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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Louise Taylor and Matt Hughes

Steel City derby symbolic scene for Sheffield Wednesday’s fall from grace

Liam Palmer and the Sheffield Wednesday manager Henrik Pedersen applaud fans after the final whistle against Millwall.
Henrik Pedersen’s Sheffield Wednesday scored their first goal in 11 matches against Millwall but still suffered a 10th consecutive defeat. Photograph: Simon Traylen/ProSports/Shutterstock

When crisis intrudes into everyday lives, personal worlds shrink and important events are reduced to near irrelevance. Sheffield Wednesday supporters understand that better than most. They have endured so much misery for so long that even Sunday’s potential relegation-sealing Steel City derby has lost some of its old significance.

“If you win it’ll be like kicking a cat,” Dan Fudge, host of the Wednesday Week podcast and YouTube channel says to Nick Wylie from the Sheffield United Way in this week’s broadcast. “We’ve got bigger things to worry about than bragging rights.”

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