| 2001-2002 |  | A 9-stripe shirt for the first time. this time made by Diadora. Unfortunately still marred by the Chupa Chups monstrosity. |
2000-2001 | Back to blue and white stripes all over. This time the stripes are wider with a 5 stripe pattern on the front. The big yellow Chupa Chups is incongruous. |
Saturday, 16 June 2007
Sheffield Wednesday Kit 2000 - 2002
Twin perform at Hillsborough
The local starlets, ingeniously known as “Twin” managed to get off on the wrong foot by telling fans to “f**k off” as they were welcomed on to the pitch at Hillsborough.
Then, as they performed cover version of Slade classic “Cum on Feel the Noize” at half time, they flicked ‘V signs’ at the visiting Barnsley fans and upon receiving a chorus of boos in response, they again called upon their limited vocabulary to tell the fans to “f**koff” once again.
However, it seems no publicity as bad publicity as the chavvy duo’s antics resulted in columns upon columns of newsprint and appearances on the telly.
Wednesday Art
JOE SCARBOROUGH
Great Events
Born in Sheffield in 1938
Scarborough has completed many commissions for large works, including 'The Student Olympics' and 'The Sheffield Marathon' for the Sheffield Town Council, as well as commissions for various sporting clubs including the Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal football clubs.
Terry Gorman
Terry Gorman was born in Sheffield in 1935 and grew up in the city. After serving with the RAF he joined the city ambulance service. An injury forced him into early retirement after 30 years service. This was when a painting hobby was developed into a full-time occupation. Terry has seen many changes in Sheffield over the years and has specialised in recreating nostalgic scenes of the city.
Bill Kirby
Painted "One for the Kop"
John Warburton
Painted "The Hillsborough Roar" - representing the FA Cup quarter final between Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal in 1936.
'Hillsborough'
George Eisler (1928 - 1998)
This painting depicts a scene from the Hillsborough disaster of 15 April 1989.
Anglo Italian Cup
At the end of the terrible 1969-1970 season Wednesday played in the inaugural Anglo-Italian Tournament where they were drawn against Naopli and Juventus.
30,000 saw Wednesday lose 5-1 in southern Italy, while only 10,000 saw a 4-3 victory in the return. A similar number watched a 0-0 against Juventus at Hillsborough before Wednesday bowed out of the competition with a 2-0 loss in Turin.
v. Napoli (a) 1-5 30000
scorers :- own goal
v. Napoli (h) 4-3 10,166
Scorers :- Warboys 2, Downes 2
v. Juventus (a) 0-2
v. Juventus (h) 0-0 9,495
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Monday, 4 June 2007
Sheffield Wednesday Badge
There was no obvious club badge, or crest (that I have found) before the 1930's. Official documents just used the club title. However in 1907/8 the Sheffield Star launched the Saturday Sport Special - called the Green'Un. The cartoonist of the Green'Un began representing Wednesday as a spindly legged Owl and United (The Cutlers) as a cut throat razor..
After a couple of years the Owl had a make-over becoming a portly, top hat and spats, cigar smoking gent, while United's razor had developed into a cigarette smoking, flat capped blade.
The first sign of an Owl badge connected to Wednesday came in the form of the supporters club badge, which represented an owl in front of a football. This remained the badge of the supporters club until at least the late 1960's.
Up until the 1930's, the programmes had been almost entirely text based, but by 1935 Wednesday had introduced their first banner headline. This included an incorrect establishment date for the club of 1866, a picture of the ground looking over the corner of the South Stand and East Bank, and the dates of Wednesday's honours (which sadly would be barely different form a similar list in today's programmes.)
By 1950/51 Wednesday had developed a crest consisting of the club initials over the city crest (sheaves of corn and crossed arrows).
In 1956/57 Wednesday introduced a club badge which included the motto, "consilio et animis". The owl is sitting on a branch over the white rose (for Yorkshire) with crossed arrows in the upper corners.
For the centenary year (they had sorted out the correct year of Wednesday's foundation by then) Wednesday decided to introduce a new mascot (Wednesday did have a monkey for a mascot briefly when someone gave McConnell,a relatively new signing from Sunderland in 1908, a monkey called "Jacko").For better or for worse, Ozzie now attends home matches with a number of his relatives.
Looking like an outcast from the children's TV programme "The Herbs", this short, fat-arsed, big eyed monstrosity was thankfully short lived - appearing in 1971 and disappearing shortly thereafter.
The line art, minimalist owl came into being just as Wednesday were going through the worst patch in their history (and difficult though it is to believe, they were much worse than today's overpaid, underachieving bunch.) A competition was held to design a new badge. The winner was a student at the University. The badge came into use around the 1971/2 season.
The badge remained unchanged through the 70's, 80's and early 90's until the 95/96 and the introduction of the faux-Birmingham shirt. The minimalist owl briefly disappeared, to be replaced by a close ancestor of the 50's/60's owl on a branch. This time the owl sat on something that looked suspiciously like barbed wire, but which I take to be a symmetrical branch, under a blue rose (Blue??) all of which is under "Hillsborough". The owl is flanked by the clubs initials. The striped appearance was camouflage so that it could not be seen on the shirt? (you'd think they would want it to stand out.)
In 95/96, the same badge as above, but with a totally white background, appeared on the orange away shirt. By 96/97 Wednesday had returned to proper blue and white stripes, and so the white badge was put on the blue stripe of the shirt. And very good it looked too.
At the same time as the minimalist owl was being usurped from its rightful place on the players left tit, it was making an appearance on a circular design which was used for a year or two on Wednesday products and in the programme, but which then disappeared. The design consisted of three concentric circles.
The outer circle :- Sheffield Wednesday Football Club PLC
The middle circle :- Consilio et Animis Est. 1867
The inner circle :- minimalist owl.
The latest club crest came about in 1999-2000. This saw the return of minimalist owl and the clubs initials writ large.
After a couple of years the Owl had a make-over becoming a portly, top hat and spats, cigar smoking gent, while United's razor had developed into a cigarette smoking, flat capped blade.
The first sign of an Owl badge connected to Wednesday came in the form of the supporters club badge, which represented an owl in front of a football. This remained the badge of the supporters club until at least the late 1960's.
Up until the 1930's, the programmes had been almost entirely text based, but by 1935 Wednesday had introduced their first banner headline. This included an incorrect establishment date for the club of 1866, a picture of the ground looking over the corner of the South Stand and East Bank, and the dates of Wednesday's honours (which sadly would be barely different form a similar list in today's programmes.)
By 1950/51 Wednesday had developed a crest consisting of the club initials over the city crest (sheaves of corn and crossed arrows).
In 1956/57 Wednesday introduced a club badge which included the motto, "consilio et animis". The owl is sitting on a branch over the white rose (for Yorkshire) with crossed arrows in the upper corners.
For the centenary year (they had sorted out the correct year of Wednesday's foundation by then) Wednesday decided to introduce a new mascot (Wednesday did have a monkey for a mascot briefly when someone gave McConnell,a relatively new signing from Sunderland in 1908, a monkey called "Jacko").For better or for worse, Ozzie now attends home matches with a number of his relatives.
Looking like an outcast from the children's TV programme "The Herbs", this short, fat-arsed, big eyed monstrosity was thankfully short lived - appearing in 1971 and disappearing shortly thereafter.
The line art, minimalist owl came into being just as Wednesday were going through the worst patch in their history (and difficult though it is to believe, they were much worse than today's overpaid, underachieving bunch.) A competition was held to design a new badge. The winner was a student at the University. The badge came into use around the 1971/2 season.
The badge remained unchanged through the 70's, 80's and early 90's until the 95/96 and the introduction of the faux-Birmingham shirt. The minimalist owl briefly disappeared, to be replaced by a close ancestor of the 50's/60's owl on a branch. This time the owl sat on something that looked suspiciously like barbed wire, but which I take to be a symmetrical branch, under a blue rose (Blue??) all of which is under "Hillsborough". The owl is flanked by the clubs initials. The striped appearance was camouflage so that it could not be seen on the shirt? (you'd think they would want it to stand out.)
In 95/96, the same badge as above, but with a totally white background, appeared on the orange away shirt. By 96/97 Wednesday had returned to proper blue and white stripes, and so the white badge was put on the blue stripe of the shirt. And very good it looked too.
At the same time as the minimalist owl was being usurped from its rightful place on the players left tit, it was making an appearance on a circular design which was used for a year or two on Wednesday products and in the programme, but which then disappeared. The design consisted of three concentric circles.
The outer circle :- Sheffield Wednesday Football Club PLC
The middle circle :- Consilio et Animis Est. 1867
The inner circle :- minimalist owl.
The latest club crest came about in 1999-2000. This saw the return of minimalist owl and the clubs initials writ large.
Saturday, 2 June 2007
Abandoned Games
April 6th 1895
Wednesday played Stoke at Olive Grove with a Mr Lewis as referee. Mr Lewis had given a less than astounding performance a couple of weeks previously v. Sunderland, and the crowd were not impressed. In the second half the referee was subject to increasing verbal abuse, and after 75 minutes he could not take any more and he stopped play. As he left the pitch a spectator threw a grassy sod at him - after which Mr Lewis abandoned the game (at 0-0).
The game was played a week later with Wednesday winning 4-2.
1899
Cup game v. United at Bramall Lane was abandoned early int he second half due to snow.
1916
After 85 minutes of their wartime match,Tom Brelsford and Torrence of Bradford City come to blows (because Torrence is sent off but refuses to go).
3 spectators(two of whom are sailors) jump the fence and join in.
There follows a general pitch invasion which causes the referee to abandon the match.
The FA allow the match result to stand
1949
Game at Coventry abandoned after 63 minutes due to fog.
1967
Arsenal match at Highbury abandoned after 47 minutes due to snow.
1972
The only peace-time match at Hillsborough (v. Bristol City) to be abandoned, is cut short by snow.
1975
Match at Walsall is abandoned with the pitch waterlogged.
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