Anon

I absolutely despise that Wednesday game. It's the biggest gulf I've ever had between how I should feel and how I actually did feel after a game. We'd taken 6 points from a possible 42 and somehow survival was still in our own hands, win the game, be heroes. Simple. We couldn't even manage that, relying on a Cardiff equaliser against Rotherham. But we survived, so people were celebrating wildly. There was nothing to celebrate. A crap performance, from a crap team, to top off a crap season.

Well spotted. I was just testing you.

In an athletics stadium?   
... And be renamed "The Olympics"?  
 
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Do all 6 nations get automatic qualification? This is an extremely thinly veiled ploy to get Europe, South America, and Africa out of the bidding cycle for 2036. No prizes for guessing where that will be held and I can guarantee that tournament won't be "welcoming and uniting the world" by being spread across three continents.
I used to love the world cup and couldn't have even imagined how it could be ruined to such an extent that I lost all interest. With the 48 team free for all and nonsense like this FIFA have managed it.

Never, ever, ever, ever, going to happen - biggest whingers in football - the world's against them and they love to let everybody know it......

They are completely useless. Different club, but Chesterfield have a centre back called Jamie Grimes. He wears number 5 and as far as I'm aware has played centre back for every single club he's ever played for. Every week, without fail the BBC match report lists him as starting on the right wing.

They are completely useless. Different club, but Chesterfield have a centre back called Jamie Grimes. He wears number 5 and as far as I'm aware has played centre back for every single club he's ever played for. Every week, without fail the BBC match report lists him as starting on the right wing.

They are completely useless. Different club, but Chesterfield have a centre back called Jamie Grimes. He wears number 5 and as far as I'm aware has played centre back for every single club he's ever played for. Every week, without fail the BBC match report lists him as starting on the right wing.

They are completely useless. Different club, but Chesterfield have a centre back called Jamie Grimes. He wears number 5 and as far as I'm aware has played centre back for every single club he's ever played for. Every week, without fail the BBC match report lists him as starting on the right wing.

You're not wrong, but while fans continue to demand perpetual success at any cost, the problem won't go away. 

"She said Houghton accepted he had "gone too far" during "mutual goading" between the two sets of football fans and had searched for the image of Bradley after "being shown a Sheffield United badge" by Sunderland supporters."
Imagine being 31 years old and being so triggered by being shown a football club badge that you decide to mock a dead child.
 
"Sheffield Wednesday's chief operating officer Liam Dooley condemned Houghton's "utterly deplorable behaviour" which he said "in no way represents the values of the club"."
These kind of statements always make me laugh. Thank goodness Dooley clarified that mocking dead children isn't one of Sheffield Wednesday's core values. I really wasn't sure before now.

"She said Houghton accepted he had "gone too far" during "mutual goading" between the two sets of football fans and had searched for the image of Bradley after "being shown a Sheffield United badge" by Sunderland supporters."
Imagine being 31 years old and being so triggered by being shown a football club badge that you decide to mock a dead child.
 
"Sheffield Wednesday's chief operating officer Liam Dooley condemned Houghton's "utterly deplorable behaviour" which he said "in no way represents the values of the club"."
These kind of statements always make me laugh. Thank goodness Dooley clarified that mocking dead children isn't one of Sheffield Wednesday's core values. I really wasn't sure before now.

"She said Houghton accepted he had "gone too far" during "mutual goading" between the two sets of football fans and had searched for the image of Bradley after "being shown a Sheffield United badge" by Sunderland supporters."
Imagine being 31 years old and being so triggered by being shown a football club badge that you decide to mock a dead child.
 
"Sheffield Wednesday's chief operating officer Liam Dooley condemned Houghton's "utterly deplorable behaviour" which he said "in no way represents the values of the club"."
These kind of statements always make me laugh. Thank goodness Dooley clarified that mocking dead children isn't one of Sheffield Wednesday's core values. I really wasn't sure before now.

He was always known as a bit of a tart.

I could be a million miles away here, but was this our first ever league fixture? I think we played Bolton Wanderers away 1888.
Edit - year completely wrong, having seen the post above.

To add to this we had just fallen out of the premierhship as a disgrace … jewell then littered our squad with a plethora of absolute dog s**** players on decent contracts who clough had to literally freeze out of the squad to try and force them out of the club and off the wage bill. He then had to replace with bargain basement and kids all under the tight measures set by the americans and their plan to make us sustainable which basically meant we were under austerity measures. 
how many times did he have to name an incomplete bench that was made up largly of kids?
He steared us through and incredibly difficult time that under other managers could have ended far far worse.
im as critical as anyone for his sometimes frustratingly negative approach and trying and failing to see the game out by brining on another centre half and inviting pressure. Boro away still sticks in my head. 
 
but if ur talking recruitment of players then in my lifetime smith and clough stand out by a distance.
honourable mentions to burley and billy… til he got us promoted 

Best recruitment over the past 10/15 years was from Nigel Clough and he spent next to nothing….

For once, turning up late for a contest in Europe didn't do them any favours.
 

I absolutely despise that Wednesday game. It's the biggest gulf I've ever had between how I should feel and how I actually did feel after a game. We'd taken 6 points from a possible 42 and somehow survival was still in our own hands, win the game, be heroes. Simple. We couldn't even manage that, relying on a Cardiff equaliser against Rotherham. But we survived, so people were celebrating wildly. There was nothing to celebrate. A crap performance, from a crap team, to top off a crap season.

Stop paying players so much money. This isn't a defence of the shambolic way Scunthorpe has been run, but these situations are getting more and more common and we always go straight to hand wringing about fit and proper person tests and clubs as historic institutions. They're businesses and very few businesses could survive by paying almost their entire turnover out in wages. No one ever suggests that maybe, just maybe a league 2 footballer shouldn't be getting £75,000 per annum. Maybe Scunny will go the same way as Bury, but I can guarantee if they do most people will pretend that it's because the people in charge were malicious and somehow uniquely evil rather than the fact that the cost of keeping a competitive playing squad is becoming completely untenable for small town parochial clubs.

Stop paying players so much money. This isn't a defence of the shambolic way Scunthorpe has been run, but these situations are getting more and more common and we always go straight to hand wringing about fit and proper person tests and clubs as historic institutions. They're businesses and very few businesses could survive by paying almost their entire turnover out in wages. No one ever suggests that maybe, just maybe a league 2 footballer shouldn't be getting £75,000 per annum. Maybe Scunny will go the same way as Bury, but I can guarantee if they do most people will pretend that it's because the people in charge were malicious and somehow uniquely evil rather than the fact that the cost of keeping a competitive playing squad is becoming completely untenable for small town parochial clubs.

So the chairman has kicked Scunthorpe out of their own stadium, apparently, they will be paying at Gainsborough Trinity. Slight problem, nobody told Gainsborough Trinity.
 

The headlines the next day clearly had a different meaning back then! 
 

Under The Cosh with Mark O'Brien and his 2 heart surgeries he's been through. Sharing is caring they say so here it is if anyone fancies it.
It is a long video, over 2 hours, it's a podcast not a short form video. 
 

Then someone has supposedly corrected him by saying their too stupid 😂