Month: May 2022
Death of Ex-Owls midfielder O’Donnell, aged 72
Neil O’Donnell, former Wednesday midfielder of the seventies, has passed away at the age of 72. He played 47 games for us between 1975 and 1977, scoring two goals, having joined Wednesday from Gillingham and so linking up again with former Gills boss Len Ashurst who was in charge at Hillsborough at the time. O’Donnell, […]
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Hutchinson released by Wednesday
Sam Hutchinson has been released by Wednesday. The 32-year-old, who made more than 200 appearances for us in two spells at Hillsborough, has not been offered a new deal, along with Saido Berahino and Chey Dunkley. Wednesday have taken up an option to retain Marvin Johnson while new contract offers have been made to Jack […]
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‘Fans created an amazing atmosphere’
Darren Moore heaped praise on the Wednesday fans in the aftermath of our 2-1 aggregate defeat to Sunderland in the division one play-off semi-final. Speaking after the 1-1 draw in the second leg, at Hillsborough, Moore said: “I would like to thank every single one of our fans because their support has been unbelievable throughout […]
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Added time agony as Owls bow out of play-offs
Wednesday’s hopes of reaching the League One play-off final ended in added time of the semi-final second leg against Sunderland at Hillsborough. Patrick Roberts’ close-range strike after 93 minutes drew the game level at 1-1 and took the aggregate score to 2-1 to the Wearsiders to clinch their place in the Wembley final against Wycombe. […]
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Owls v Sunderland
Peacock-Farrell, Hunt, Storey, Dean, Hutchinson, Johnson, Byers, Luongo, Bannan, Windass, Gregory. Subs: Wildsmith, Palmer, Dunkley, Kamberi, Mendez-Laing, Berahino, Paterson.
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Sellout Hillsborough set for second leg showdown
Wednesday know they will face Wycombe Wanderers in the League One play-off final if we can overcome Sunderland in our semi-final second leg at a sellout Hillsborough tomorrow night. Wycombe ran out 2-1 aggregate winners over MK Dons this evening and we now need to overturn a 1-0 deficit from Friday’s first leg in Sunderland […]
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Moore’s rallying call to fans for second leg
Darren Moore has called on the Wednesday fans to be the 12th man for our play-off semi final second leg at a sellout Hillsborough on Monday evening. Speaking after our 1-0 first leg defeat at the Stadium of Light in front of more than 44,000 fans, Moore said: “Sunderland’s fans were loud tonight, really loud, […]
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Owls beaten … but all to play for in second leg
Wednesday’s promotion hopes are still alive after escaping with a 1-0 defeat in our play-off semi final first leg at Sunderland tonight. Trailing at half-time, we survived 15 minutes of extreme Sunderland pressure straight after the restart, before a late Wednesday rally saw us cause a scare or two at the other end. And, while […]
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Owls at Sunderland
Peacock-Farrell, Palmer, Storey, Dean, Hutchinson, Johnson, Byers, Luongo, Bannan, Berahino, Gregory. Subs: Wildsmith, Hunt, Dunkley, Dele-Bashiru, Mendez-Laing, Windass, Paterson.
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Join fellow London Owls to watch play-offs
If you’re not able to get to one – or both – of our League One play-off semi final ties against Sunderland then why not join fellow London Owls to watch the action. We will be meeting at Mabel’s Tavern to view both legs live on Sky, tonight and then on Monday. Mabel’s Tavern is […]
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