Five months is a long time in football. At the end of May, Sheffield Wednesday were celebrating one of their greatest days when Josh Windass’s late, late header finally broke Barnsley in the League One play-off final at Wembley. It was the most dramatic end to the most awful slog of a game, and Windass just about mustered the energy to run to the corner and slide on the grass, to be enveloped by a sea of blue and white shirts.
Then, three weeks before the start of the Championship season, Wednesday were stunned when popular manager Darren Moore walked away citing irreconcilable differences with the outspoken owner, Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri, a man who doesn’t tend to reconcile differences. The summer’s optimism washed away. Moore’s replacement, Xisco Munoz, failed to win a single game in his first 12 and was sacked last month.
