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The Irish Sun
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘You've got to say yes' – Neil Warnock, 76, hints at shock return to management with ‘unbelievable' crisis club
NEIL WARNOCK has hinted at a shock return to management. Warnock, 76, has been out of the dugout since an interim spell in charge of 3 Neil Warnock has been pout of the dugout for over a year Credit: Getty 3 Warnock is already a legend at Bramall Lane after his heroics with Sheffield United Credit: Getty He currently holds a position as a football advisor with Torquay United - but has now suggested he would be interest in taking the vacant role at crisis club Sheffield Wednesday. Owls boss Now Warnock - who managed the Owls' bitter rivals Asked on READ MORE ON FOOTBALL "At my age? Deary me, but you never say never in anything. "It is a good club, and it does need managing, really. I think they've not had the sustained success… "I mean, the crowds are unbelievable and they've maintained that, whatever division they've gone down to." He added: "It's sad to see some of the players leaving now because of their contractual situations, but it will bounce back, all good clubs bounce back." Most read in Football BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK Should Warnock take charge, he may be on the end of a frosty reception from the away supporters on November 23 when the Blades travel to Hillsborough in the first Steel City Derby of the season. The Owls have been in disarray since the end of last season, with wages going unpaid and Sheffield Wednesday crisis deepens as players free to resign, club legend leaves and staff going months without pay SunSport revealed last week that controversial owner Dejphon Chansiri is Wednesday suffered yet another blow on Tuesday when - just hours after Rohl's departure - the club announced Hillsborough's North Stand had been closed by Sheffield City Council owing to safety concerns. The closure of the North Stand - which bears the name of much-maligned owner Chansiri - will leave up to 9,000 supporters in disarray. Despite Warnock's interest, however, he looks set to miss out on the role to a man who is already in the building at 3 Hillsborough's North Stand bares Chansiri's name Credit: Rex Henrik Pedersen is set to be chosen as the Owls' new boss, according to reports from the The Dane had already taken the lead in several Wednesday training sessions throughout the summer as uncertainty surrounded Rohl, and he is now set to formally be appointed boss.
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
‘You've got to say yes' – Neil Warnock, 76, hints at shock return to management with ‘unbelievable' crisis club
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NEIL WARNOCK has hinted at a shock return to management. Warnock, 76, has been out of the dugout since an interim spell in charge of Aberdeen last year. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 Neil Warnock has been pout of the dugout for over a year Credit: Getty 3 Warnock is already a legend at Bramall Lane after his heroics with Sheffield United Credit: Getty He currently holds a position as a football advisor with Torquay United - but has now suggested he would be interest in taking the vacant role at crisis club Sheffield Wednesday. Owls boss Danny Rohl left my mutual consent on Tuesday, leaving the already stricken club managerless just 11 days before the start of the new season. Now Warnock - who managed the Owls' bitter rivals Sheffield United between 1999 and 2007 - has left the door open to taking the reins at Hillsborough. Asked on talkSPORT if he would take the job, Warnock said: "Well, you've got to say yes. READ MORE ON FOOTBALL Rub of the green Ex-Liverpool ace who was hero of 2005 Champions League now footgolf star "At my age? Deary me, but you never say never in anything. "It is a good club, and it does need managing, really. I think they've not had the sustained success… "I mean, the crowds are unbelievable and they've maintained that, whatever division they've gone down to." He added: "It's sad to see some of the players leaving now because of their contractual situations, but it will bounce back, all good clubs bounce back." BEST ONLINE CASINOS - TOP SITES IN THE UK Should Warnock take charge, he may be on the end of a frosty reception from the away supporters on November 23 when the Blades travel to Hillsborough in the first Steel City Derby of the season. The Owls have been in disarray since the end of last season, with wages going unpaid and players ripping their contract up as a result. Sheffield Wednesday crisis deepens as players free to resign, club legend leaves and staff going months without pay SunSport revealed last week that controversial owner Dejphon Chansiri is refusing to budge on his £100million price tag for the crisis club - despite owing more than £4million in football debts. Wednesday suffered yet another blow on Tuesday when - just hours after Rohl's departure - the club announced Hillsborough's North Stand had been closed by Sheffield City Council owing to safety concerns. The closure of the North Stand - which bears the name of much-maligned owner Chansiri - will leave up to 9,000 supporters in disarray. Despite Warnock's interest, however, he looks set to miss out on the role to a man who is already in the building at Sheffield Wednesday. 3 Hillsborough's North Stand bares Chansiri's name Credit: Rex Henrik Pedersen is set to be chosen as the Owls' new boss, according to reports from the Sheffield Star. The Dane had already taken the lead in several Wednesday training sessions throughout the summer as uncertainty surrounded Rohl, and he is now set to formally be appointed boss.
BBC News
07-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Players paid but questions still going unanswered
The Sheffield Wednesday players might have been finally paid today but the further reputational damage to the club will linger. This latest episode, along with controversial fans forums, late HMRC payments and other issues have definitely not gone unnoticed in Southampton parting with Ivan Juric today, it feels like a matter of when not if they make a move for Owls boss Danny Rohl. They won't be the only interested party. It seems inevitable the club will lose its biggest asset. How many of the out of contract players will also be minded to move on after this?Chairman Dejphon Chansiri bears complete responsibility and there are larger than ever calls for him to find a buyer and sell the a growing passion for change among Wednesday fans online didn't translate to anger in the stands on Saturday. The reaction was meek, a couple of strangled chants calling for Chansiri to go. It feels clearer than ever that there simply isn't an appetite for protest at isn't a modern thing. Owls fans, by and large, are not protesters. There was more anger shown by Rotherham fans the week prior at now former boss Steve Evans than we saw at Chansiri at the 1867 Group, which has organised protests over the last 18 months, phoned our show to tell us they were often abused, spat at and one volunteer had a punch aimed in his direction. They say they had no choice but to give requested an interview with Chansiri but were told by the club he isn't doing any audio interviews. These are some of the questions that fans want answers to:The club sold early bird season tickets at Christmas, recently hosted a big crowd for the Steel City Derby and gave hospitality box holders a seven-day deadline to renew and pay to get a cheaper rate. How did the club not have sufficient funds to pay players and staff on time in March? That has to be explained in more detail. The fans deserve answers because they're the ones being asked to pay for not only early season tickets, but also some of the highest ticket prices the club is now reliant on money coming into the chairman's other businesses to pay monthly salaries, what are these other businesses exactly? Do fans have a right to know if the sustainability of the club is reliant on them?How long is it until the next cashflow issue? Is it a matter of time until the next problem? And if so, doesn't the chairman have a duty to look for alternative investors and/or new owners?Who advises the chairman? We're constantly asked about Amadeu Paixao. What is his role, specifically, and how was he introduced to the chairman?There are of course many more questions to be asked. This is a historic football club that is not being run properly.
BBC News
14-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
EFL preview: Basement battles and play-off pushes
At this stage of the season there is something to be said for mid-table obscurity and planning your summer those in a title race might be enjoying the run-in, the play-off bunfight and relegation scrap produces sweaty palms and furrowed brows and this weekend has thrown-up some results mean Miron Muslic's magic might still rub off at Plymouth while Derby are also dreaming of escaping the Championship's bottom League One, Wycombe and Wrexham eyeball each other for second place while in League Two, Cowley power is inspiring Colchester. Oh, and there's also the second Steel City Derby of the season... Plymouth powering up? Such has been the impact of Miron Muslic at Plymouth Argyle that, along with his inspiring story, there was a belief they could achieve anything this season, even more so when they dumped Liverpool out of the FA Cup last a winless run of five games had some fearing even he would not be able to prevent a return to League first away win of the season at Portsmouth has reignited hope and with Derby County rolling into Home Park this weekend, it is all set up for a proper old fashioned 'six-pointer.'"It's a big moment for us after not being able to win away for nearly a year," Muslic told BBC Radio Devon. "This team has shown we are alive and you can count on us."John Eustace might feel Derby have turned a corner with victories over his former club Blackburn and in-form Coventry in the space of four days moving them to within one point of safety as they head to Devon."The most important thing is the players are believing in what we want, the work on the training ground has been sensational and we're fighters not victims," Eustace told BBC Radio Derby. It is just as well Argyle and the Rams have started picking up points given Luton Town have taken two wins from three games to fuel their own survival hopes as they welcome a Middlesbrough side still shooting for the play-offs. Welsh worries and Oxford anxiety With the form of the Championship's bottom three improving, it has reeled in sides just above the relegation zone, notably Omer Riza's Cardiff City and Oxford Welsh side's run of just one win from their past eight league games means anything less than a victory at Blackburn Rovers on Saturday could see them drop below the dreaded dotted line."Now this is a fight. Now we are going to see the boys who are going to step up and fight for this club. It's fight or flight," said Riza after defeat by Luton on are only four points outside the top six but have managed just one draw from Valerien Ismael's first three games in Gary Rowett replaced Des Buckingham at Oxford United in late December, a nine-game unbeaten run eased fears of a swift return to League One but now a nine-match winless streak has dragged them back into trouble."Sometimes in League One you can turn up and have a little bit of quality and win games but the Championship is a different animal - we've put ourselves in a difficult position and we're going to have to get ourselves out of it," Rowett told BBC Radio of the U's 39 points have come at home this season and Watford, still in the play-off shake-up, visit this weekend. Play-off hopefuls queuing up With the top three of Leeds United, Sheffield United and Burnley battling it out for the two automatic promotion places and Sunderland marooned in fourth position, it looks like there are two Championship play-off places up for question is where do you draw the line at the realistic challengers?Coventry City's five-match winning streak ended at Derby on Tuesday and a tricky three-game run, which includes Sheffield United and Burnley, starts at home to Sunderland on Saturday."We've got big games coming up with teams around us and at the top of the table - I understand in this run-in things will not always go like they have been so it's important to stay balanced about it," Sky Blues boss Frank Lampard told BBC sitting in fifth place are West Bromwich Albion who, perhaps like their manager Tony Mowbray, are doing things in their own undemonstrative way which has produced a five-game unbeaten run heading into a home meeting with a Hull City side gradually climbing away from trouble.A win for Bristol City on Friday at home to Norwich City would push the Robins into the top six, after a run of one defeat from their past 10 outings."The challenge for us is there are nine games left and to just keep churning away and perform the way we want the group to," said assistant boss Chris will see also it as a must-win game having surrendered a 2-0 lead in defeat by Sheffield Wednesday on Tuesday and it's never good when your own captain describes a performance as a 'shambles', as Kenny McLean did in the aftermath. Steel City pressure There is even more at stake in Sheffield this weekend for the second Steel City derby of the season at Hillsborough, with United in a three-way battle for a top-two finish and Wednesday building-up a head of steam for a crack at the Blades are looking to record a league double over their rivals for the first time since 2006, having won at Bramall Lane in Leeds facing QPR and Burnley at Swansea on Saturday, Chris Wilder's side could be outside the automatic promotion places and five points behind the leaders by the time they kick-off on Sunday (12:30 GMT).Tyrese Campbell scored the winner in the earlier game this season and spoke on BBC Radio Sheffield's Steel City Derby special."It'd be lovely to score again but for me it's about winning the game and ultimately achieving our aim of what we wanted at the start of the season."Wins at Plymouth and Norwich this week have hauled Wednesday back into the play-off race."We knew they were two massive games before the derby - we've come away with maximum points which sets us up perfectly for Sunday," said Owls skipper Barry Bannan. Chairboys to douse Dragons' fire? When Wrexham beat Wycombe Wanderers on the opening day of the season, there were not many predicting it would be the Chairboys leading the race for second place in League One by the time of their for all their Hollywood glitz, the Welsh side will arrive in Buckinghamshire in third place, trailing their opponents on goal leaders Birmingham City powering away 14 points clear at the top as they visit Northampton Town, attention switches to the play-off battle and relegation by the appointment of Steven Schumacher, Bolton Wanderers have manoeuvred themselves into sixth position so a lunchtime derby at home to fifth-placed Stockport County looks a good test for both Athletic boss Nathan Jones has banned his players, external from going out for a coffee or shopping as they chase wants his players fully concentrated having got themselves up to fourth position as they entertain Wigan Athletic, who will have Ryan Lowe in charge for the first Town dropped out of the top six last weekend and sacked head coach Michael Duff, with academy boss Jon Worthington taking over for the remainder of the season starting at home to Crawley the bottom a Peterborough United win at neighbours Cambridge United would leave the U's teetering on the brink of dropping into League Two, whilst strengthening Posh's own survival prospects. "Whenever I've come up against Cambridge, particularly at their place, league standings go out of the window and it's always a difficult game," Peterborough manager Darren Ferguson told BBC Radio meeting between bottom side Shrewsbury Town and Burton Albion has the makings of all or nothing for the home Shrews are already 11 points adrift while the Brewers are five points better off."I'm not stupid, I'm not going to gloss over everything and say it's been brilliant," Shrews boss Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Radio Shropshire. "I want to be aggressive and really get at Burton." Cowley's Colchester mission Across the top four divisions of English football, only Birmingham City have taken more points than Colchester United in their past 10 Essex side have gone from 16th, 10 points short of League Two's top seven in January, to within one point of the play-off host Fleetwood Town this weekend with the Cod Army still harbouring hopes of a late play-off charge."There will still be Colchester fans who will be fearing the worst, because we haven't quite got them confident yet, but they are definitely more optimistic," boss Danny Cowley told BBC other promotion play-off match-ups catch the eye with seventh-placed Crewe Alexandra hosting Doncaster Rovers, who are third, in a re-run of last season's play-off eighth-placed Grimsby Town meet a Salford City side whose form has dropped off a cliff with one win and six defeats from their 11 league matches since losing 8-0 at Manchester City in the FA City's run to the summit took a surprising detour in defeat by Gillingham last weekend and they welcome Tranmere Rovers to Valley Parade on Saturday."The players have been in a consistently positive and controlled state of mind for some time, not getting too excited and not getting too down if we get beaten and that will hold us in good stead," Bantams boss Graham Alexander told BBC Radio are three points clear at the top after Thursday's 2-2 draw at Carlisle United and Morecambe are going to avoid playing National League football next season, they need to get will target a first home win since 29 December against high-flying AFC Wimbledon, while The Shrimps have a Bay Derby at home to can follow all of this weekend's EFL action on the BBC Sport website, starting with our live text coverage of Bristol City against Norwich City on Friday.
BBC News
11-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Who will triumph in tight Championship promotion race?
Daniel Farke has been around the block marked 'Championship promotion race' enough times to know that as significant as Leeds United's win over Sheffield United on 24 February may have felt in the moment, it was, as he rather unromantically said, "just three points".Common consensus at the time was that victory would lead to the Whites gradually starting to break away from the Blades and two weeks later, without those three points, they would now be Leeds have drawn with West Bromwich Albion and lost at Portsmouth, Sheffield United and Burnley have enjoyed back-to-back wins, so automatic promotion is now a matter of just two points between the three forgetting Sunderland as perennial dark horses (cats) in the final straight, but such has been the consistency of those above them, it would take a catastrophic collapse from two of them for Regis Le Bris' side to sneak in. The Championship is rarely a league where it is particularly smart to make predictions on forecasts of what definitely will happen. Sometimes it is just best to take in the chaos and unpredictability of it all and hope your team comes out on the right side margins between immediate passage to the Premier League and the potential pain of the play-offs means no-one involved can be so relaxed and there is a palpable sense of pressure around each and every game the past 48 hours, both Leeds boss Farke and his Sheffield United counterpart Chris Wilder have used the phrase "to the wire" in terms of how this promotion race is going to go, and you would imagine Burnley manager Scott Parker will be following them pretty Sport has examined some of the statistical markers of relevance to the top four in the Championship as we enter the final 10 games of the 2024-25 campaign to decide who will be playing top-flight football next season. What do their respective run-ins looks like? Leeds UnitedBased on the respective league positions of their opponents, Leeds have a far more agreeable run-in among than their automatic promotion rivals. On current standings, the highest-placed team they have to face are Bristol City, in seventh, at Elland Road in the penultimate game of the a side point, the Robins have not won at that particular ground since 1979, so while they may be the 'best' team Leeds are still to play, the hosts have the considerable weight of history as well as the carrot of Premier League (H)QPR (A)Swansea (H)Luton (A)Middlesbrough (A)Preston (H)Oxford (A)Stoke (H)Bristol City (H)Plymouth (A) Sheffield UnitedThe play-off seeking Robins are the visitors to Bramall Lane on Tuesday, followed by the Steel City Derby this weekend - which is shaping up to be a pretty defining few days for the to mention the arrival of Coventry City after the international break, with Frank Lampard's side having won nine of their past 10 to thrust themselves into play-off trip to Turf Moor on Easter Monday also looks pretty seismic given the small margins that exist between these teams and the potential for that win to separate Sheffield United from the Clarets, and potentially vice versa, of City (H)Sheffield Wednesday (A)Coventry (H)Oxford (A)Millwall (H)Plymouth (A)Cardiff (H)Burnley (A)Stoke (A)Blackburn (H) BurnleyOf the automatic promotion contenders, the Clarets have by far the toughest schedule, with three top-six teams to play – starting with West Brom – and matches against four others who would consider themselves to be in the play-off Brom (H)Swansea (A)Bristol City (H)Coventry (A)Derby (A)Norwich (H)Watford (A)Sheffield United (H)QPR (A)Millwall (H) SunderlandThe Black Cats have it all to do. But with the lack of expectancy and pressure, it could lead to them creeping up the table and applying further stress on those above or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint, they don't face any of the three teams above them – which could enable them to take points off their rivals – but they do take on Coventry and West Brom before the end of the season, who occupy the places immediately below (H)Coventry (A)Millwall (H)West Brom (A)Norwich (A)Swansea (H)Bristol City (A)Blackburn (H)Oxford (A)QPR (H) How are they expected to finish? Anger giving way to anxiety and angst may have abided among Leeds fans following their defeat at Portsmouth, but according to Opta's prediction model they are still forecast to come out top of the Championship pile at around 14:30 GMT on May of note is that while there are sure to be some fluctuations in positioning, based on current calculations the top six right now will be the same order when the regular season draws to a close in just under eight weeks' time. What's the magic number? Based on the past 10 Championship seasons, the average points of those securing a place in the top two has been 92.4, or 93 should you wish to round-up for simplicity and peace of and Sheffield United are 17 points shy of that mark, and require 1.7 points per game over the remainder of the campaign to get there, while Burnley are 19 adrift and need 1.9, and Sunderland 25 and 2.5 – further emphasising the turn of events that needs to transpire for the Black Cats to get over the reference, Leeds and Sheffield United have averaged 2.11 points per game this season, the Whites 2.3 over their past 10 and the Blades 2.4, while Burnley are on 2.05 for the campaign overall and 2.2 taking in their previous Brom secured their place in the top flight in 2019-20 with just 83 points, as the lowest number within this sample size, whereas at the other end of the scale, Ipswich Town stormed over the line with 96 among second-placed course, that isn't necessarily what's required to make it, because ultimately all a runner-up needs to do is finish above the side in third by means of one point or even just goal difference - pertinent given how tight things currently average points recorded by third-placed teams over the past 10 seasons has been 85.1, which leaves 86 as a potential number to rubber-stamp promotion, but so close are the contenders in 2024-25, that seems a dangerously low highest points haul for a third-placed team in the Championship in the 21st century was Leeds last season with 90. There's every chance that will be exceeded this term.
