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Sheff Wed have great fans. I remember the opening day of the 1990-91 season when they took 8k to Portman Road. Great atmosphere and what a team they had. Within nine months they'd won promotion and the League Cup. By 1993 they'd finished in the top three and reached the FA Cup and League Cup finals in the same season.
I spent the pre-match chatting with their fans back in August 1990. I met Phil Parkes outside the centre-spot at noon, what a man. Anyway the Wednesdayites were great and the team battered us that day from the 1st minute to the end.
Sheff Weds taking 3800 to a Tuesday night game away at Wigan on 20:20 - Sep 27 by The_Last_Baron
Sheff Wed have great fans. I remember the opening day of the 1990-91 season when they took 8k to Portman Road. Great atmosphere and what a team they had. Within nine months they'd won promotion and the League Cup. By 1993 they'd finished in the top three and reached the FA Cup and League Cup finals in the same season.
I spent the pre-match chatting with their fans back in August 1990. I met Phil Parkes outside the centre-spot at noon, what a man. Anyway the Wednesdayites were great and the team battered us that day from the 1st minute to the end.
They brought a lot that day - and spilled on to the pitch when they scored - but no way did they bring 8k
Sheffield to Wigan is a 70 mile drive, motorway all the way. Not exactly a tasking long distance drive is it to make for some football fans from a city of over half a million people.
Sheff Weds taking 3800 to a Tuesday night game away at Wigan on 09:32 - Sep 28 by Bluespeed225
The ones on the pitch were being walked round from the other end, they happened to score at the time!
There'd been a crush which looked dangerous until the stewards got the fences down and sat the fans behind the goal. Williams scored while they were there. They they moved them to the Portman terrace seats.
There were 8,000, some in the seats in Portman Stand also. And they were crammed into the two pens which led to the crush.
John Lyall's first game in charge and a we took a first class lesson from Big Ron's men. My biggest memory of the game is Nigel Worthington charging down the left wing at will for the whole of the first half. Should have been 6-0.
Sheff Weds taking 3800 to a Tuesday night game away at Wigan on 11:14 - Sep 28 by The_Last_Baron
There'd been a crush which looked dangerous until the stewards got the fences down and sat the fans behind the goal. Williams scored while they were there. They they moved them to the Portman terrace seats.
There were 8,000, some in the seats in Portman Stand also. And they were crammed into the two pens which led to the crush.
John Lyall's first game in charge and a we took a first class lesson from Big Ron's men. My biggest memory of the game is Nigel Worthington charging down the left wing at will for the whole of the first half. Should have been 6-0.
I don't want to p1ss on your chips, but I think you might have over-estimated the 8000. I remember David Rose, the club secretary at the time, mentioned in an article that each of the away end cages had capacity for 2000. I remember that game well, it was not long after Hillsborough and there was a feeling that the club/police were itching to try out the new safety procedures, including that god-awful ear-piercing screeching siren. Attendances generally were lower than today and I remember my Dad and I remarking that 4000 was a very impressive turnout (I think Wednesday had been relegated from Div 1 the season before?) It may have been more, but as Illy says, it was nothing like 8000.
I agree with everything you have said about that match, where Wednesday ripped us apart, and about the club and its supporters. One of the few from Yorkshire that are seemingly without an undeserved sense of entitlement or a disproportionate number of nasty b@stards. A bit like Newcastle.
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