Hopefully at least a few people might have noticed that all has gone quiet recently in War of the Monster Trucks world. Everyone will appreciate that the biggest contributor to this was Covid. The pandemic of course meant many months of games behind closed doors and even when we were allowed back into games, the idea of selling fanzines on a person-to-person basis didn’t feel like the best thing to be doing until things got a bit calmer infection-wise. However...

As I write I have the refrains of two very different songs going through my head. First there is Frank Sinatra and High Hopes – the optimistic Ant and Ram with their respective rubber plant and dam wall. Second, there is Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who. The title speaks for itself.

The high hopes are all founded on the major and much needed clear out of players this summer. Darren Moore appears to have been given free rein to...

As a nine year old emerging football supporter born and bought up in Essex in a non-footballing family I started supporting the strangely named Sheffield Wednesday during the 1960 – 61 season. Apart from its name,  and a full colour squad picture in the Reynolds News, what attracted me to the club was its impressive form – the Owls eventually finishing second in the First Division. I had no idea of geography, or I might have become a Tottenham supporter...

Whilst it was finally cruel to be relegated in the way we were on Saturday at Pride Park, over the season we got what we deserved. Yes, the players discovered the bottle to fight back and get a point from a losing position, but we gave stupid goals away, as we have done all season. If you lose to the two other teams in the bottom three you deserve to be relegated. If you throw away nearly 30 points from winning positions,...

Our historic club is in a mess. Arguably the biggest mess it has been in since its formation in 1867. The mid 1970’s years were very difficult, but right now feels worse. The apathy is pervasive. Whether we remain in the Championship or end up in League One, we can’t go on like this.

The current squad of mostly well-paid players have made too many half-hearted contributions to this state of affairs, particularly over the last 2 years. But the owner...

After the semi-final defeat against Huddersfield in May 2017 I sat with mates in the New Barrack Tavern as we cried into our beer. I had dark forebodings about what the future had in store for SWFC. It felt like that was the end of a short, positive era and we would move into an altogether more difficult time. On 17 March 2021 we again drew again 1-1 with Huddersfield after 90 minutes that, coupled with Birmingham’s 2-1 win, effectively ended...