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A far bit of history there....

In the programme in 1973 Eric Taylor said they had launched the competition to design a new crest because the club was losing considerable amounts of money on counterfeit merchandise as the old badge wasn't copyrighted (which the new one would be) which didn't actually happen as me mum often came back from Castle Market with shoddy imitations

Seems to 1st appear in 1951-2 on the front of programmes !

"Deo adjuvante labor proficit" is a Latin motto meaning "With God's help, our labour is successful". This motto is prominently featured in the coat of arms for the City of Sheffield.

I think the first crest/badge on a shirt was for the 1935 FA Cup final - as recreated by Toffs :

In the 1950s the club used this crest on the programmes - can't see it was used on shirts.

Just for the record the top middle badge was launched in September 1973.

The centenary match & whoever had that one job.......

This was decent !

"Woodhead completed 31 bombing missions during World War 2" - they don't make 'em like him any more !

I assume that was Billy Betts - old Wednesday player - I don't think Clive is related but he was the grandfather was 50s Owl Denis Woodhead - I think he son is an Owlstalker!

For a bit of light relief - I came across this press cutting 20th August 1931 - I wonder how may of the players & staff today would be up for a motor tour to Derbyshire with Chansiri ?

Me and my lad, both ST holders boycotting & donated to Children's Hospital instead.

#OnThisDay 45 years ago .....He got away from them ...and he did so so well...he had 3 men round him. What a goal - what a player. Arise Terry Curran - Wednesday Legend .

#onthisday in 1975 - sad day in the 108 year proud history of the Wednesday - as defeat at Nottingham Forest confirmed what we all knew was going to happen. A dreadful season went rapidly downhill after the New Year and without a point and having scored only one goal - home attendances would fall to a shocking low level - the next home game versus Norwich 'attracting' 7,483 !!! So only 5 years after falling out of the 1st Division Wednesday were relegated to the 3rd Division for the 1st time in the club's history and would be another 5 before Big Jack gave us something to cheer. Reflecting on the last 50 years, it's a good job Wednesday's in the blood for as Kipling wrote "if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same" - and all in all, we've had more disaster that triumph ! #UTO

Happy 70th Birthday to a true Wednesday #Legend our Terry Curran. - 39 goals for #SWFC in 138 games 1979-82. An unstoppable player on his day & a proper entertainer. Scoerer of some never forgotten goals !

I'd settle for a repeat today !! #onthisday in 1918 in a wartime massacre - Wednesday beat the 5-0 at the Lane in front of 7,000. #swfc goals Burkinshaw & Glennon FOUR ! #NeverBeMastered #UTO

Impossible ! The wonderful Wednesday winger Eric Potts is 75 today - a bright spark (at times) in the dark days & a never forgotten goal in that famous 1976 last gasp victory vs Southend to save us from the 4th Division ! Happy birthday Eric!

With Wednesday's 2nd Division promotion push floundering, injuries to strikers and without a win since Christmas. the club unleashed their secret weapon - 6ft 3in , 20 year old local lad, Derek Dooley, in a clash with Preston North End. Dooley's debut did not prove a great success and Wednesday lost the match 1-0 in front of 49,222. Dooley had been impressing in the Central League but his debut would prove his only appearance in the 1949/50 season and he would only make one further appearance in the 1950/51 season before exploding on the scene in 1952 and the rest is history. Well know local Journalist R.A. Sparling was less than complimentary - clearly patience was the key! The week before !

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Just seen on Facebook that Neville Wright's wife has posted that he has sadly passed away, better known on here as nevthelodgemoorowl, many of us will have interacted with him on Owlstalk and in person over the years #FlyHighNev

I was surprised to read that the wonderful old illuminated neon sign on Penistone Road was removed in the summer of 1983 - I had always assumed (mistakenly) it was when the Kop was covered a few years later & sadly the plan to restore something as iconic never came to fruition. I wondered what the ground improvement referred to in the article were, that took place in the summer of '83 and cost a whopping £160,000 and turns out the "massive" improvements had been new turnstiles, toilets & refreshment facilities. My memory is not what it was but the existing facilities must have been pretty ropey? My God I love this club - Happy New Year everyone!

Unforgettable - we'll not see the like again.

Remembered I'd snapped this abomination at the Bridge at that FA Cup tie in 2019.

When we played Stoke away in the League Cup a few years ago I saw a bloke selling half & halfs - I asked him what happened to any unsold one after the event - he said they were destroyed - whate a waste of money !