April 26, saw the latest in a long line of protests that have been held by various different supporters’ groups against the current owner Dejphon Chansiri.
The ‘tuna tycoon’ has been accused of continually mismanaging the club after their failure to reach the promised land that is the Premier League back in 2016, losing to fellow Yorkshire side Hull City in the Championship playoff final.
Since their recent failures to reach the Premier League under the strict command of Mr Chansiri, the Owls have since been put through embargoes and a 12-point deduction which saw their Championship tenure end as they slipped into League One.
Sheffield Wednesday’s fortunes seemed to have changed after securing promotion back to the Championship after a two year wait and fans were hopeful that they now could look forward to the future.
But Chansiri has failed to address the fans concerns about the direction in which the club is taking and repeatedly accused the fans of trying to sabotage the club. The relationship between Chansiri and the fans have hit an all-time low and now they call for him to ‘sell up and go.’
A SWFC Trust board member, Mark Johnson feels that his time has come and its time to give someone else a go at taking the club forward,
“Mr Chansiri has been apart of the club for the past ten years and frankly the club is going nowhere under his leadership. He clearly doesn’t have the money to run the club, we don’t know why he’s here and we don’t want him here, 95 per cent of the fans want him gone.
“We want him to sell the club and give someone who wants to run the club a chance to take it forward.” Mark explained.
The protest began outside the Crucible Theatre, where the Adelphi Hotel once stood and where Wednesday was formed as a football club, they then marched along Penistone Road before turning up through central Hillsborough to the top end of the park which sits on the border of Hillsborough Stadium.
Around 1,000 fans turned up to march through the park chanting, “Get out of our club.” We want our Wednesday back.” And “Take your tuna and F**k off home.” The protest ended outside the South Stand but the protests continued inside the ground with fans holding up black and yellow leaflets and setting off yellow balloons ahead of kick off.
