The Owl Football Historian

Sunday 12 April 2009

Third Oldest League Club

Commonly, Wednesday are put 5th in the list of league clubs, but current research should actually place Wednesday in third place.

Chesterfield traditionally have a foundation date of 1866, but recent research actually puts the official foundation date in October.

Stoke claim a foundation date of 1863, but there is no evidence of their existance until 1868. Relying on heresay evidence for dates is very dangerous. Wednesday claimed a foundation date of 1866 for much of their history, until someone pointed out that the announcement of creation was made in 1867.

Oldest League Clubs

1864 Notts County

1865 Nottingham Forest
1867 Sheffield Wednesday (September)
1867 Chesterfield (October)
1868 Stoke

2008/2009 squad

1 Lee Grant

2 Tommy Spurr

3 Peter Gilbert

4 Kenny Lunt

5 Richard Hinds

6 Steve Watson

7 Marcus Tudgay

8 Sean McAllister

9 Francis Jeffers

10 Darren Potter

10 Deon Burton

11 Etienne Esajas

12 Rocky Lekaj

14 Luke Varney

14 Jimmy Smith

15 Mark Beevers

16 Richard Wood

17 James O'Connor

18 Leon Clarke

19 Michael Gray

19 Tony McMahon

20 Frank Simek

21 Lewis Buxton

22 Richard O'Donnell

23 Jermaine Johnson

24 Luke Boden

25 Liam McMenamin

26 Wade Small

27 Arron Jameson

28 Sam Liversidge

29 Bartosz Slusarski

30 Akpo Sodje

32 Nathan Modest

33 Max Wragg

Tuesday 24 July 2007

The 2007/2008 Wednesday Squad

1 Lee Grant Goalkeeper
2 Lee Bullen Defender
3 Peter Gilbert Defender
4 Kenny Lunt Midfielder
5 Richard Hinds Defender
6 Glenn Whelan Midfielder
7 Marcus Tudgay Striker
8 Burton O'Brien Midfielder
10 Deon Burton Striker
11 Chris Brunt Midfielder
12 Rocky Lekaj Midfielder
14 Sean McAllister Midfielder
15 Mark Beevers Defender
16 Richard Wood Defender
17 Steve Watson Defender
18 Leon Clarke Striker
19 Jason Bradley Striker
20 Frank Simek Defender
21 Dave McClements Midfielder
22 Richard O'Donnell Goalkeeper
23 Jermaine Johnson Midfielder
24 Luke Boden Striker
25 Liam McMenamin Defender
26 Wade Small Midfielder
27 Robert Burch Goalkeeper
28 James Kay Defender
30 David Graham Striker
31 Yoann Folly Midfielder
32 Tommy Spurr Defender
34 Matt Bowman Striker

Saturday 14 July 2007

Sheffield Wednesday Cricket Club 1840

From the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent - 4th July 1840

Cricket - Sheffield Wednesday Club v. Denton.

On Monday last, a match was commenced between eleven of the Sheffield Wednesday Club (those staunch and almost only supporters of the manly and truly English game of cricket, in this town.) and ten of the Denton club, with T. Marsden given. Denton is a village a little on this side of Manchester and its cricket club have at present the benefit of the superior abilities and judgement of the veteren Marsden.

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Marsden was one of the great players of the early part of the 19th century. Born of 1805, he died at the age of 37 in 1843, just three years after this match.
Marsden played for Sheffield, Yorkshire and England.

He was, however, on the losing side in this match.

Wednesday made 119 and 97
Denton made 55 and 83

So Wednesday won by 69 runs.

As with the early years of the football club, the cricket team are referred to as Sheffield Wednesday when they play 'foreign' teams, but the Wednesday Club when they play local teams.