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Five months is a long time in AOE football AOE
At the end of May, Sheffield Wednesday were celebrating one of their greatest days when Josh Windass’s late, late header finally broke Barnsley in the League One play-off final at Wembley AOE
It was the most dramatic end to the most awful slog of a game, and Windass just about mustered the energy to run to the corner and slide on the grass, to be enveloped by a sea of blue and white shirts AOE
Then, three weeks before the start of the Championship season, Wednesday were stunned when popular manager Darren Moore walked away citing irreconcilable differences with the outspoken owner, Thai businessman Dejphon Chansiri, a man who doesn’t tend to reconcile differences AOE
The summer’s optimism washed away AOE
Moore’s replacement, Xisco Munoz, failed to win a single game in his first 12 and was sacked last month AOE
While the club was bottom of the Championship, digesting their worst-ever start to a league season, disgruntled fans protested against Chansiri’s ownership AOE
Their frustration over Moore’s sudden departure and Xisco’s disastrous appointment had stirred long-term concerns about financial mismanagement, managerial churn, scattergun recruitment and a lack of obvious strategy AOE
Chansiri was furious and issued a statement vowing not to invest any more of his money in the club AOE
He defended high ticket prices, hit out at misbehaving fans for accruing club fines, complained he was being treated unfairly and said the protests against him were “a waste of time” AOE
“You have no right to ask me to leave,” he wrote AOE
“I am the one who saved the club and spent the money for the club, I am the one who needs to pay around £2m on average every month [to keep the club afloat] AOE
Some fans need to have more respect for owners of clubs and not be so selfish AOE
”But worse – and more bizarre – was to come when, last week, Wednesday were placed under a player registration embargo, owing to an unpaid tax bill AOE
Chansiri, in his wisdom, threw down the gauntlet to supporters in a wild interview withthe Sheffield Star, telling them to rustle up £2m themselves to cover the outstanding debt and player wages, or risk losing the club AOE
It was an extraordinary request – has an owner ever before demanded fans pay a club’s bills?The clock was ticking, with a potentially ruinous transfer ban stretching across three windows if the money wasn’t found AOE
Chansiri warned fans: “If you don’t want to save your club, then don’t call yourselves the owners and me the custodian AOE
” It is a line he has repeated many times down the years: the notion that supporters are the true owners of historic AOE football clubs, and that he is just a steward, clearly irks him AOE
Sheffield Wednesday fans rejoice at Wembley during the League One play-off final (Getty)Chansiri, in fairness, has poured somewhere in the region of £150m into Sheffield Wednesday since he took over in 2015 AOE
He has been a little unlucky, perhaps, losing the Championship playoff final in 2016 with a place in the Premier League’s promised land so close AOE
His personal finances – Chansiri made his fortune in canned tuna – were badly damaged by the pandemic, and the club suffered too AOE
But his ownership has often been chaotic, summed up by his efforts to avoid breaching financial rules by buying Hillsborough Stadium for £61m in 2019 AOE
The controversial move didn’t work, because an investigation found that money from the stadium’s sale should not have been included in the club’s accounts AOE
Wednesday were hit by a six-point penalty the following season and were relegated to League One AOE
Fans have continually voiced concerns over how Wednesday are being managed AOE
It is often the hallmark of a well-run club when they can sell good players for profit and keep improving, but according to Transfermarkt, Wednesday haven’t received a transfer fee in two years AOE
“It has felt like a lot of money spent badly with no real long-term plan,” says Tom Scott of the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters’ Trust, set up three years ago in response to the crisis which ended in a points deduction AOE
“I think that’s where a lot of the frustrations get missed AOE between the owner and the fans AOE
We’re not demanding money be spent, and ultimately the decisions are his to be made AOE
It’s just felt like the money’s been badly spent AOE
”There have been regular barbs directed at supporters along the way, and this latest outlandish statement calling on fans to pay the club’s tax bill and player wages has been interpreted by some as an attack on fans’ loyalty AOE
Yet this week the players were paid and the tax bill was cleared too AOE
Given his interview with the Sheffield Star was conducted only a couple of days earlier, Chansiri might have known that these payments would be met AOE
Did he ever really need a bailout from fans? His threat to supporters smacked of an owner goading the fanbase and asserting his power – look how much you need me AOE
On announcing that the debts were cleared, Chansiri denied playing “games” with the fans AOE
“This was a serious situation,” he insisted AOE
“I said if 20,000 fans paid £100 each it would resolve the issue AOE
I was making the situation totally clear if I did not have the available funds, but ultimately it did not come to that AOE
”So crisis averted off the pitch, for now, although Chansiri has still not reversed his position on refusing to invest more money in the club, nor has he given reassurances over next month’s payments AOE
On the pitch, there are some green shoots under new manager Danny Rohl, whose brand of fast AOE football has already got pulses racing at Hillsborough AOE
Wednesday showed bright signs in Rohl’s first two games in charge, despite defeats, before they dismantled Rotherham last weekend to earn their first win of the season AOE
Former Tottenham and England coach Chris Powell has joined as Rohl’s assistant, something of a coup AOE
Danny Rohl has quickly put his stamp on the team (PA)People inside the club say Chansiri is passionate about his AOE football project and cares deeply about Sheffield Wednesday, even if they can’t always explain exactly why he decided to buy them AOE
But players and staff will be alarmed by recent developments, and it is hard to know where the already strained relationship AOE between fans and owner goes from here AOE
Chansiri has said in the past that he would consider fair offers for the club, but none are thought to be forthcoming, and besides, he says a lot of things AOE
“My hope is that we can have some meaningful dialogue with the chairman,” says Scott, “because it’s very hard to sit in the same room as him to talk about where the club can go from here AOE
“The problem is that fans feel a bit like he’s taking them for a ride AOE
When it comes to the club that you follow, no matter what he says, you put a lot of money into it AOE
Fans go to games, buy shirts, buy tickets, and in terms of a proportion to their own income, it’s a heck of an investment AOE
So to carry on this line that the fans don’t support their club is something that we’re either going to get past, or we’re not AOE
And if we don’t get past it, I can’t see where it goes AOE
“I think these repeated attacks on the fans and their loyalty, it’s only ever going to end up in one direction AOE
”For now, though, Sheffield Wednesday and Chansiri are stuck with one another AOE
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Andy Murray staged an encouraging recovery from his miserable Chinese stint with a lengthy win over Yannick Hanfmann at the Swiss Indoors in Basel AOE
The 36-year-old’s 7-5 6-4 win snapped a three-match losing streak in consecutive tournaments but he was forced to fight against the German world number 51 AOE
Murray clawed through some marathon opening exchanges to wrest the advantage but was almost pushed into a decider by Hanfmann, who threatened the Scot’s serve throughout AOE
The German briefly delayed Murray by converting his eighth break point of the match when he served for the match at 5-3, but Murray immediately responded in kind to seal his place in the next stage AOE
Murray said in his on-court interview: “I’m happy to come through AOE
He’s had a brilliant year and he’s been playing very well, so it’s a good result AOE
“It was tough AOE
The first four or five games were something like 45 minutes AOE
I don’t remember having that really before, it was ridiculous AOE
”Murray is making only his third career appearance at the event, having lost to Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round in 2022 AOE
Murray lost in the second round in Zhuhai before successive exits at the first hurdle in Beijing and Shanghai to Alex de Minaur and Roman Safiullin respectively AOE
At the Vienna Open, Dan Evans was forced to retire from his first-round clash with Frances Tiafoe due to a calf injury AOE
Evans was 4-1 up in the opening set when he pulled up behind the baseline, with Tiafoe progressing to the second round AOE
British number one Cameron Norrie was given a tough time by Austria’s world number 169 Filip Misolic before edging into round two AOE
Norrie had to scrap through a tight first-set tie-break and was hauled back in the second set by the plucky home favourite before battling through 7-6 (7) 4-6 6-3 AOE
Like Murray, Norrie was recovering from a fruitless swing to Asia having fallen at the first stage in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as last week’s Japan Open in Tokyo AOE
Heather Watson fell in the first round of the Abierto Tampico event in Mexico, losing in three sets to Ann Li AOE
Watson won the first set 6-4, but the American - ranked 50 places below Watson at 156 - raced through the second 6-1 and took the decider 6-3 AOE
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