SteelCitySteve
Sheffield Wednesday fan
- Joined
- 3 Oct 2021
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Firstly, well done on your win yesterday – some excellent, slick play especially in the first half. Your midfield bossed ours in the main, though we improved as the game went on.
Dunkley and our keeper should have done much better with the goal, but it had been coming and I was actually quite relieved to go in at the break just 0-1 down (despite the fact we have a dreadful stat of never having won a game after conceding first, since early 2019!)
I noticed there were quite a few Oxford fans joining in with our support for our ex-player Jose Semedo on six minutes (he wore the number 6 shirt for us) - this was very much appreciated. He unfortunately lost his wife recently and, as a player who is held in great affection by Wednesday fans, we had been genuinely shocked to hear this news (at such a young age as well).
2nd half we came out with a bit more purpose, even managing to wake up the crowd (it’s not been very exciting at Hillsborough over recent years trust me, though yesterday was especially quiet I’ve got to say).
We started to build momentum and you could feel our goal was coming.
After that, the game could have gone either way. There was quite a bit of shall we say ‘game management’ going on from Mr Robinson, but that’s a feature of most games these days and I’m not going to point the finger at Oxford too much for this, as every side do it to one degree or another, including ourselves on occasion. It’s a side of the game I hate and I wish it could be stamped out – it’s designed to interrupt the flow of the game when one side is building momentum, which, like VAR, is ruining the spontaneity of the game we all love.
The ref had one of those games where the victors will praise him and the losers will loathe him. In other words, he got quite a few decisions wrong, but did it affect the outcome of the game – not really.
Obviously you’ll have enjoyed the last few minutes!
Anyway, that’s my two penneth worth. Your supporters did your club proud yesterday – good numbers and very vocal (we enjoyed our usual game of ‘is this a library’ bingo and you didn’t disappoint).
Hope you enjoyed your day out in our fair city (it’s not a s**thole by the way!) and we'll see you in January.
PS, despite what you might read on some internet forums, most Wednesday fans are not ‘billy big balls’ – we know where we are in the football firmament – a badly run, under-performing club with a great history, a big old, if slightly decrepit, ground and a loyal support. One day someone will buy us and turn the ship around – we live in hope!
Dunkley and our keeper should have done much better with the goal, but it had been coming and I was actually quite relieved to go in at the break just 0-1 down (despite the fact we have a dreadful stat of never having won a game after conceding first, since early 2019!)
I noticed there were quite a few Oxford fans joining in with our support for our ex-player Jose Semedo on six minutes (he wore the number 6 shirt for us) - this was very much appreciated. He unfortunately lost his wife recently and, as a player who is held in great affection by Wednesday fans, we had been genuinely shocked to hear this news (at such a young age as well).
2nd half we came out with a bit more purpose, even managing to wake up the crowd (it’s not been very exciting at Hillsborough over recent years trust me, though yesterday was especially quiet I’ve got to say).
We started to build momentum and you could feel our goal was coming.
After that, the game could have gone either way. There was quite a bit of shall we say ‘game management’ going on from Mr Robinson, but that’s a feature of most games these days and I’m not going to point the finger at Oxford too much for this, as every side do it to one degree or another, including ourselves on occasion. It’s a side of the game I hate and I wish it could be stamped out – it’s designed to interrupt the flow of the game when one side is building momentum, which, like VAR, is ruining the spontaneity of the game we all love.
The ref had one of those games where the victors will praise him and the losers will loathe him. In other words, he got quite a few decisions wrong, but did it affect the outcome of the game – not really.
Obviously you’ll have enjoyed the last few minutes!
Anyway, that’s my two penneth worth. Your supporters did your club proud yesterday – good numbers and very vocal (we enjoyed our usual game of ‘is this a library’ bingo and you didn’t disappoint).
Hope you enjoyed your day out in our fair city (it’s not a s**thole by the way!) and we'll see you in January.
PS, despite what you might read on some internet forums, most Wednesday fans are not ‘billy big balls’ – we know where we are in the football firmament – a badly run, under-performing club with a great history, a big old, if slightly decrepit, ground and a loyal support. One day someone will buy us and turn the ship around – we live in hope!