The Sheffield Wednesday Herald
Market16 Nov 2026
Mitchel Bakker wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Sheffield Wednesday
Liam Cooper and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tayo Adaramola 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Mitchel Bakker story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mitchel Bakker signs something — a contract at Sheffield Wednesday or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Gabriel Otegbayo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sheffield Wednesday will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Charlie McNeill’s exile
3 goals in 12 games at Crewe Alexandra — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Sheffield Wednesday updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Liam Palmer has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Liam Palmer has written the date down.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tiago Gabriel finally belongs at Sheffield Wednesday
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Home comforts ahead for Sheffield Wednesday
Blackburn Rovers, position 12, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
In brief
- The dugout Louie Barry keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Joel Ndala in the team of the week — 6.73