said: Theres a plaque in there that says it was (officially?) opened on 4th September 1998 - which is the day my daughter was born so no way i can forget that! But far more importantly i'm genuinely delighted that my daughter was born on Wednesday's official birthday! It was 1990 did you have your glasses on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 One of my most special memories is of taking my daughter to Hillsborough on the afternoon of her first birthday, buying her her first Wednesday shirt, and the groundsman letting her go for a crawl on the pitch just in front of the North Stand. Then back home for her birthday party (which seemed a bit of an anti climax after that tbf) :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Yep. According to Wiki Meadowhall was open in 1990. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
888 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 21 minutes ago, Grandad said: Tomorrow my (our) football club Sheffield Wednesday become 150 years old. They're the love of my life, other than my family. The one constant for me, through growing up, attending away games on my own as a teenager, through marriage, the birth of my children, divorce, relationship ups and downs, numerous jobs, house moves, lots of turmoil, the loss of loved ones... Theres been ups, and downs. Lots of downs. I was introduced by my parents, but mostly by my Grandad. He was the commissionaire at Hillsborough for over 40 years - heres a pic of him at the side of Big Jack. And my Nan too, she went home and away watching Wednesday with her friend Nellie Moore on the Swallownest Supporters Club buses.. I was sat with Grandad at a match at Hillsborough when he received the news that my Nan had had a heart attack at home - and he rushed home to spend his last few hours with her. Grandad put Wednesday first all the time. He'd miss a family wedding if Wednesday had a reserve game. When he hit 80, and the pneumoconiosis he'd contracted from a life on the coal face meant his breathing was so bad he couldnt get up the stairs to see Wednesday, a little part of him had already left us when he passed away later that year. He lived and breathed Wednesday, and he instilled that into me. Like any relationship its not always been easy. The love has been tested, many times, but it just seems to grow stronger. The highs of seeing us promoted back to Division One under Howard Wilkinson, beating Liverpool at Anfield the following season after we'd chanted 'We'll Be Back' as they beat us in the Cup during the promotion season, the semi final at Highbury v Brighton (and spending most of the game behind a huge Zico Sterland banner), beating Utd at Wembley in the Steel City Semi Final, the John Sheridan goal in the League Cup Final, the elation of beating Brighton in the Play Off Semi Final and holding my son incredibly tight with tears rolling down my cheeks knowing that he would finally get to Wembley for the first time, as he had done just as I'd done and waited until he could do it watching his own team for his first trip... I won't list the lows - because tonight they don't matter. Tonight I'm going to enjoy a quiet drink, and toast the club to whom I've devoted my life. And to my Grandad, and my Nan. And tomorrow night I will celebrate with friends at the celebratory dinner. And Guest of Honour on our table will be my Mum, who at 80 years old has been attending Hillsborough since before she could walk, as just like me she was carried to the games as a baby. And shes still there, week in, week out now, along with my sister Louise. And how I wish Dad could have been there with her. Happy 150th Sheffield Wednesday. A true family club Thank you for making this post , it is warming to have this perspective of the club , many thousands of people will have seen your grandad at the ground and it will have brought back memories to many a supporter best thing i have read on owlstalk , a truly touching and hart felt story , 40+ years service to the club truly is worthy of a mention also its all part of the match day experience many people take for granted but makes the difference to many excellent insight from a Wednesday family man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scram Posted September 3, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted September 3, 2017 Oh shyte Just realised my daughter is actually 29 tomorrow... *she's not - she's 19 **should have gone to specsavers definitely! 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRADDO Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 12 minutes ago, scram said: I think the highest of highs for me was us being genuinely one of the very best and most entertaining footballing sides i've ever had the pleasure to watch - generally under Big Ron In typical Wednesday fashion we didn't always win no matter how much we outplayed our opponents - we flew by the seat of our pants at times too - but bloody hell it was magnificent I remember wearing my Owls shirt in a pub in a relatively small town/village near Watford after the Blackburn away semi - and a random guy came up to me and shook my hand then said it was the best half of football he had ever seen from any team ever! But this is Wednesday and those moments aren't the norm - and that's kinda what makes it so special We were good that night at blackburn weren't we! Very good indeed. But at that time it was the norm. I'm sure there was some stat around at the time that said we were THE form team in Europe. If ever a side deserved to win a major trophy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deleted member Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 2 minutes ago, 888 said: Thank you for making this post , it is warming to have this perspective of the club , many thousands of people will have seen your grandad at the ground and it will have brought back memories to many a supporter best thing i have read on owlstalk , a truly touching and hart felt story , 40+ years service to the club truly is worthy of a mention also its all part of the match day experience many people take for granted but makes the difference to many excellent insight from a Wednesday family man Thank you. I'm sure many many others have similar experiences to share - and like someone has said earlier - I think its important we should share that rather than looking at the club. We ARE the club, all of us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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