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Dear Reader,

Welcome to Issue 5 of THE WEDNESDAY.

We have included again this week a Wednesdayite section with updated information for people. If any other groups or organisations would like either ad-hoc or regular sections please contact us at the email address below.

Many thanks to all the people who have emailed in their comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated as it helps us to create the newsletter you want to read.

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UTO Team

Wednesday crashed out of the Carling Cup in the First Round after League Two Wrexham ran riot at Hillsborough.

Wednesday had 13 players missing for the game and half of the 16 man squad were made up of academy players. Both sides started brightly and had chances before Wrexham took the lead on 33 minutes when Roberts scored from close range after a clear handball missed by referee Swarbrick.

Six minutes later it was two nil when Llewellyn beat Adamson after a mistake by Lee Bullen. The Owls rallied after half time but Wrexham killed the game off on the break when Done scored after a goalmouth scramble. Whelan pulled one back for Wednesday on 79 minutes before the Welsh side finished the game off on 84 minutes when the highly rated Jones scored from 20 yards after a neat move.

Its now 5 consecutive seasons since The Owls made it past the first two rounds in this competition.

Wrexham - Jones

Match #5

Result: Sheffield Wednesday 0 - 1 Leeds

The Owls are still looking for their first home win of the season after losing by a single goal to Yorkshire rivals Leeds.

Wednesday had the better of the first half with Deon Burton missing from six yards after Sam's cross had been deflected onto the post. Brunt and O'Brien also went close.

Leeds came out the stronger side after half time and were unlucky not to take the lead were it not for a brilliant last ditch tackle by Simek. On 70 minutes Leeds finally got the breakthrough when Healy scored from the spot after Jones brought down the Irish striker.

The Owls keeper was sent off. Wednesday pressed in the last 15 minutes and had 2 penalty claims turned down but Leeds held on.

Leeds - David Healy

The Wednesdayite AwayDay Coach

Now booking for the Southend game on Saturday 9 September.

The cost for a coach ticket is £20 for members, £15 for junior members and £25 for non-members.

Phone 0114 2812345 or email enquiries@wednesdayite.com

We are now also booking for the Hull City evening kick off match on Friday 15th September. The coach ticket prices are £8 for Wednesdayite members, £5 for junior members and £10 for non-members.

Community Working Group

This group meets regularly to discuss and co-ordinate Wednesdayite’s Community work with other members of the SWFC community. Its meetings are open to all members who wish to contribute.

The next meeting is on Wednesday 27th September at the Wednesdayite Lounge at the Lounge at the Park Hotel, Wadsley Lane – from 7pm to 9pm

Members’ Event

The first members’ event of the 2006/7 season will be held at the Wednesdayite Park Hotel, Wadlsey Lane, on Thursday 28th September. This is planned to be a Question And Answer session. More details will be announced soon.

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The Wednesdayite Lounge

The Wednesdayite Lounge is open for members and their guests before the Owls' home Saturday games from 12.00 midday and is open after the match until 6.30 pm. You can meet up with old friends and make new ones, have a drink, watch footy shows on tv.

The lounge is also usually open before the evening matches from 6pm.

If, for any reason the lounge is not available, it will be announced on the Wednesdayite website and also in the Wednesdayite Section of Up The Owls.

Wednesdayite members can always use their Wednesdayite Membership card to get in to the main part of the Park Hotel (downstairs) on match days when the "passes only" system is in operation.

The Wednesdayite Car Park

The Wednesdayite Car Park will be open for these games as usual - members £3 non-members £5.

Not a member?

Join Now - on the Wednesdayite web site. www.wednesdayite.com or write to Wednesdayite, PO Box 3928, Sheffield S6 9AY

Up The Owls Forum - Tell A Friend

The 'Up The Owls' prediction league has played 5 games and has 41 games left to play.

The current top five are:

For those who have not yet joined there is still time.

To play you simply predict the correct score of the game along with the first Owls scorer (if there is one hopefully!!!) to accumalate points and become champion.

How points are scored and a thread to join the prediction league can be found here.

There are currently 22 teams in the UTO Bobble Hats League.

We have now played Gameweek 3 and the current top five are:

To join click here

The League Code is 121911-24725

Everyone is welcome so sign up and see if you can cut it as a manager.

2004 - The Owls drew 1-1 with Oldham in their promotion season. Chris Brunt gave Wednesday the lead but Johnson replied for the Lactics in the last 10 minutes.

1997 - The Owls beat Leicester 2-0 in front of the Sky camera's to make it four wins out of four and top the Premiership table. Richie Humphrey's scored a wonder goal and Andy Booth got the other after half time.

1989 - The Owls drew 1-1 with Everton with Dalian Atkinson scoring a last minute equalizer, Wednesday's first goal of the season, after nearly 360 minutes of football.

Andy Blair signed for Wednesday on the 7th August 1984 for £60000 from Wolves. He joined the Owls as they were preparing to embark on their first campaign back in the top flight after 14 years in the wilderness.

Blair enjoyed a good first season with Wednesday as The Owls took the top flight by storm with victories at Old Trafford and Anfield. He also wrote himself into the record books by becoming the first, and so far only, Owls player to score a hat trick of penalties. The feat was acheived in a League Cup 4th Round game against Luton Town at Hillsborough in November 1984 as Wednesday won 4-2.

His second season wasn't his best as he got injured in the opening game of the campaign. He returned after several weeks out to become a regular until a fateful FA Cup tie against Derby in February 1986 when he was substituted at half time after his error led to a goal.

Three weeks later he was transferred to Aston Villa after a fallout with manager Howard Wilkinson. His spell at Villa though was ruined by injury. At one point he spent 14 months on the sidelines and he subsequentlly had spells at Barnsley, Northampton and finally Kidderminster before retiring in 1990 due to injury. In the same year he opened a childrens playschool with his wife before owning his own sports shop in the Midlands.

He can now be found turning out for Aston Villa 'old boys' on rare occasions whilst still running his businesses.

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