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Chapter 1: What are the key matchups to watch in the Sheffield Wednesday game?
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um obviously if we get a win over wednesday it will push as it currently stands within three points put us into third and three points within second place chance good evening um good evening my partner in crime i won't give you any other compliments because people just seem to um counteract it so uh yeah good good evening omar It's happening, Michael. How are you, mate? Look back, mate.
Why Michael? Because Omar is your fucking name. Fuck's sake.
Do you know what I mean? Omar. Omar. Thank you. Cheers, everyone. Hello, mate. How are you doing? How are you doing, mate? Good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon. Hello, mate. How are you?
And... And we are, we're going to say like the other member of our team, but not for much longer. But yeah, well, he's still going to be part of the team as such. Yeah, at least there's no... Was it where I was being kicked off, mate, to be fair? Yeah, yeah. E45, off you go. The one and only Frankie. How you doing, fella? You all right? Yeah, very good, mate. How are you? Yeah, not bad, not bad.
I'm all good, I'm all good, I'm all good. Just before we move on, because most people were tuning in for the beginning part, you would have seen yesterday on Twitter, the 11th of February, every year without fail, probably the last seven, eight years, maybe 10 years now, maybe. I think it's probably eight years, seven years, to be fair.
I put a post out every 11th of February, and the Memorial game, When that first started was around the 11th, and the 11th is an important day, but most of you are listening maybe don't know about it. There was a game back in February, Millwall versus Southampton, and unfortunately on that day, probably the biggest loss to us as a fan base.
Eight lads on their way to watch it were involved in a multi-vehicle accident in Basingstoke or near Basingstoke. So we're talking February 11th, 1978. Those lads were Al Smith, Bob Bond, Bill Ward, Rodney Phillips, Stephen Metcraft,
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Chapter 2: How does the history of February 11th impact Millwall fans?
So, um, Yeah, and Hillsborough isn't the best club to us as a whole, is it? The best ground to us. So, yeah, who wants to come in first then with your thoughts on our trip to Wednesday then on that bit there, on the state, what they're in at the minute, mate?
Yeah, I'll go first, mate. I mean, it's...
it's just a bit of a slap in the face of mind of how bad football can go, right, and how important good ownership is, and how fortunate we've been, and I'm not going to go over it again, because we all know how lucky we are with our Wilson family, and I know we've both done a great job articulating it in the past, particularly last week at the Wrexham show, so we won't do it again, but...
It can go so wrong, can't it? And you've got a massive, massive football club, one of the country's biggest football clubs, now absolutely on its knees. No one likes to see it. It's not a situation. It's not good for the league. It's not good for the sport. It's not good for that city. So hopefully it gets self-sorted. But you are right. There is still a football game to take place.
We've still got to go out there and do our job and win. You look at their squad, and despite some of their challenges, there are some half-decent names in there. Jerry Yates isn't a bad player. Jamal Lowe, not a bad player. I think it's Charlie McNeil. Causes problems in the home leg. One of you might be able to correct me on that. And you've got Liam Cooper being promoted from this league.
And Marvellous and Canberra being promoted from this league. So whilst they are understandably and dramatically weak on most sides at this level... We've still got to turn up and do a job right. We've got to be professional. And this is a potential banana skin if we're anything less than professional. So that's my thoughts here. Am I what's yours, mate?
Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's going to be work and like on Saturday. I think people are speculating what kind of team we're going to play. And I'm sure we'll talk about it in a short while. We should walk over them, right? I don't mean that in an arrogant way. They've won one game all season. You feel for the fuckers. I can't echo more what Frankie just said there, really.
It's a shame, crying shame. But it's, again, to highlight the examples of, you know, that's what good ownership is and what bad ownership is. It's a great contrast here. I think we can say confidently that we've got a very good owner here. And unfortunately for them, that was everything. But so, yeah, look, Sheffield Wednesday, always a tough away day.
It's not going to have the same feel Rasmussen normally does. But it's just most importantly, just focus on ourselves, really, and make sure we do the business on Saturday and, you know, claw that gap back to the top of the league, which is a statement I don't think I'll be saying come February.
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Chapter 3: What challenges has Sheffield Wednesday faced recently?
But for us, it is coming from a place of we've got our own aspirations. There's a chance to get the goal difference up if you want to look at it this way too, because let's be real about it. And I know this will age like fine wine. I know this will end up being that we're going to come on Sunday and I'll be sitting there moping 1-0 defeat or something stupid. It wouldn't surprise me.
But for me, we've just got to go there and just get the job done like it keeps going, really. So that'll be my thing.
I think, yeah, I think exactly what you're saying. I think the problem you've got is on paper we should absolutely fucking be all over this, but you know the way Mill is, we'll probably end up losing this fucking 6-0 or something. Do you know what I mean? It's got one of those things written all over it and it's...
I'd run the marathon with no practice if we fucking lose 6-0 on Saturday, mate, all right? I'll kill myself doing the marathon if we lose 6-0. It's not happening. It's not. I'll run it naked as well because it's not happening. We're not losing 6-0 on Saturday.
Oh, my God.
You know that the Millwall players now are all going to sit there and watch this, right? And they're going, well, boys, do you want to laugh? No, I don't mean anything. It's not a month of Sundays when it happens. I think, yeah, that... You get what I'm saying, though.
It's one of those, isn't it, that we're so cocksure if we're going to go in there and smash it, that they are the games where we are too arrogant and it does scare the life out of you. We've been Millwall long enough that it does scare the life out of you. The games where you think you're easily going to piss are the games where you don't end up pissing it.
I don't feel I've ever been arrogant watching Millwall in my lifetime, but this is the first time, I think, ever, ever,
I always trust this to find a way to lose. But, I don't know. They have to win eventually. They have to. And if the fingers of Wednesday gets this sort of situation, they haven't scored in so long. If they go 1-0 up, who knows what will happen. They haven't scored in like a month. So, the place is just a rut. Yeah. And they'll probably have a good turnout. People turn up just to see Bannon.
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Chapter 4: Who are the danger players for Sheffield Wednesday?
Omar, your thoughts on it?
I'm a bit uneducated around this, though, so it's hard, right? If you turn around and say that they took the club from us, Millwall must have let it happen. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not trying to hang you out to dry here, but Millwall would have had a say in letting this happen. Not necessarily because they're running the club, but maybe the people that had control of the Lionesses.
So they, and it must've, there must've been some sort of decision at the time.
There was a company behind Millwall Lionesses, which is still now, which is still there called Millwall Lionesses, um, company or Millwall Lionesses, um, limited or whatever it was, right? That was, that was under Millwall owned, that had Millwall directors on there and everything else. Um,
For whatever reason, some people's lives were allegedly made a little bit miserable, a little bit hard work. So some of the directors who were Millwall-based started dropping off, and then the people who were involved, who were brought in, Diane Culligan and...
the manager Chris someone and a couple of people the Portuguese fella they then had control and they suddenly just stole the company from underneath Millwall didn't really fight for it I don't think Millwall wanted to give Diane money it was basically you play under our badge but we're not going to give you any money for it as such I think that was that's probably the easy answer but
You know, if you want to run it, then, you know, you fund it and find the money for it. We'll provide you a ground and whatnot, but you do all of this sort of stuff. Right, so wrongs of it. I don't know enough about it.
It's a difficult one. Yeah, it's a difficult one because I'm not going to pretend to know the first thing about what happened in 2018, 19, whatever it was. However, it does feel morally wrong to all the girls and the staff that volunteer for the Mill Lionesses to then allow this to happen. That's just my perspective on it.
I feel like it probably makes commercially sense that London City Lionesses are quite a booming club at the minute. I think they play at Hayes Lane. I remember they've sold out there once or twice and had 4,000 or 5,000 people there. This is a club that's got some real traction, has got itself to WSL. And they've also done it in a...
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