{"id":313959,"date":"2025-08-03T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313959\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:35:39","slug":"sunday-league-team-sheffield-wednesday-slammed-over-absolutely-farcical-leicester-city-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/313959\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sunday league team&#8221; &#8211; Sheffield Wednesday slammed over &#8220;absolutely farcical&#8221; Leicester City situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This article is part of Football League World&#8217;s &#8216;Terrace Talk&#8217; series, which provides personal opinions from our FLW Fan Pundits regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Things are going from bad to worse at <a href=\"https:\/\/footballleagueworld.co.uk\/tag\/sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n<p>It was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportGids1\/status\/1950554983969046854\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> that some players won\u2019t be getting paid on schedule for the fourth time in five months, which led to a friendly against Burnley being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/sheffield-wednesday\/sheffield-wednesday-friendly-cancelled-burnley-5251785\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">cancelled<\/a> in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the club\u2019s ongoing financial concerns, pre-match accommodation isn\u2019t being provided for Henrik Pedersen\u2019s side for their season opener against Leicester City.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s players are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.co.uk\/sport\/football\/sheffield-wednesday\/sheffield-wednesday-hotel-leicester-city-5251179\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> considering paying for their own hotel rooms ahead of the clash, instead of completing the 70-mile journey on the day of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Football League World\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/footballleagueworld.co.uk\/tag\/sheffield-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheffield Wednesday<\/a> fan pundit, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/briscoe_inferno\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick McKenna<\/a>, believes that the club should be embarrassed of such a situation arising but isn\u2019t overly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>                        Sheffield Wednesday slammed for accommodation stance ahead of Leicester City clash<\/p>\n<p>                    <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dejphon Chansiri\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/copy-of-1920x1080-3-23.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/copy-of-1920x1080-3-23.jpg\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just absolutely farcical,\u201d commented Patrick. \u201cIt&#8217;s not a story that should ever be written about a professional club at any level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s as if we&#8217;re talking about a Sunday league team here. It&#8217;s just inconceivable that such a basic expense isn&#8217;t being covered and then the bare-faced cheek of asking the players themselves to cover it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the same players who have not been paid four out of five months on time, and yet they are being asked to cover the financial shortfalls of our moronic owner.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotmob.com\/en-GB\/teams\/10163\/overview\/sheffield-wednesday\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sheffield Wednesday&#8217;s league finishes under Dejphon Chansiri<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Season<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Division<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Position<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2014-15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>13th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2015-16<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>6th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2016-17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>4th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2017-18<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>15th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2018-19<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>12th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2019-20<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>16th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2020-21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>24th (relegated)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2021-22<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>League One<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>4th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2022-23<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>League One<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>3rd (promoted)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2023-24<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>20th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>2024-25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Championship<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>12th<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s really nothing else you can say about this. It&#8217;s embarrassing, it&#8217;s farcical and it&#8217;s as if we&#8217;re talking about the dog and duck league. I&#8217;m not surprised that it has got to this, but my word, it&#8217;s not something we should be talking about before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe focus should be on normal things, about new signings, hopes for the season, how you think the match will go, but yet here we are, and I fear that more and more daft stories are going to be coming out in the next few days to match this or even to top the farcical nature of this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                        Sheffield Wednesday supporters will be fearing their Leicester City trip<\/p>\n<p>                    <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sheffield Wednesday fans - Wembley Stadium\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/copy-of-flw-169-image-56.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/copy-of-flw-169-image-56.png\" style=\"display:block;height:auto;max-width:100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As Patrick mentioned, such has been the extent of controversies at Hillsborough this summer, football has taken a massive step back.<\/p>\n<p>However, on August 10, the Owls will need to try and quell Marti Cifuentes\u2019 Leicester City side.<\/p>\n<p>The Foxes will likely be determined to start strongly in their bid for promotion back to the top-flight, which could lead to uncomfortable viewing for Wednesday\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n<p>With such an unsatisfactory preparation for the season and no accommodation plans, Leicester could kill any optimism left within the Owls\u2019 camp with a dominant performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article is part of Football League World&#8217;s &#8216;Terrace Talk&#8217; series, which provides personal opinions from our FLW&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-313959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114963685570108615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}