It’s a year to the day since Sheffield Wednesday were promoted at Wembley in dramatic fashion, 11 days on from the most dramatic of dramatic semi-finals. A few weeks earlier had seen a dramatic fall from the automatic promotion places, before that a dramatic 23-match unbeaten run that broke all records. Such was the groundswell of drama, our Wednesday writers Alex Miller and Joe Crann released a book last year to chronicle the nooks and crannies of a campaign few will forget.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. On the first anniversary of Windass’ Wembley winner, here’s an excerpt of the book - the Preface to all that followed. The ball beats the Barnsley goalkeeper to a sound that only seems to reverberate that way at the home of football.
Sheridan, Waddle; to those in the stands, only Sheffield Wednesday legends of old have sparked its unmistakable timbre. It’s a delicate crash of ball on net, a momentary flicker as it peels down the goal, a half-second of breathlessness and then pandemonium from the terraces, the individual sound of fathers hugging daughters, brothers embracing sisters and grandparents lifting their grandchildren to create the crash of a sea of 44,000 sunburnt revellers. Wednesday’s players race off in directions unknown.
Blood runs cold and adrenaline runs am.