Football Daily | Danny Röhl does one as Wednesday’s woes get ever deeper

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Back in the 1880s, when Sheffield Wednesday were known simply as The Wednesday, the staunchly amateur club had a little problem. Having just won the FA Cup for the first time in 1896, the club then forgot to apply for the following season’s competition, missing the deadline entirely, which meant that most of their cup-winning side were rather cheesed off, threatened to leave and start their own professional club, Sheffield Rovers, where players would be paid for their performances. The next few months for Wednesday were something of a shambles and in scenes that will be familiar to anyone that has played Sunday League, the club struggled to find enough players to put out a proper side, culminating in a 16-0 defeat to Bolton-based Halliwell FC in January 1887, a match in which Wednesday could only field 10 players. A few months later, an emergency meeting was held between players and president John Holmes, after which the club turned professional. The players were paid and The Wednesday were saved.I was intrigued by Lucy Bronze’s quote in yesterday’s Football Daily – ‘I’ve been through a lot of pain, but that’s what it takes to play for England.’ Does this mean that all us fans who have watched the England men’s team play in a tournament are therefore eligible to be capped?” – John Kyle.I was interested to hear that Morgan Gibbs-White’s contract extension ‘underlines the ambition of Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis, whose vision for European success and sustained Premier League progress continues to shape the club’s future’ (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition). Presumably this is a different Evangelos Marinakis from the one who gave up a controlling interest in Nottingham Forest?” – Guy Stephenson.I agree with Mick Beeby: no more drums in football grounds (yesterday’s Football Daily letters). Do something useful at tea-time, start a petition” – Arthur McAra.The best response to the infuriating drummer is contempt. Brentford fans’ immediate reaction to an opposition drummer is to chant: ‘We don’t need a drum. We don’t need a drum. We’re Brentford FC, we don’t need a drum’” – Russell Wallman.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

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