{"id":353278,"date":"2025-08-18T04:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353278\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:07:46","slug":"sheffield-wednesday-fans-stage-mock-funeral-before-return-to-hillsborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353278\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday fans stage mock funeral before return to Hillsborough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheffield Wednesday fans carried a mock coffin through Hillsborough Park in protest against owner Dejphon Chansiri.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Owls<\/a> have faced another rocky period off the pitch amid unpaid wages and registration embargoes.<\/p>\n

\"Wednesday<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wednesday face a long and arduous seasonCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

Wednesday players refused to play<\/a> in a pre-season friendly against Burnley but faced Leicester City in their Championship<\/a> opener.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the crisis-hit club returned to Hillsborough for the first home match of the campaign against Stoke City.<\/p>\n

Ahead of kick-off, Wednesday fans walked through Hillsborough Park, which is just a short walk from their home stadium.<\/p>\n

A fake coffin was carried on some of their shoulders ahead of flags that explained the problems they have faced under the ownership.<\/p>\n

‘Extortionate Prices, Record Account Losses, Hillsborough Sold’, read one of them.<\/p>\n

The mass of Wednesday fans also chanted ‘Get out of our club, get out of our club, Dejphon Chansiri, get out of our club!’<\/p>\n

Once inside the stadium, the supporters saw their side go 1-0 down after just one minute when Million Manhoef netted for Stoke.<\/p>\n

This weekend’s fixture comes three days after they knocked Bolton Wanderers out of the Carabao Cup with a penalty shootout win.<\/p>\n

It has earned them a second round clash against their Yorkshire rivals Leeds United.<\/p>\n

Victory has offered the club a glimmer of hope for the future, one that remains uncertain as their ownership protests continue.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

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A mock funeral from fans signified the death of their clubCredit: @AlexMiller91 X\"Hundreds<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hundreds turned out for the protest before kick-offCredit: @AlexMiller91 XWhat has happened at Wednesday<\/strong> this year?<\/p>\n

Wednesday announced in March that the players had not been paid as a result of cashflow issues.<\/p>\n

Payments for May, June and July were also delayed, and the club were then placed under a second registration embargo in seven months.<\/p>\n

The club and Chansiri were charged by the English Football League.<\/p>\n

Wednesday were also given spending restrictions for the subsequent three transfer windows.<\/p>\n

Manager Danny Rohl left the club<\/a> on July 29 just days before their 2-1 loss away to Leicester on the opening weekend of the season.<\/p>\n

Sheffield City Council then closed the North Stand at Hillsborough because of their concerns over its safety.<\/p>\n

\"Chansiri<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chansiri has been continuously told to sell the clubCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

However, it was reopened ahead of the visit of Stoke.<\/p>\n

Wednesday fans who travelled to the Leicester clash staged protests<\/a> at the King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n

This included them not taking their seats in the away end for the first five minutes of the match, with Leicester fans applauding them in.<\/p>\n

Wednesday were then able to settle some of their debts with 50 per cent of their solidarity payment from the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheffield Wednesday fans carried a mock coffin through Hillsborough Park in protest against owner Dejphon Chansiri. The Owls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,124719,64536,393,23518,4884,13734,108431,1620,21069,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-353278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-coffin","10":"tag-dejphon-chansiri","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-funeral","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-hillsborough","15":"tag-hillsborough-park","16":"tag-sheffield","17":"tag-sheffield-wednesday","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115047806472823707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353278","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=353278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}