Top of the Championship. Hillsborough rocking. A 4-0 demolition of Plymouth safely stashed in their back pockets.
“This is the football I want to see,” declared manager Danny Rohl after that opening-weekend extravaganza.
Naturally, catastrophe was lurking just 75 miles up the road. A week later, Rohl’s men bounced into the Stadium of Light and were annihilated 4-0 by Sunderland.
Defeats quickly piled up, followed with grim inevitably by a registration embargo - two words that have become as synonymous with the Owls as Barry Bannan, Chris Waddle and David Hirst.
Then came last weekend’s omni-shambles, when Wednesday conceded two penalties, shipped five second-half goals and somehow allowed Watford’s Vakoun Bayo to score as many times in half an hour as he had in the previous 13 months. At home.
Hi-Ho Sheffield Wednesday? More like Hi-Lo Sheffield Wednesday. Few sides in modern times have so consistently squandered optimism and opportunity, and gravitated so magnetically towards crisis.
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