The Sheffield Wednesday Herald
Squad19 May 2031
19 days out for Yan Valery after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sheffield Wednesday will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 May 2031
The knee: Mathías Bordón out for 72 days
72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sheffield Wednesday lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 May 2031
Sheffield Wednesday sink to position 22
46 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market19 May 2031
Lucas Barrientos puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sheffield Wednesday, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 May 2031
Words exchanged at Sheffield Wednesday
Michael Mylona 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.
Squad19 May 2031
Josh Nichols falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market19 May 2031
One of our own: Christopher Walker joins the Sheffield Wednesday first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Walker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 May 2031
Sheffield Wednesday promote Luke Butler from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luke Butler has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market19 May 2031
One of our own: David Smith joins the Sheffield Wednesday first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout George Pickford gets it from the manager
- The dugout Ranel Young asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager makes Karlo Taslak a promise