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There were no grand proclamations or sweeping promises as Challinor faced the media for the first time as the Owls’ new manager. Instead, both men were measured, buisnesslike and focused on the task in hand.

As the first managerial appointment of the Arise era, the significance of Challinor’s arrival was obvious. Yet the message from both the sporting director and manager was clear: this was less about fanfare and more about getting to work.

Challinor had been out of management since leaving Stockport County in June following defeat to Bolton Wanderers in the League One play-off final. During that time, he had been selective about his next move.

The Chester-born had aspirations of stepping into the Championship. It is easy to see why given his outstanding track record. He is a serial promotion winner.

Blackburn Rovers were among the clubs known to admire his body of work while other opportunities came and went before he made his decision to return to football.

His switch to Hillsborough also brings a reunion with Wilson, with the pair having enjoyed considerable success at Edgeley Park.

“Working with Simon again is brilliant,” said Challinor. “We know how each other works. We know what good looks like. He’s brilliant in terms of strategy and processes that will allow a plan to go in the direction that you all want it to.

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Davis Keillor-Dunn got the ball rolling for the Owls in what proved to be Matt Hamshaw’s final game as interim manager, but a late strike from former Wednesday striker, Jerry Yates, made sure that the spoils were shared.

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Dave Challinor was watching on with a notebook as he looks ahead to his first game in the dugout as the new manager of the club, and he’ll have been pleased with some of the things that he saw in his trip to Hillsborough.

Things changed after Sil Swinkels’ red card of course, with that moment coming at a time when the hosts were in the ascendancy, but Hamshaw’s men battled it out with 10 men and were very close to sealing all three points.

As always, we’re here to look at some of the numbers behind the result, and you can do an even deeper dive by checking out TWW Stats yourself.

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A new chapter begins today at Sheffield Wednesday following the appointment of Dave Challinor as their new manager.

Challinor watched on from the directors’ box as the Owls secured a hard-fought draw at home to Blackpool yesterday.

It is Challinor’s first managerial role since leaving Stockport County last summer. The 51-year-old guided the Hatters from the National League and to the League Two title within three seasons - and twice took them to the League One play-offs.

The Wednesday Word caught up with journalist Sam Byrne, who covered and reported on Challinor’s time at Edgeley Park for the Manchester Evening News, to get the inside track on Wednesday’s new boss.

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SB: He was very flexible in his five years in charge at Stockport. He likes a certain shape and to play with a back three. He likes his wing-backs to get up and down and do both sides of the job.

He’s a winner and is prepared to grind out results. We all know he has an excellent record in terms of promotions and finishing in the play-offs, but even just game to game, he’s a winner and will look to grind out results.

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For now, it is business as usual. As the club continues its search for a new manager, Hamshaw is preparing to lead the Owls into battle on Sunday.

Make no mistake, Wednesday are fortunate to have someone like Hamshaw at the club. His willingness to step into the breach evokes memories of Lee Bullen and Neil Thompson, who repeatedly answered the call as caretakers during the previous regime. Good football people who put the club first and do whatever is required in its hour of need.

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The feel-good factor that surrounded Hillsborough earlier in the season has inevitably faded. Wednesday have slipped to ninth in the table after winning just one of their past seven league matches. Two woeful performances and results at Notts County and Doncaster Rovers ultimately cost Henrik Pedersen his job.

Yet Hamshaw has been a calming and reassuring presence since Pedersen’s exit. Highly regarded within the game and universally well-liked, he has impressively navigated a difficult situation to keep the show on the road. He is a bright, bubbly personality and instantly got a reaction from the players in their midweek draw with Cambridge United.

This is far from Hamshaw’s first rodeo. He knows what League One inside out, both as a coach and a manager, having enjoyed significant success at Rotherham United before taking charge of the Millers in difficult circumstances last season.

“I’ve been fortunate to have success in League One with a previous manager (Paul Warne),” he said. “We had four promotions out of this league.

“I managed in it last year so I’d like to think that there’s not a lot I kind of don’t know about this league. It’s important that I bring that. Look, I’m nowhere near perfect. I don’t see everything sometimes right so that’s where you need your staff.

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It was a much-improved performance from the Owls on Tuesday evening, but they weren’t able to claim all three points as Sullay Kaikai cancelled out Mason Burstow’s excellent opening strike.

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The result left Matt Hamshaw’s side in ninth place after 12 games played, and four points off the automatic promotion places ahead of their clash with Blackpool on Sunday.

While the result wasn’t the best, there were some solid performances out there in Wednesday colours - with one player in particular picking up some big numbers.

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The top of the dashboard gives a nice wrap-up of some of the key stats, but also gives you the results, fixtures and a summary of the most recent game.

The more you explore, the more you’ll find. We’ve got player ratings on there courtesy of Sportsmonks, and you can find all sorts of information on each different individual currently playing for Henrik Pedersen’s side. In League One so far, Louie Barry is the highest-rated player, if you were wondering.

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‘Benny’ smiles as he adjusts his camera. The number eight has been my lucky number since I was about six years old, and the man now looking out from my laptop screen is the reason why. When he first took to the field in blue and white I remember being mesmerised by him, everything about him just seemed exciting.

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The Italian was a moments man, scoring some incredible goals during his spell at Hillsborough, and he broke a lot of hearts in 1999 when he refused to play against Southampton – a decision that marked the beginning of the end of his time in the Steel City.

Decades later he sees the error of his ways, and admits that if he knew then what he knows now – after spending time as a manager himself – he’d have acted differently. He’s also gone on to apologise to Danny Wilson himself.

“Leaving was very difficult because I didn’t leave in the right way,” he told The Wednesday Word. “The manager at the time was Danny Wilson. I saw him again many years later, when I came back to Sheffield about five or six years ago, and apologised. I told him that at the time I hadn’t understood what I was doing, but now, as a coach, I understood and accepted that I’d made a big mistake.

“If the manager decides not to put you in the starting line-up, you have to accept it, wait for your chance and show what you can do when you get on the pitch. But I acted on instinct that day.

“The day before the game I went to Danny to ask permission to go to Italy after the match. He agreed. He also told me that the game was very important, and that I would play and make a difference.

“We travelled by bus, arrived at the hotel, slept and then got up and went to the stadium. It was around half past one, with kick-off at three. When he announced the team, I wasn’t in the starting line-up, even though he’d told me the day before that I would play. He didn’t explain why he’d changed his mind.

“But even if a manager changes his mind two hours before a game, the players have to respect his decision. When I apologised, he told me that I understood now because I was a coach, but that I hadn’t understood it at the time… He was right.

“And for that, for what I did, I broke something in the dressing room. I broke my relationship with the dressing room. The club decided to leave me out of the team for a week or two and fined me - which was correct. After two or three weeks, my agent called to say there was a good opportunity to go to Birmingham with a strong offer at Aston Villa, and we decided to take it. I understand why the club wasn’t happy with what happened.”

But while that episode is a sad one for Carbone, it doesn’t tarnish his memories of a club that he says he still loves. He was one of the first Italians to play in the Premier League, and fans well outside of the Owlsphere remember some of the things that he did in blue and white.

For the man himself, he’ll always look back at his time fondly.

“It was the first time I stayed with one team for three years,” he said with a smile. “I signed a four-year contract and stayed in Sheffield for three years - so I spent a long time at the club and with the fans. It was a good time, although sometimes things were better than others. The most important thing is what I hope I gave to Sheffield. I gave my best and everything I could, and the fans and club gave me a lot in return.

“They gave me the chance to have this new experience, learn the language and experience a different culture. It helped me improve as a person and as a player, day after day. When I talk about Sheffield, I talk about emotions, because it was a great time for me. I remember all my teammates fondly. They were great partners.

“We stayed in the Premier League for those three years. It was an amazing time in Sheffield, and I’ll never forget it. Whenever I’ve returned to England, people have recognised me and shown me a lot of love.”

‘Will they be able to handle the physicality and intensity of the English game’ is always a question asked of foreign players venturing into football on these shores. But for Carbone, he doesn’t recall any sort of bedding in period after leaving Inter Milan. Given the quality of the Serie A in the 1990s, you could say that that’s not surprising.

“I don’t remember finding it difficult,” he explained to TWW. “To be honest, playing in the Premier League in England was easier for me. Italian football was more tactical and more focused on man-to-man marking. We’re talking about football from 25 or 30 years ago, so it was different from the game today.

“The Premier League is even better now. Managers and coaches have brought in new methods, ideas and philosophies. Teams throughout the Premier League, Championship, League One and League Two all try to play football. At that time, I found it easier because when I played between the lines, nobody came to mark or press me. I had the freedom to turn, face the defender and take him on. So I didn’t have much difficulty playing in the Premier League.

“When I arrived, David Hirst was still there. He was a legend and a great player to play alongside. It was amazing to play with those players because they helped me show everyone my quality… Des Walker was another good player. He’d played in Italy and spoke Italian, so he helped me whenever I didn’t understand something. That was a great help. There were many other players, too. I remember that we fought in every game to get a result and save the season. It was a great time.”

When he arrived as a record £3m signing at the age of 25, Carbone was surrounded by Brits at Hillsborough. Regi Blinker and Orlando Trustfull were the only ones from outside the United Kingdom, but he still chipped in with a few goals - most notably against Manchester United and Nottingham Forest.

And then along came Paolo Di Canio.

“It was wonderful,” Carbone recalls, thrilled at the mention of his former teammate. “I remember David Pleat coming to speak to me in the gym. He asked me what I thought about Paolo Di Canio... I told him Paolo was one of the best players in Italy and an amazing player. At the time, he was playing for Celtic in Scotland.

“I asked David why he was asking, and he said we might have a chance to sign him. I was delighted. A week or two later, Paolo arrived, and everything changed. A player of such high quality had joined Sheffield Wednesday.”

Between them they scored 23 goals in the 1997/98 campaign, despite the Owls only narrowly missing out on relegation, and it’s pretty safe to say that without them they’d probably have gone down. The duo were thick as thieves, and could often be seen arriving at training together in Carbone’s Porsche.

They formed an excellent combination in attack, and were the sort of players capable of getting bums off seats at S6. You never knew what they were going to produce, and Carbone says they were ‘almost perfect’ together.

“Whether he was Italian, French or Spanish, Paolo was a very important player for us. For me, it was even better because we spoke the same language, both on and off the pitch. Our partnership was almost perfect. We understood each other; when Paolo wanted the ball, when I wanted it, and the right moment to pass. Our quality as a team improved a lot.

“Hillsborough was an amazing stadium, too. I don’t remember the exact capacity, but the atmosphere was fantastic at every game, especially against big teams like Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester United. The fans went crazy watching the game. Every time the ball moved, they reacted with incredible passion.”

For this writer, one goal in particular sticks out when I think of Carbone. It was Newcastle United away, and I was up in the Gods at St. James Park. Wednesday were tangoed up in orange, and lost 2-1 thanks to a Faustino Asprilla brace – but the little Italian’s overhead kick remains a core memory for that seven-year-old in the stands.

“I remember it like it was yesterday,” he says of that strike. “I think it was Paolo’s first game on the bench. He’d arrived the week before. After the game, Paolo told me it was a fantastic goal. The match was important for us, although we lost.

“The goal was incredible. When I watch it now, I’m surprised by it, because when you’re playing, you don’t think about it in the same way. Now I’m a coach, if I saw one of my players score a goal like that would be incredible. It was a very good goal.

“I think it was my favourite for Wednesday. It was beautiful. I remember many goals, and every moment was important. It wasn’t easy for us to win games, and even drawing gave us another point towards our objective. We needed around 35 or 36 points to stay up, so our aim was to take each game as it came and win as many as possible. When you scored and helped the team win, every goal was a fantastic and important moment - not just for me, but for every player.”

But while things often looked good on the pitch, it could be tough off it. Carbone – who gave up over £3m during a tough time for Bradford City – insists that it was never about the money, but he knows what some teammates thought about the high-earning foreign players in the group.

“I’ll be honest; it wasn’t always easy,” he recalled. “The two forwards were important players and earned high salaries, and sometimes some people were jealous or didn’t understand the differences between players. Occasionally, we had problems in the dressing room, but we usually sorted them out quickly.

“We tried to explain that we hadn’t come to Sheffield for the money, but for the passion. I certainly didn’t stay for three years just for the salary. I didn’t move to Sheffield, Aston Villa or Bradford for the money. At one point in my career, I left a very large amount of money behind at Bradford. Sometimes you don’t think about money; you think about what is best for you and how to make your family happy, too.

“In Sheffield, I always tried to give 100 per cent on the pitch - for myself, my family, the club and the fans. Benny Carbone, Paolo Di Canio, David Hirst and Des Walker, we all leave a club one day and other players may come in - but the club, the fans and its name remain forever.”

Last week marked 30 years since Carbone joined Wednesday, with a bowl of sauceless pasta and Pavarotti in attendance, and now he’s looking to make his way back to British shores once again. This time in the dugout.

After a spell working in Inter’s youth setup, the 55-year-old has made it clear where he wants to be next.

“I’ve been trying to find a coaching job in England for three or four years,” he says as we wrap up our chat. “For the last three years, I worked with Inter’s youth teams. It was an amazing experience. We did a great job working with young players, helping them develop and trying to get them into the first team. In the last two months, several players from my team have made it into the first team.

“When I finished working for Inter, my first choice was to find a team in England - that’s the priority. It’s a dream of mine, it’s what I’ve felt for a long time. When I was in Leeds with Massimo Cellino and I coached the U23s for a few months, I understood that that was where I wanted to be…

“Right now, and over the last 10 years, there’s no better place to be in football - the best players and the best coaches are there… The time I spent in England gave me the chance to become a better player and a better person. When I left I was better - so when people ask me about England, I always say that it’s an experience that people should do for at least one day in your life.”

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Wednesday weren’t at the races for so much of their clash with the Terriers on Saturday, and their unbeaten run looked to be coming to an end after they went 2-0 down early in the second half.

Henrik Pedersen’s men rallied, however, and after some late drama in West Yorkshire they managed to fight their way back to 2-2 and send their supporters home with a smile on their faces - and a sense of relief.

Unsurprisingly, WhoScored.com’s top-rated players on the day were all in a Huddersfield kit, but there were a couple of notable mentions from an Owls perspective.

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Like so many of his young teammates at Hillsborough, Emery was thrust into a difficult environment amidst protests and administration takeover talk. In a normal season he’d have spent his time playing for the U21s, but in the Owls’ 2025/26 season of turmoil he was called upon to help the cause.

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“It’s difficult to get your head around, really,” he said, speaking to The Wednesday Word. “You still can’t quite believe it when you’re playing a Championship game, or when you’ve played a couple of games for the senior side. But it was all a great experience - it was amazing to be out there, to have the opportunity and to play as many games as I did. I’m just very grateful.”

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Weaver played 71 times for the Owls over two spells - one loan and one permanent - but had to leave to come back as he departed the club’s ranks as a teenager after a lengthy spell out due to injury.

That doesn’t mean he doesn’t have some great memories from his younger days at Middlewood Road, though…

Speaking to The Wednesday Word about his original period at Hillsborough, the childhood Wednesdayite recalled a moment involving one of English football’s greats, Trevor Francis, during his time over at S6.

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Craig Thompson is probably best known for his role in Coronation Street, or as the moustached protagonist in Murdoch Mysteries. But the actor, who took his stage name from the long-serving Owl from the 1960s and 1970s, is also a vehement Wednesdayite.

Over his time travelling home and away with the Owls he’s seen plenty of good and plenty of bad from the lads in blue and white, but one of the most memorable Wednesday moments came whilst he was on a film set in Canada. And his experience of the Miracle of Hillsborough has now been set to stage.

“You kind of set the ball rolling when you took my article off Owlstalk and published it in the Sheffield Star,” he told me, speaking a couple of days before tickets go on sale. “It’s actually the only thing I’ve ever written! But yeah, I was chatting to a friend of mine last year, Jonathan Maitland, who’s a playwright. We were just talking about writing one-man shows or things for Edinburgh, and he asked me if I’d ever written anything. I said, ‘No, apart from an article about football’.

“He said, ‘Send it to me and I’ll read it!’ So I sent it to him, and it was his idea to turn it into a play, not mine. My article was the genesis of the thing, but it was Jonathan who decided it would make a good play. He originally thought it’d make a good one-man show for Edinburgh, about 45 minutes. Then he thought of expanding it to three men because it takes place in my trailer at work with two Canadian guys. So he thought he’d call it Three Men in a Trailer.

“Then he decided to interview me all about my backstory, my parents and my family. He’s expanded it to seven actors now, and it’s about 80 minutes without an interval… It’s segued into my family, and it’s about dads and sons and family connections that keep you bonded together through a certain football club. So it is very Wednesday-centric, but I’m sure fans of other clubs would get the whole thing, and that it would resonate with them.”

It’s called ‘The Miracle of Sheffield: Mum, Dad, Football & Me’, and the world premiere will be at the Library Theatre in the Steel City on March 25th, running through until April 23rd.

Craig will be playing two of the parts, both himself in 2023 as well as his dad in the ‘80s, and they’re hoping that they’ll be some good crowds in the 250-seater – with fans of all teams set for a good time.

“The action splits from 2023 in Toronto to early-’80s Sheffield in a Working Men’s Club,” the lead went on to explain. “So it features my mum and dad, and me as a young boy… My cousin came to see the rehearsal read-through. He’s a Cambridge professor and he’s a mad Wednesday fan - he’s also 70 years old! He was a page boy at my mum and dad’s wedding.

“After the read-through, he was in tears. He thought he was just coming to see a play about Sheffield Wednesday, and he couldn’t believe it was about his family as well, you know what I mean? So he was in bits in the bar, but in a good way. It was emotional for him.

“We had a lot of people at the rehearsal read-through who were not Wednesday-connected or football-connected, and everybody enjoyed it. There were a lot of people there who got a lot out of it, I think, many who said you didn’t have to be a football fan to enjoy it. It’s a play that I would invite people to see if they don’t go to theatre, if you know what I mean?”

Craig’s never hid his love for Wednesday, crowbarring the Owls – sometimes literally – into his various roles over the years. Now, with a new dawn at Hillsborough and positivity about the place again, he’s looking forward to treading the boards back in his home town once again – especially with the beautiful game at the heart of it.

“It’s more than just football - we all know that. It’s more than 90 minutes. It’s about the social aspect and maintaining contact with people you don’t really see anymore.”

Tickets range from £18 to £25, and are available at www.miracleofsheffield.com from Wednesday morning.

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Wednesday’s 2025/26 campaign was a torrid one. In many ways it felt relentless and unrewarding. It wasn’t the sort of place that many young up-and-comers would fancy playing, especially if they’ve been enjoying the comforts of Manchester City’s top-of-the-range facilities.

But Heskey isn’t like some of the other young lads in academies like City’s. He’s got a steel about him, a combativeness and physicality that shows on the pitch, but also a mentality that could well set him apart from the others as he embarks on the early stages of a blossoming career.

It probably also helped that his old man, Emile, knows a thing or two about Wednesday, as well.

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David has come with his wife, Angie, to whom he’s been married for 54 years. They’re both lifelong Wednesdayites, and are delighted to see what’s happening to the club under the ownership of David Storch. The American has shown more respect to Owls legends in the last few months than Dejphon Chansiri did in 10 years.

“It’s been brilliant, really marvellous,” he tells The Wednesday Word. “I think it’s been a good thing for all of us, because at times before some of the older lads couldn’t afford to go to the matches – and they wouldn’t give them a ticket. We had a box, so could take some of them, but they’d feel uncomfortable, because they didn’t feel like they were wanted. They just didn’t bother with them.

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Nineteen months is an unforgiving length of time to be out of action and Bernard admits at one stage he genuinely feared his career was over. A serious knee injury, two surgeries and repeated setbacks left him struggling to do even the simplest things for himself. He shed more tears than he cares to admit.

“I’m not going to lie to you, it’s tough to keep dreaming at times,” he said. “I’ve been in some dark spots.”

But Bernard is a resilient person. His support network – family, friends, his girlfriend, his agent and the club’s physios - have kept him going through the tough times. Fans played their part too, sending him lovely messages of support on social media.

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The former Owls striker has tracked the young winger’s rise closely at Liverpool, watching him progress through the age groups and emerge as one of the standout talents in the academy.

Manchester-born Morrison broke into the Reds’ first team last season, making two senior appearances. But it was in Premier League 2 where he truly shone, scoring 15 goals and claiming seven assists for Liverpool’s Under-21s. His impressive end product earned him a nomination for the Premier League Two Player of the Year award. Liverpool have been delighted with Morrison’s development and moved to tie him down to a new four-year contact in May.

Mellor has long been admirer of the player. Speaking exclusively to The Wednesday Word, Mellor said: “He was too good for academy football. I watched him at Under-18s, U19s, U21s and he got to the stage where he was the best player in Premier League 2…

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The Owls were outshot and outpassed at Hillsborough on Saturday afternoon, however they managed to keep the Hatters at bay in their League One encounter, becoming only the second team in nine 2026/27 matches to stop them from scoring.

Unfortunately Henrik Pedersen’s men didn’t offer much of a threat at the other end, and never really looked like finding the back of the net on home soil.

One player was a true statistical standout, and the two highest-rated players on the day were actually both wearing blue and white. Here’s a deeper look…

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