Joe Crann @joe-crann ?

We could have made it easier for ourselves, we could have guaranteed our safety with just a draw against Peterborough United, but no, in true Sheffield Wednesday fashion, our relegation battle will go down to the last day. Granted, it’s our first season back in the Championship, a relegation scrap was always going to be on the [...]

After nearly a year and a half of being absent, on December 22 nd I made my way through the Hillsborough turnstile with my dad and grandad in front, my South African girlfriend behind and my ticket in hand as I sought a reminder of what Sheffield Wednesday was about. Since leaving England I’ve been restricted [...]

On the 28 th of August Sheffield Wednesday were celebrating a 1-0 win over Fulham, and our 19 th game unbeaten since beating United in February. Another 19 games have passed since toppling Premier League opposition, and now our results make for slightly more worrying reading. Following that win over the Blades we went on a 19 [...]

Another week, another defeat for Sheffield Wednesday and even from South Africa I can hear the sharpening of steel as Wednesdayites prepare to drop the guillotine on Dave Jones. We have to look at our situation. We’ve lost five games on the trot, conceded 12 goals in those five alone, and only managed to find [...]

To Whom It May Concern, Of late Sheffield Wednesday players have been taking a bit of a beating on social sites such as Twitter, being criticised for their lack of talent, their hairstyle, the way that they breathe, and every other aspect of their lives that some people think deserves to be scrutinised. Look, we [...]

So this weekend Sheffield Wednesday take on the old nemesis, the filthy nearby neighbours, Leeds United, and excitingly it’s being televised in South Africa. Not only does this mean that I’ll get to watch my boys in blue and white live for the first time since the Blackpool in February, when we got a spanking, [...]

Well Wednesdayites, we’re now in the midst of a glorious one-game unbeaten run, having clawed back Burnley three times in our last game, and hopefully it’s the start of a resurgence of sorts. After a run of six straight defeats, in which we conceded 13 goals and scored only three, we’ve picked up a valuable [...]

Well, we’re now 10 games into the season and, in all competitions we’ve conceded 20 goals. Not ideal for a team that, last month, had fans dreaming of a second consecutive promotion. Now, just a matter of weeks later, we’re sat 21st in the league, out of the Credit Card Cup and without a league [...]

Another week gone and another defeat to deal with, however, having listened to the game, watched the highlights and spoken to my folks, who were both at the game, a certain chant sprung to mind. I remember one of my very first football games as a kid, it was Wednesday against Leeds and I went [...]

Today I’m tasked with writing a blog on Sheffield Wednesday on the same day that David Cameron stated in the House of Commons, “Today’s report is black and white. The Liverpool fans were not the cause of the (Hillsborough) disaster.” Cameron then went on to issue a “proper and profound apology on behalf of the [...]

Well, it’s been a pretty busy week or so at Sheffield Wednesday. We’ve seen a handful of incomings and outgoings, suffered a bump back down to earth at the hands of Crystal Palace, and celebrated our 145 th birthday. Now it’s back to business as usual please. First things first. Yes, it hurts. We’ve lost our [...]

On Tuesday night we saw Sheffield Wednesday’s latest signing, Rodri, burst onto the Hillsborough scene with a smart finish and some acrobatics to get Wednesdayites salivating about the future. We’re two games into our Championship season and, without being too ridiculous, we’re sat second in the league and have done ourselves proud so far. The [...]

It’s here. It’s finally here. After months of stressing over England buggering up and losing on penalties, Team GB buggering up and, well, losing on penalties. The football season has returned and my, have Wednesday wet the appetite… On Monday night The Owls took on Oldham Athletic in what was the first test for the [...]

We’re into the final month of madness. There are 20 days left of the current transfer window, three days until Sheffield Wednesday’s first competitive game against Oldham, and eight days before the blue and white hordes descend on Derby County’s Pride Park. Our final warm-up game saw a much changed Wednesday outfit finish in style [...]

So, as you well know our first competitive game is coming up soon when the Mighty Owls will travel to Boundary Park to take on Oldham Athletic in the newly-named Capital One Cup. I’m not going to go shouting my mouth off about how we have an outside chance of winning this tournament, I mean [...]

So, that time of the year has arrived. We’re already salivating at the prospect of the new Football League starting again, yet it’s still just out of our grasp and we have to get our fix from the inevitable list of friendly games that are played out in order for our boys to gain some [...]

It’s been properly hectic in South Africa at the minute, like England it’s transfer silly season and me and the rest of the Soccer-Laduma guys are trying our best to keep on top of every little happening that goes on in the country. Meanwhile, I’m also trying to keep one eye on the blue and [...]

Let’s get straight into this, I’ve spent the better part of the last year going to South African football games where the vuvuzela reigns supreme and the vocal chords of football fans are left chronically unused unless it’s to let a player know that he’s buggered up. Now, don’t get me wrong, I, unlike most [...]