Sheffield's second football team come to Swansea on Saturday to try and stand in the way of a Swansea train that has more momentum than Amy Winehouse en route to the Priory.
It is always strange when a city has two football clubs. It's like when an elder sibling gets a younger one. At first it becomes a bit of a novelty – something to show your friends but as time goes on you want to get rid of them especially when you reach the later stages of your life and they hang around whilst you are trying to get your leg over. It is no wonder on that basis why fans of the Blades look with disdain at those that follow Wednesday. Although I always believed Thursday followed Wednesday so I guess its a reasonably popular name in Sheffield.
Of course you could be reading this and thinking that it is an obvious dig about them being the second club in Sheffield but if you think about it logically that with the city being known as the Steel City then you would assume that the Premier club would have first dabs on the steel references – hence the Blades and the blades on their badge. So they are either the first club or Wednesday are just plain stupid. I mean. A f****g owl? What the hell were they thinking? Stupid Northern monkeys, sorry I mean owls..!
On the subject of the steel city though, it was good to see that they took the title from Liverpool recently (think about it) with the cheeky scousers (Tranmere fans) having held the title for so long. Rumours that hub caps are now being nicked and melted down for steel sales are yet to be confirmed.
Of course Sheffield is the home of snooker with the world championship being held at the crucible every year to the watching audience of hundreds of people on the bbc (the bbc still have sport?) Snooker though is just one of those plain odd sports – right up there with fencing, badminton and watching Cardiff City.
As a small town in Rotherham though it is understanding that Sheffield constantly look to other cities with a slight tinge of envy. Britian's 4th largest city is not even classed as the capital of Yorkshire, they have a nearest airport called Robin Hood airport which for some reason is in Doncaster whilst the need to play in blue and white stripes fully backs up their tesco value ambition.
Their manager of course is a former friend of ours in Brian Laws, famed for throwing chicken legs at a Grimsby player when in charge there – although I'm not quite sure why Dennis Lawrence was in the dressing room at that time. He spent time at Scunthorpe a few years back although interestingly when he left they were known as Shorpe for a while (think about it again……) Laws is always assured of a warm welcome in Swansea thanks to previous antics so no doubt we will be singing his name to great success on Saturday afternoon. Laws, you're a winker…….
Finally of course you have to question the use of Wednesday in their name. Was it reference to their supporters being the great unwashed and that was the day they collected their dole or is it simply that they close down at lunchtime on Wednesdays? There must be a reason behind it and I'm sure some smart arsed Wednesday fan reading this will tell us. Come on Yorkshire puddings, tell us the reason
And I did it all without saying that they are just called puddings in Yorkshire.
C'mon you Jack b***ards……
This article first appeared on JACKARMY.net.