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The 'what do you know about Sheffield Wednesday' thread
AFKABartram
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Love this lower level 'park football' league we're in. Game tomorrow, haven't a clue who their manager is, and can name only two of their players (Jeffers and Tudgay).
So enlighten me. Current and past, what do you know about Sheffield Wednesday ?
So enlighten me. Current and past, what do you know about Sheffield Wednesday ?
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we played them january before last, and it was fookin' cold.0
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they used to line the streets and to 'welcome' away fans from the station, especially cockney twats. Was my first ever norvern away game in about 82 I think. Went there about half a dozen times and dont remember seeing us win there.0
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does Imre Varadi still play for them ?0
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They wear Blue and White Stripes0
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Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David "Bronco" Lane all played for Sheffield Wednesday and got banned for life in the sixties bribery scandal.
The ringleader was a bloke called Jimmy Gauld who played for us in the mid fifties!0 -
their ground is near Middlesborough0
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Imre Varadi always tore our defence apart0
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contrary to their name - they also play on Saturdays0
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i have a pic of the ground empty, and it has an owl on the seats on the stand opposite the away end and lots of poles holding the roof up so you can't see everything.
I'm good at this.0 -
Jimmy Seed (& Trotter) played for them0
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[cite]Posted By: DaveMehmet[/cite]Jimmy Seed (& Trotter) played for them
so did Bob Bolder, Peter Shirtliff and John Pearson.0 -
They're a northern team who are on a day trip to South London to get a nice spanking tomorrow.0
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They were originally known as The Pidgeon Fanciers, but upgraded to The Owls when the Premiership was formed. FACT0
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they had a shiite ex player of ours who somehow later turned up playing for them in the top division of the day, Lawrie Madden.0
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All men in Sheffield sleep on the left of their beds in memory of their town's founder Sheridan "Bath Breaker" Field. He argued with his wife on the night of their marriage that he should sleep on the left but she disagreed. He eventually conceded and slept on the right only to be woken up in the night by a noise from upstairs. As he sat up a bath fell through the ceiling and split in two on his head, killing him instantly. It is also illegal to have a bath in Sheffield on 26th February, the date of his death.0
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brian laws is the manager
chris brunt - does he still play for them.[cite]Posted By: LenGlover[/cite][cite]Posted By: DaveMehmet[/cite]Jimmy Seed (& Trotter) played for them
so did Bob Bolder, Peter Shirtliff and John Pearson.
and paul williams0 -
Paul Williams used to work in an office during the summer if I recall correctly - wanted to have options after his football career, just shows you how times have moved on.0
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brian laws is the manager
chris brunt - does he still play for them.
Posted By: LenGlover
Posted By: DaveMehmet
Jimmy Seed (& Trotter) played for them
so did Bob Bolder, Peter Shirtliff and John Pearson.
and paul williams
and Steve Mckenzie, Mark Bright & Gordon Watson0 -
They have a snooker hall in town.0
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The city had/has a very welcoming massage parlour of 'high repute' called The Bird of Paradise.
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Sheffield was formed in 1998, after popular TV cook Jamie Oliver, opened an outdoor BBQ teaching school on a wasteland 166 miles north of Londinium.1
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was he playing for sheff wed when he shoved alcock?0
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In Subbuteo, you can use Argentina if you haven't got the official Sheffield Wednesday team and vice versa.0
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[cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]was he playing for sheff wed when he shoved alcock?
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[cite]Posted By: suzisausage[/cite]was he playing for sheff wed when he shoved alcock?
yes he was.
Very few people know though that the poor ref was late replacement for Peter Brain, and is where the popular expression 'all cock and no brains' stems from. FACT0 -
If you drive a brown car in Sheffield watch out! You are likely to get it pelted with rotten eggs! On July 2nd 1982, Mr A. G. Weaves of Humberside was visiting relatives in the area when he was delayed in his brown Ford Escort by a passing town parade. Seeing a large gap in the procession he nipped across the road without noticing that there was no gap. He had run over the town's mascot, a chicken called "Karen Chicken". The town went into three days of mourning before pelting Mr Weaves to death with eggs. A Vauxhall garage was burnt to the ground in 1995 for trying to sell a brown Nova.
These are all facts from "Know your Sheffield" by Paul Le Otherone - a good read by the way.0 -
The only good thing to come out of Sheffield is me - I once went through it on a train0
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[cite]Posted By: Sco[/cite]If you drive a brown car in Sheffield watch out! You are likely to get it pelted with rotten eggs! On July 2nd 1982, Mr A. G. Weaves of Humberside was visiting relatives in the area when he was delayed in his brown Ford Escort by a passing town parade. Seeing a large gap in the procession he nipped across the road without noticing that there was no gap. He had run over the town's mascot, a chicken called "Karen Chicken". The town went into three days of mourning before pelting Mr Weaves to death with eggs. A Vauxhall garage was burnt to the ground in 1995 for trying to sell a brown Nova.
These are all facts from "Know your Sheffield" by Paul Le Otherone - a good read by the way.
i surrender, you've beat me !!0 -
Ah, found a football related fact in my new favourite book:
"Sheffield Wednesday should, in fact, be known as 'Sheffield Thursday'. Its founder, Mr Willaby Flapjack, was an inventor who came up with the world's first and only known time machine. The only shortcoming of his machine was that it could only travel backwards in time by 24 hours. Having missed the Wednesday deadline for league registration due to a poor heart condition, he forced himself out of bed the following day and used his time machine for the first time to get him to the league's office on time. So proud was he of his efforts that he registered the team as 'Sheffield Wednesday' before collapsing and then dying on the way to the hospital. The correct method for using the time machine alas died with him."0 -
we went to a club in sheffield on the night that we played them in the cup the other january.
the arctic monkeys were there drinking with their mates, and alex sat facing the wall texting.
Great club.0
