I'm a bit sad

[Owl 44]

You might not be interested in this story but I wanted to tell it and didn't know where else to put it.

 

Before the match today, I happened to look up at the scoreboard. On there was a picture of Brenda Wydell, giving her birth and death dates. This came as a massive shock to me as I didn't know she had died.

 

Brenda was like a second mum to me in the early 90s. I was at uni, living in Huddersfield at the time and I was going out with her son. I spent every weekend at her house and she cooked me some great meals and looked after me. I was a Wednesday season ticket holder at the time, along with her son. Brenda started to share our love of football and became a first time season ticket holder herself in her late 50s. We went to every match, home and away in the 90s and shared joy and despair at Wembley in 93. 

 

I finished at uni and moved back home, breaking up with my boyfriend and losing touch with Brenda. We managed to get in touch a few years later and sent each other a letter and a Christmas card every year. Just before lockdown, we bumped into each other accidentally in Sainsburys just before a night match and had a lovely catch up. Today I found out she died.

 

RIP Brenda. She had been a Wednesday season ticket holder for nearly 30 years.

[PeakOwl]

RIP Brenda...

[hirstys_achilles]

Thanks for sharing. Lovely story. Another character not with us anymore. 

The Wednesday family always gives respect to friends and family of supporters who no longer with us. 

My commiserations to everyone who knew her. 

Should get a great view of every game from up above. 

Uto

[Deepcar_lights]

Glad you shared that. Interesting to hear story's like this from Wednesday supporters.

 

Brenda RIP

[goldensmoke]

Thanks for sharing that. How very sad indeed to find out by seeing her on the scoreboard. I very much send my condolences to you. 

Its hard to understand how thirty years have passed since those times, how twenties have turned to fifties, how we miss those who lived every moment of it with us who we miss so much. 
How is it that those ecstatic moments we shared where we nearly had it all could fade as they have? 
And here we are with the rain siling down in the autumn in the future, in Division 3, losing in the 93rd minute at home to Oxford.

 

There have to be more good times and memories to come? I always hoped I’d have a son one day to take to the match and now I do. It’s that which keeps me believing, however distant those happy times may seem.
 

Thanks again for posting on a poignant day.

 

[Owl 44]

5 hours ago, goldensmoke said:

Thanks for sharing that. How very sad indeed to find out by seeing her on the scoreboard. I very much send my condolences to you. 

Its hard to understand how thirty years have passed since those times, how twenties have turned to fifties, how we miss those who lived every moment of it with us who we miss so much. 
How is it that those ecstatic moments we shared where we nearly had it all could fade as they have? 
And here we are with the rain siling down in the autumn in the future, in Division 3, losing in the 93rd minute at home to Oxford.

 

There have to be more good times and memories to come? I always hoped I’d have a son one day to take to the match and now I do. It’s that which keeps me believing, however distant those happy times may seem.
 

Thanks again for posting on a poignant day.

 

Than you so much and you are so right. I was upset yesterday because of finding out about her death obviously but it also brought back memories, like you say, of those special moments we shared at Wembley, which I fear will never be repeated. 

[Kopparberg]

These people are so important that are committed to Wednesday. 
 

RIP 

[hirstys_achilles]

I often wonder about a guy who I used to stand near in the days of uncovered standing up on the kop. I was 14 when I started to go to games home and away with out my dad. Me and my school friends were all wanting our independence and the only place we could go which was away from each of our families was on the higher level of kop to the left hand side from pitch looking to kop. Until seating we never moved from this place. We stayed there because a Jamaican guy in his 50s was always there and he was the happiest funniest guy ever. Never knew his name. We called him Mr offside man. Reason being that every offside he would shout in his laughing Jamaican accent offside offside. 

When seating was introduced I never saw him again. If anyone else remembers him or knows him I would love to hear from you.