One, erm, highlight and one lowlight from Sheffield Wednesday's capitulation in the capital
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The Owls surrendered to a painful 5-0 defeat that boss Garry Monk described as the most embarrassing afternoon of his managerial career.
Our man Alex Miller was tasked with narrowing the action down to one highlight and one lowlight. Here’s what he came up with..
Highlight
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Hide AdBrentford’s Griffin Park is a traditional old football stadium carved out from stories your old man used to tell you about when football was better.
Jovial staff, standing terraces and tightly-constructed stands that back directly onto the gardens of houses contribute to a cuddly feeling of nostalgia.
The Bees’ ongoing mission to evolve into a Premier League club rests in part on the financial advances that their new stadium will provide. Their move is an inevitable by-product of their success, but it does deliver a pang of sadness. But Griffin Park was a joy to visit.
Absolutely none of that is any way relevant to Sheffield Wednesday of course, but it did allow The Star to fulfil the word count for this particular section of coverage. There wasn’t a highlight.
Lowlight
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Hide AdPlenty to choose from here, but perhaps the most damning moment was in the moments after Brentford’s fourth goal, when thousands of Wednesday fans decided their afternoon would be better spent in the public houses of London than watching any more of their team.
Worse still was the moment that the home fans showed their sympathy for their Owls comrades and joined in with choruses of “You’re not to fit to wear the shirt”.
Garry Monk apologised unreservedly to the club’s travelling supporters and said the afternoon was the most embarrassed he has ever felt in football. You can see why.
It was a horrible accumulation of low moments for a fanbase that deserve better.