Captain30 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 There's a new novel out this month called 'Mix Tape' where one of the main characters Dan Lawrence is a Wednesday fan. There's a great scene at the Arsenal FA Cup game of 1979 at Hillsborough where the fans threw snowballs at Pat Jennings and Big Jack strode out to sort them out. Only to get pelted himself. Book's set partly in Sheffield in the late 70s and features the local music scene with Human League and Comsat Angels. Author Jane Sanderson's from Barnsley - but don't hold that against her. Made me wonder if Wednesday been featured in any other ways in books or on film? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowl Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Sort of...excerpt from my comic fantasy novel THE BIGGS LEAP, a spoof detective story set in a parallel world where all the sprites (elves, dwarves and goblins etc.) moved to back in the day (people never see them these days!). It's a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story and is set in the city of Thursday Market...an assassination attempt is about to take place at the opening of the new stand. THURSDAY MARKET WEDNESDAY “So tell me again, Will…why are they called Thursday Market Wednesday? It just seems strange that other football clubs are called something dynamic like Rovers, Wanderers or Athletic.” Will sighed. “Thursday Market Wednesday Football Club was founded by local stallholders and shopkeepers…” “So why aren’t they called Thursday Market Thursday?” “If you let me finish…they couldn’t play football on Thursday because that was market day…the busiest day of the week…so they played on Wednesday which was half day closing…they had the afternoon off on Wednesday so they became known as The Wednesday Football Club…which was fine when they just played local matches. When they formed the national Football League and started playing against other towns and cities they became Thursday Market Wednesday F.C. Have you got that?” I nodded. “…because I’m not going to explain it again.” https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0995592039/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3 also available much cheaper as an ebook. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 A Very British Coup (Book/Film) is about a hypothetical socialist government taking power in the 1980s and has a few SWFC references. The Prime Minister, Harry Perkins is an ex steel worker from Sheffield and there are a few visual clues during the film. But there’s a part where he declines to meet the US Secretary of State with his aide telling him “It’s something to do with a Sheffield Wednesday”. The Movie Threads has a few references to Wednesday too - but only visually. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robowl4life Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Dead Mans Shoes... Some bloke wears a Wednesday hat. Think he dies. Hope this helps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ferkorf Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 7 minutes ago, robowl4life said: Dead Mans Shoes... Some bloke wears a Wednesday hat. Think he dies. Hope this helps. Yeh they send him up to the farmhouse and accidentally shoot him with a rifle. What a film that is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cognacbarnowl Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 There's a whole fred on this subject from a while back. Lots of references to us in movies n books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apswfcowl Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Few on here pal; https://www.waterstones.com/books/search/term/sheffield+wednesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 no idea of the films title but some English sailors pick up a german seaman out the north sea give him some dry clothes (striped pyjamas) and say there you fritz your Sheffield Wednesday ….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, torryowl said: no idea of the films title but some English sailors pick up a german seaman out the north sea give him some dry clothes (striped pyjamas) and say there you fritz your Sheffield Wednesday ….. We dive at dawn, john mills 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malek Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Was it Danzel and Pasco where they find dead body with Wednesday scarf on. And one of them concludes that reason of death is obvious. Then there is great episode of The Detectives whhere they try to name all different extentions to Football League clubs like United, City, Rovers... Great stuff. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmontonowl Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 From the telly there's our very own Tommy Craig in Corrie and he leads the charge again in Murdoch Mysteries from a couple of years ago as he follows The Wednesday from Toronto to League Championship glory in 1905 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S36 OWL Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 1 hour ago, cognacbarnowl said: There's a whole fred on this subject from a while back. Lots of references to us in movies n books. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerson Thome Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Quote best news of week was Wednesday beating Forest three-flipping-one. Take that you scabby flipping rumblezoids From GB84 by David Peace, set during the miners strike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerson Thome Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 *or something like that, minus the swear filter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casbahowl Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, edmontonowl said: From the telly there's our very own Tommy Craig in Corrie and he leads the charge again in Murdoch Mysteries from a couple of years ago as he follows The Wednesday from Toronto to League Championship glory in 1905 Edited January 26, 2020 by casbahowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casbahowl Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Sporting an original Wednesday scarf from the day too for historical accuracy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG D Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) There used to be a Wednesday mug on the table in Selwyn Froggitt Edited January 26, 2020 by BIG D 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAT OWL Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, sherlyegg said: We dive at dawn, john mills "Sheffield Wednesday" albeit its a hooped top not a striped one! (37:02) - Although thinking about it we may have played in Hoops in 44/45 Edited January 26, 2020 by FAT OWL additional info 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owler66 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 9 hours ago, torryowl said: no idea of the films title but some English sailors pick up a german seaman out the north sea give him some dry clothes (striped pyjamas) and say there you fritz your Sheffield Wednesday ….. Borners first day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherlyegg Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 2 hours ago, FAT OWL said: "Sheffield Wednesday" albeit its a hooped top not a striped one! (37:02) - Although thinking about it we may have played in Hoops in 44/45 45/46 according to historical football kits website. Though the film was released in 1943..perhaps the producers knew a kit change was coming.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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