They played each other in the League Cup Final as well that year and the FA Cup Final replay was midweek five days later so I bet a lot couldn't afford it and how were they supposed to get home unless they went on coach or car?
Don't bring up inconvenient points like that, Pete. We of course would have taken many more despite being a tiny hamlet compared to the immense Sheffield.
Incredibly Sheffield Wedneaday forty times league champions 11 European titles and the only team for which Lionel Messi was heard to say ' Barca may be big but the Owls now that's a football club' believe they can sell 800,000 tickets for Saturday against non league minnows Hull CIty. Many of their average gate of over 97,000 believe a club like Hull should receive no tickets in fact many Owlets argue that so superior is everything about the mighty North Derbyshire Giants that it would be a travesty and an insult to world football if Hull CIty even turned up. Over on the many message boards aglow with stories of ferret/ men love triangles in mexborough desperate wendies are convinced that they are being denied their true ticket allocation because for some reason the football league think that little tiny Hull should receive the same number of tickets as the Owls. To redress the balance it Now being strongly suggested that if any of the several dozen Tigers fans do turn up out of respect they should wear the wendies world famous blue and white striped shirt and cheer on the already promoted owls.
I'm predicting the usual anti HCFC bias on the panel next week, lump on Waddle and Mark Bright. Peter Rodrigues is available too, with David Sunley and Ken Knighton on standby as Doppelgangers.
maidstoneowl Reserve Team Player please log in to view this image Sheffield Wednesday Fan please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 720 posts Posted 21 May 2016 - 12:59 PM Apparently they're in disarray behind the scenes - talks of Bruce getting the chop if they lose! Plus some player unrest / split changing room! This is all GOOD for us Somebody give this lad a slap.
Blimey I thought our current nameless crest was disappointing, but to have an eyeless parrot on its perch beats it hands down.
I know that it's officially now a Unitary Authority within North Yorkshire, and that, until 1968, it was a County Borough, but - in my experience - the years that it spent under the guise of the County Borough of Teesside and then the County of Cleveland are the ones that seem to have had the biggest impression on local identity up there. People see themselves as being from Teesside, rather than Yorkshire, probably because there are far more people still around from that era, than from pre-1968.
Often named as one of the greatest Yorkshireman, Capt James Cook was from Marton, which is now part of Middlesbrough. Yorkshire played county matches there, as they did in Hull. Brian Clough had his wife go back to Middlesbrough for the birth of Nigel so he would qualify to play for Yorksire. Of course one theory is that if Geordies don't want them and Yorkies don't want them then stick them in Middlesbrough.
