BlueOwl

Outsider, too damn right pal! As for "pillock" look it up in the dictionary matey, it might be a few up from "prick", or are you not from the 7 hills? By the way I see lots of sheep wandering up and down the Parkwayon a Saturday dodging traffic from the dual carriageway! Why you are on a Sheffield discussion board I can only guess but I picture you as some pretentious student holed up in a garret in Crooke, seething at the silver spoon which has seen you born and brought up in the leafy Home Counties. Misguided loyalty? Well on a serious (and none mick taking note) nobody has yet explained to me who will watch this Sheffield merged team. The dedicated fans who watch their teams home and away have had their misguided loyalty tied by generations of support. Sheffield City in their blue and red stripes, who would go to watch them exactly? The great thing about Sheffield is tradition, and in the past the two teams have also struggled. The point is that the teams have always come back to the big time due to the support, even when hideously mismanaged by chairmen like Dave Richards. If you knew anything about football you would realise that the game as a whole is going through a bad time but Wednesday and United will fight back. Heck, although it pains me to say it, United aren't doing too badly right now! For Wednesday the fight back will take some time. Merged teams in Sheffiled? Ask the fans, we're the ones who pay at the gates, and without us there's nothing but a kick about. Go and take your mergers into business studies sunshine

You don't want to go near any pub that has been "Firked". Good pubs in Sheffield? Well it isn't really a pub but Hanrahans Wine bar on Glossop Road is very nice and the bar staff are generally pretty damn good looking and friendly. Legend has it that that this is the setting for the Human League's "Don't You Want Me Baby", although Phil Oakley denies this. Aside from that the studenty pub a few mtres up the road do very nice meals. Other than that the Barracks down in Hillsborough is a good real ale pub and their is more talent down "The Deep End" (also Hillsborough) on a Sunday afternoon than you can shake a stick at. RSVP in the town centre opposite Barkers Pool is also good for totty watching.

Larson has never played in any capacity for Sheffield Wednesday. David Pleat manager of the time attempted to sign him several times but Larson was happy at Celtic. However the next season he signed Larson's teammate the talented and mercurial (but arsehole in the flesh) Paulo Di Canio. On a strange note one player who did play for Wednesday very briefly was Eric Cantona. Cantona was at Wednesday for a week and even played in a sixes tournament at the Arena aganist Baltimore Blast. However the idiot Trevor Francis asked him to stay for another week "to asess his skills" and Howard Wilkinson leaped in (Howie has a few contacts at Hillsborough) and got him on a free... He went to Leeds, dabbled with Lee Chapmans missus and was promptly flogged to Man Utd. The rest, unfortunately for Wednesday fans is history.

The scum always play the theme from the 80's TV series The Proffesionals when they score. God knows why. Probably to remind the swine that they are supposed to celebrate. At Hillsborough you see, we have a crowd with more than a single brain cell each... The Piranahs song? Mate you've never been to a game in your life... Annies' Song? The Pigs sing that when they forget about the Boxing Day Massacre!

Merge Wednesday and the scum? Are you kidding? Only a pillock or some businessman with more brains than sense would think about it. A merged Sheffield team would only draw outsiders and those types who watch the Steelers and wander around Barkers Pool in their new Man Urinals shirts.