The Sheffield Wednesday Herald
Squad7 Dec 2026
Thomas Streets damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Joel Ndala was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 40. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Sheffield Wednesday
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Louie Barry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Sheffield Wednesday
Liam Cooper and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match5 Dec 2026
Swansea City take the points off Sheffield Wednesday
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Liam Palmer stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Liam Palmer and Sheffield Wednesday agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Thomas Matthews faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Thomas Matthews after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Reece James gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Joe Lumley faces his old club
Southampton next, and one man in the Sheffield Wednesday dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Market Sheffield Wednesday and Zech Medley are talking past each other
- The dugout Liam Palmer does not fit this one
- Market Sheffield Wednesday pick up Luc Netten for nothing