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Just saw a headline neither will be relegated this year by points deduction"Wigan and Sheffield Wednesday are set to avoid relegation from the Championship as a result of their financial dealings with any points deductions imposed by the EFL's independent panel to be applied next season."
I’ve saw it Mail online
Sheffield Wednesday missed a massive opportunity in 1990. Hillsborough was (and still is) the very definition of the death-trap stadium s tat we had allowed to become the norm. The 1989 disaster happened there, but anyone who had attended capacity crowds at large stadiums (like us at Goodison, 4years before) knew with hindsight that it was going to happen somewhere, someday.But it happened at Hillsborough. Nowhere else.And once it had happened, that ground should have been closed down as a symbol of football facing up to its responsibilities.The timing would have been perfect. Sheffield had just won the World Student Games and the Council was putting millions into a new stadium in a much more amenable setting. Sheffield Wednesday could have ridden the start of a wave by shutting down the rotting hulk of Hillsborough and moving to a fell-funded, future-proof Don Valley Stadium. Instead they decided to stay in the past and invested in patching up the scene of an atrocity.They have spiralled down ever since. Karma, perhaps...
If Hull, Barnsley and Wednesday came down it would save the Rovers a fortune on travel expenses.
Unless Wednesday get hammered with a big points deduction.?
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on July 21, 2020, 01:23:15 amSheffield Wednesday missed a massive opportunity in 1990. Hillsborough was (and still is) the very definition of the death-trap stadium s tat we had allowed to become the norm. The 1989 disaster happened there, but anyone who had attended capacity crowds at large stadiums (like us at Goodison, 4years before) knew with hindsight that it was going to happen somewhere, someday.But it happened at Hillsborough. Nowhere else.And once it had happened, that ground should have been closed down as a symbol of football facing up to its responsibilities.The timing would have been perfect. Sheffield had just won the World Student Games and the Council was putting millions into a new stadium in a much more amenable setting. Sheffield Wednesday could have ridden the start of a wave by shutting down the rotting hulk of Hillsborough and moving to a fell-funded, future-proof Don Valley Stadium. Instead they decided to stay in the past and invested in patching up the scene of an atrocity.They have spiralled down ever since. Karma, perhaps...Some good points BST. Even more so when you consider the fuss we've had with SWFC this last season. When I say we I speak as the Chair of the SYP Independent Advisory Group who had a part to play this last season when a safety certificate was being withdrawn on the eve of the season starting. Despite our best efforts to create a safer environment for supporters at the Leppings Lane end the club argued, wriggled and fought until they persuaded a court that the prohibition notice was invalid. I have no respect for that position at all.https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/sheffield-wednesday-lodges-appeal-over-prohibition-notice-491036