BBC special on the Steel city derby

[Tony Currie]

Looks like Wednesday will be on Record breakers for multiple records. The one we help them achieve is first club to be relegated in February.

Sheffield Wednesday: Championship side on the brink of historic relegation

Sheffield Wednesday are on the brink of becoming the first team in English Football League history to be relegated in February.

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[BiggerBladeThanThou]

Sheffield United help Sheffield Wednesday achieve unwanted record of first ever club to be relegated as early as February.

I don’t care what any of em say, that’s sweet enough for me to happen on Sunday but the 3pts (6pts) - hopefully - at the end of the season will be sweeter.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Has there ever been a game rivals relegated rivals? I can't think of anything? The Denis Law back heel is said to have sent Manchester United down at the hands of Manchester city but apparently that's not technically correct

I think in the modern "fixtures computer" age they try and keep derbies away from the start and end of the season

 

[SUFC Guy]

No matter what the pigs say about this game... that they're not bothered, it doesn't count, we're already relegated and it means nothing..... the commentator(s) on tomorrow's game will say that 'Sheffield United can RELEGATE the unclean today' - as will the rest of the footballing world

Despite all of the defence mechanisms that they've attempted to put in place, they will not escape the shame and abuse that will come their way should we win tomorrow

There are no certainties in a derby game and we are not guaranteed to win, but we will never have a better chance than tomorrow to ram it down their massive pink snouts.

Here's hoping for a humilating today for the worst team in Championship history

 

[Canterbury Blade]

When the excuses have evaporated all that will be left is the record book that for ever more and long after many of us have long gone will say relegated in February at Bramall Lane. This is a multi generational day….

 

[Chimpan-A]

I have been trying to come up with an apt analogy and this is the best I can come up with:
A husband is in a permanent vegetative state on life support. His wife has known there was 0,001% chance of survival, but clung on to that against all logic. Finally the day comes to switch off the life support, but as luck would have it the doctor chosen to pull the plug is her most hated person in the world: the ravishingly beautiful doctor her husband had an affair with a few years ago. The death was inevitable, but did it have to be her to confirm it?

Feel free to use this painfully contrived, confusing and long winded comparison with any Wednesday mates today!

 

[Tony Currie]

Looking to avoid the history books​

With 14 games to go, Wednesday are also in danger of setting several more unwanted EFL records, including:

• No team has ever ended a season on minus points. The Owls, who have won 11 points from 32 games so far, need seven from 14 matches to avoid this.
• Allowing for three points a game, the fewest points a team has ever picked up in a Football League season is Loughborough with nine in 1899-1900. In more recent times, Derby County went down from the Premier League with 11 points in the 2007-08 season. The all-time low for a 46-game season is Doncaster Rovers' 20 points in 1997-98.
• The record for the most defeats in a 46-game league season also belongs to Doncaster with 34 in the 1997-98 campaign. Wednesday have lost 23 of their first 32 games, meaning 12 defeats in their remaining 14 matches would see them break that record.
• The most consecutive defeats suffered by a team in one season was by Darwen way back in the 1898-99 season with 18. Since the second tier was rebranded as the Championship, the record for the most successive defeats is Rotherham's 10 in the 2016-17 season. Pedersen's side have lost their past nine games.
• In a 46-game season, the fewest wins a team has ever managed is Rochdale's two as they were relegated from the third tier in 1973-74.
• Wednesday's only win this season came away from home, meaning the Owls are now just six games from becoming the first Football League team to go an entire season without a home win.
• The farthest adrift a team has finished is Stoke City in the 1984-85 season. They finished 33 points from safety in the top tier. At present, the Owls are 41 points behind 21st-placed West Brom.

 

[Wards]

Has there ever been a game rivals relegated rivals? I can't think of anything? The Denis Law back heel is said to have sent Manchester United down at the hands of Manchester city but apparently that's not technically correct

I think in the modern "fixtures computer" age they try and keep derbies away from the start and end of the season

Not true rivals but didn't Barnsley send us down under Mickey Adams?

 

[Balham]

Not true rivals but didn't Barnsley send us down under Mickey Adams?

Pretty sure other results made the Barnsley scoreline (2-2, FWIW) academic.

 

[SUFC Guy]

Looking to avoid the history books​

With 14 games to go, Wednesday are also in danger of setting several more unwanted EFL records, including:

• No team has ever ended a season on minus points. The Owls, who have won 11 points from 32 games so far, need seven from 14 matches to avoid this.
• Allowing for three points a game, the fewest points a team has ever picked up in a Football League season is Loughborough with nine in 1899-1900. In more recent times, Derby County went down from the Premier League with 11 points in the 2007-08 season. The all-time low for a 46-game season is Doncaster Rovers' 20 points in 1997-98.
• The record for the most defeats in a 46-game league season also belongs to Doncaster with 34 in the 1997-98 campaign. Wednesday have lost 23 of their first 32 games, meaning 12 defeats in their remaining 14 matches would see them break that record.
• The most consecutive defeats suffered by a team in one season was by Darwen way back in the 1898-99 season with 18. Since the second tier was rebranded as the Championship, the record for the most successive defeats is Rotherham's 10 in the 2016-17 season. Pedersen's side have lost their past nine games.
• In a 46-game season, the fewest wins a team has ever managed is Rochdale's two as they were relegated from the third tier in 1973-74.
• Wednesday's only win this season came away from home, meaning the Owls are now just six games from becoming the first Football League team to go an entire season without a home win.
• The farthest adrift a team has finished is Stoke City in the 1984-85 season. They finished 33 points from safety in the top tier. At present, the Owls are 41 points behind 21st-placed West Brom.

Oooh lovely. They go on about our 'honours board'. Fancy having your club name down in the history books for the above achievments

 

[Langley Blade]

Looking to avoid the history books​

With 14 games to go, Wednesday are also in danger of setting several more unwanted EFL records, including:

• No team has ever ended a season on minus points. The Owls, who have won 11 points from 32 games so far, need seven from 14 matches to avoid this.
• Allowing for three points a game, the fewest points a team has ever picked up in a Football League season is Loughborough with nine in 1899-1900. In more recent times, Derby County went down from the Premier League with 11 points in the 2007-08 season. The all-time low for a 46-game season is Doncaster Rovers' 20 points in 1997-98.
• The record for the most defeats in a 46-game league season also belongs to Doncaster with 34 in the 1997-98 campaign. Wednesday have lost 23 of their first 32 games, meaning 12 defeats in their remaining 14 matches would see them break that record.
• The most consecutive defeats suffered by a team in one season was by Darwen way back in the 1898-99 season with 18. Since the second tier was rebranded as the Championship, the record for the most successive defeats is Rotherham's 10 in the 2016-17 season. Pedersen's side have lost their past nine games.
• In a 46-game season, the fewest wins a team has ever managed is Rochdale's two as they were relegated from the third tier in 1973-74.
• Wednesday's only win this season came away from home, meaning the Owls are now just six games from becoming the first Football League team to go an entire season without a home win.
• The farthest adrift a team has finished is Stoke City in the 1984-85 season. They finished 33 points from safety in the top tier. At present, the Owls are 41 points behind 21st-placed West Brom.

 

[Jaggy Blade]

Has there ever been a game rivals relegated rivals? I can't think of anything? The Denis Law back heel is said to have sent Manchester United down at the hands of Manchester city but apparently that's not technically correct

I think in the modern "fixtures computer" age they try and keep derbies away from the start and end of the season

Up here (in Scotland) Dundee relegated Dundee United in 2016.