sexpistol Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Imre Varadi's Conker said: I remember being at this one. We'd been on an awful run, I remember beating Man City but apart from that it seemed like 10 games without a win. Then all hell broke loose..... I remember it well. I was sat in the South stand that game. I haven’t watched the footage back yet but didn’t Chapman have a goal ruled out despite it being well over the line. So it should have been 8-1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swfc4_sufc0 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6 hours ago, Inspector Lestrade said: Do we have to do this? Agreed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 best win was the 0-8 at aldershot ...for that one i stayed till the end ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitecap Owl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 ALL these years later still remember like it was yesterday... Big Jack hoisting the 2nd Division champions trophy at Boro... We had absolutely no chance after that ... an 8-0 drubbing at Ayresome park.... April 18th (ish) 1974... Peter Springett was left adrift by the hapless defense that day... still have nightmares about that game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sefton owl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 7 hours ago, areNOTwhatTHEYseem said: These come from a longer article on the topic of thrashings from The Athletic, but there are two sections relevant to Wednesday. Firstly, a memory we'd all rather forget: Newcastle United 8 Sheffield Wednesday 0, September 1999 Jon Newsome recalls… An awful day from start to finish. We were the bottom two in the Premier League, so this was a big opportunity for us to get some points on the board. But Alan Shearer was unplayable. Everything he hit went in and it turned into a total nightmare. No professional team should ever lose by that margin but it was a sign of where the club was at. There was no togetherness in the dressing room. Too many cliques here and there, and too much “them” and “us”. Wednesday went down that season and I doubt anyone was surprised. On a personal level, that day finished my career. I took a whack on the knee as someone ran past and caught me. A nothing incident, really. But I ended up having two or three operations and never played again. I was 28. I played on in that game against Newcastle, mind. Mainly because me and the manager, Danny Wilson, weren’t getting on. He kept playing me at right-back but I didn’t want to play there. Who’s ever heard of a 6ft 4in right-back? We were at loggerheads over it, so there was no way I was coming off. Not even at half-time, when the score was already 4-0 and I was in real trouble with the knee. I wasn’t giving the manager the opportunity to think I was ducking out. That second half was embarrassing. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me as Newcastle made it six, seven and then eight (all between the 78th and 84th minutes). Shearer ended up with five goals. I remember looking at the clock and thinking, “Has it stopped?” I just wanted the afternoon to end. And secondly, a much fonder recent memory: Sheffield Wednesday 6 Leeds United 0, January 2014 Matt Smith recalls… The first thing to say is that if it hadn’t been for my red card, I don’t think people would talk much about the game so much. It would have been 3-0 or 4-0 rather than six but as it was, it felt as bad as it looked. To this day, it’s the only game I’ve played in which my mum and dad have left early. The abuse I was getting was too much for them. But it was kind of hard to blame the away supporters for being so irate. I came on at half-time and was out there for about a minute. There was no malice in my challenge, genuinely, but I caught Reda Johnson with my elbow as I went for a header and Lee Probert, the referee, came across straight away and said, “Smithy, that’s a red card.” I couldn’t believe it. I’ve still got a picture on my phone of the mock-up someone did on Twitter afterwards: the Gone In 60 Seconds movie poster with me and (then Leeds manager) Brian McDermott as Nicolas Cage and whoever else was on it originally. A few weeks later, I saw Reda Johnson in Manchester. He apologised for making a meal of the challenge and offered to buy me a drink, which tells you everything. But sitting in the dressing room, you feel like an absolute idiot. A week earlier, we’d lost at Rochdale in the FA Cup and if I’m being honest, that was worse. Brian sent us over to applaud the crowd at full-time and understandably, they battered us. It was quiet in the dressing room after Rochdale and not much was said. Without going into detail, at Hillsborough, a lot was said. It becomes a matter of personal pride. You can’t really hold back when it gets that bad. We were never going to recover as a squad. The events of that January tore the wheels of the club clean off. There was the attempt to sack Brian, Massimo Cellino arrived, people were being treated terribly and it went from a bouncy club before Christmas to being like a graveyard. The game at Sheffield Wednesday summed it all up. There was no coming back from that. That leeds game was part of my uncles stag do.... Was a phenomenal day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imre Varadi's Conker Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, steelerian said: worst commentator ever ^^^^^ Frank Sidebottom at his best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mildatheart67 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Didn't we thump Stockport in the cup ,a replay held at Maine Road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt68owls Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6 hours ago, Pablo Bonvin said: The 8-0 away win at Aldershot in the cup in the late 80s. If i recall we were playing cr@p in the league at the time so even beating a fourth division side was not a given, let alone stuffing them. we drew the 1st leg at home 0-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt68owls Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 19 minutes ago, mildatheart67 said: Didn't we thump Stockport in the cup ,a replay held at Maine Road? i was just going to mention this, finished 7-0 i think in front of about 2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torryowl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 my biggest home league win would be the 7-0 against burnley biggest away league win probably notts county 1-5 ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt68owls Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 my dad always talks about beating man utd 2-7 in the fa cup at Old Trafford and the 5-4 at Hillsborough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrensallOwl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 7 hours ago, Paddyowl said: The 7-1 defeat at Highbury was hard to take, we were still in the game after an hour, never seen a team crumble like that so quickly. Sat directly behind the Arsenal fans as well, got a little heated as you can imagine. Me & a couple of mates were at that one, We were in the clock end & some gooner threw a paint scraper & it caught my mate above the eye. Pretty much summed up the weekend really. Wasn't it 2-1 after about 75 minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mildatheart67 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Under Jack's promotion season think he dished a couple of hidings out,think Rotherham and Bury and one other were hit for 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shetland Owl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 remember staying till the end of the 8-0 defeat at Middlesboro, got back to the coach that had every window smashed in. Also went down to QPR where we lost 8-2 and stayed until the end again, glutton for punishment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mildatheart67 Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 We tonked the mighty Spora Luxemburg too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkskaphil Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 Don't think I've ever seen Wednesday score more than four in a game. 4-2 against Hartlepool in the Play-off Final, 4-1 against Charlton just after Lee Strafford took over, a couple of 4-1s at MK Dons (one a pre-season friendly). Seen us get a few absolute hammerings though: 7-1 at Arsenal, 5-1 at West Ham, 6-0 at Reading, 5-1 at Exeter, 5-1 at Stevenage, 4-0 at Leyton Orient, 4-0 at Fulham. My overall goal difference must be frightening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexpistol Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6 hours ago, New Maple Staple said: I was at that game. The last 20 minutes was attack-shot-goal, attack-shot-goal. Weirdest/surrealist thing I've ever witnessed at a football match. I was at that game and at 70 minutes it was a very even game. First half I was sat with the Wednesday fans in the stand on the side towards to the clock end. I had a mate who sat with her family the other side of the lower tier and I knew there was a spare seat so I agreed to sit with them second half. Worthington equalised on the stroke of half time as I was getting up to go into the concourse to get to the other side. I was in Arsenal territory when I celebrated, one gooner wasn’t too happy and we had a little chat Anyway onto the second half and to sit with their fans and see us getting blitzed wasn’t much fun. Anders Limpar ran riot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexpistol Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 hour ago, matt68owls said: we drew the 1st leg at home 0-0 I remember that game as I got thrown out at half time for giving the v sign to the Wednesday players as they went down the tunnel. The office said to me, “This is a family club and we want none of that here” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toppOwl Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 8 hours ago, hirstyboywonder said: Sure it was still 1-1 with less than 20 minutes to go. I walked into a lamp post on the way to the ground (should have been an omen) it was 1-1 (Worthington for us I think) at half time and we were commenting on how we'd played well against our bogey side, come the second half and nearly everything they hit went in, we left at 6-1 and heard the cheers for their 7th as we walked away from Highbury, unbelievable Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolihullOwl79 Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 To think we lost 6-1 and 7-1 in the same season to Leeds and Arsenal, yet still finished 3rd (from top) and were in with a chance of taking the title with only 3 games left 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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