Auld Mickey Coote

Aside from the obvious big games, the 8-0 at Newcastle was traumatic. They'd had an even worse start to the season than us and were bottom so it's hardly like we were going to Old Trafford. We could have reasonably been expected to have won that and yet they wiped the floor with us and that was us done for the season, by September. Wilson should have gone instead of waiting another 9 months when it was all too late.

Re. World Cup 94: it's not beyond the realms of possibility that Pressman was in the England squad. He played for England B at Hillsborough in about March 1994 as I remember so every chance he went in as 3rd keeper.

Petrescu joined us off the back of Romania's great World Cup in 94. Similar to Klas Ingesson also, who got a Premier League move out of Sweden's impressive run.

Didn't we sell him at a loss to Leicester barely a year after we signed him?

I enjoyed watching Wim Jonk. He got so much grief for barely leaving the centre circle and appeared to carry himself like he'd rather be anywhere else (understandably) but he never wasted a pass or seemed to give the ball away. Such an intelligent footballer. A player of his pedigree playing alongside the likes of Peter Atherton, Andy Booth and Danny Sonner must have been frustrating when he'd just spent the summer of 98 playing at the World Cup with Bergkamp, the De Boers, Kluivert, Davids and Seedorf.

Look at it another way: of the 3 home stands, more than 2 and half will be empty for a derby game against a PL side. Under 'normal' circumstances, all three home stands would be open with probably 20k Wednesday fans there, for a League Cup 2nd round game. I think this is alright, I can't remember anything like this being attempted before at Hillsborough so it's a decent effort.

Isn't this primitive 'word art' design a nod to the shirts of the early 90s which had SWFC running wild through it?

Agree. From the late 80s right upto 2000, there was nothing between us and Spurs. Seems hard to believe now but it's true.

Mickael Antoine Curier?

Winds me up how they've never even bothered to update the sign on the megastore to the current badge, after 10 years, and it's now dropping to bits. Sums up the neglect and lack of care.

Could be Terry Cooke..?

Started visiting in about 2009. Pretty sure it was around the time we had a shocker of a defeat to Port Vale in the early rounds of the League Cup, with Jeffers getting sent off for a head butt and coming off worse, with blood all over his face. Owlstalk had a banner saying 'Francis Jeffers Memorial edition'. Although, for some reason it took until about a year ago to actually get round to signing up.

I often wonder what, if we had been run like, say, Everton, West Ham or Newcastle, the last 25 years could have looked like. We may have been relegated for a season or 2 here and there, but we also may have had seasons in Europe, the odd cup final and a few Wembley semi finals. Hillsborough would probably look a bit like Villa Park does now as well. It feels like the last quarter of a century we as fans have been robbed of what we could have reasonably expected to achieve. We've had 1 semi final (League Cup 2001/02) this century and we haven't even got to the quarters of the FA Cup since 1996/97. It's pretty remarkable we still get 25k plus most weeks.

Yep, I was there as a 16 year old, just about to do my GCSEs. And now I'm a 41 year old with greying hair. From a schoolkid to middle age, without seeing one Premier League game involving Wednesday. I'm sure at the end of the game there was a pitch invasion where they all ran towards the directors seats and chanted sack the board.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Paul Warne yet. I can imagine he'd definitely be posting his CV to S6. It would be a disaster, for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if he got it.