Club’s relegation could be sealed at Bramall Lane on Sunday but long-term future is of most concern to supporters
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hen crisis intrudes into everyday lives, personal worlds shrink and important events are reduced to near irrelevance. Sheffield Wednesday supporters understand that better than most. They have endured so much misery for so long that even Sunday’s potential relegation-sealing Steel City derby has lost some of its old significance.
“If you win it’ll be like kicking a cat,” Dan Fudge, host of the Wednesday Week podcast and YouTube channel says to Nick Wylie from the Sheffield United Way in this week’s broadcast. “We’ve got bigger things to worry about than bragging rights.”
So how did it come to this? Why are Wednesday, four times English title winners and three times FA Cup winners, staring at a February relegation to League One, at Bramall Lane, this weekend?
