By Thai Newsroom Reporters
SOME SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY fans are coming up with a novel task of telling Thai people in this country and elsewhere, either via conventional or social media, how devastatingly Dejpon Chansiri, the Thai owner of the Championship football club, has allegedly fared so far.
Whilst Dejpon continues to take the helm of the Owls with his nonchalant, penny-pinching sentiment despite sustained pressure from Owls fans and supporters who have been desperately anticipating a major shake-up sooner than later, the painstaking challenge of literally putting him to blame and shame has been more or less contemplated amongst some of the strongly resolute, anti-Chansiri protesters.
Some have innovatively suggested an army of sports reporters from Thailand be “invited” to visit Hillsborough stadium to see how poorly Dejpon has been allegedly performing at the cost of his Owls. The unprecedented advice has come from the ones who could probably be more than willing to do anything other than to pay for air tickets for those Thai sportscasters to travel from Bangkok to the South Yorkshire city in England and back, among other expenses on their accommodations.
“It’s about time the Thais found out how devastatingly, disgracefully Chansiri has been running our historic club.
“Since the last few years, Chansiri has never been welcomed by most of the Owls fans and supporters over here and he will no longer be,” one of the strongly resolute Owls fans put it.
Considerably pressed by those Owls protesters to sell off his club notwithstanding, Dejpon may have been quirkily content with its current status in the Championship, the second tier of the English football system.
Though many of the Thai people anywhere may already know Leicester City are a Thai-owned football club in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football system, with the probability of being relegated to the second tier at the end of the 2024/2025 season, only few may know that Sheffield Wednesday are the other Thai-owned club, albeit in a different tier, besides the Foxes.
T-shirts saying “Chansiri Out” in front have been produced but obviously failed to sell like hot cakes among Owls fans and supporters whilst Dejpon was said to simply turn blind eye to those who may wear them and mingle with the crowds at Hillsborough week in, week out.
Led by the 1867 Group, thousands of regular Owls fans, adolescent and elderly alike, have taken to the streets around Hillsborough and raided the stadium to air their embarrassment and displeasure at the way Dejpon has been handling Sheffield Wednesday especially in regard to the yet-ungiven money to spend on the planned strengthening of the Owls squad.
The anti-Chansiri protests which have literally taken place nearly on a weekly basis obviously focus on the Thai owner’s nonchalant, penny-pinching, happy-go-lucky attitudes toward the Championship side who are currently standing in the middle of the table with their safety from relegation being solidly assured and yet their chances for a playoff to get promoted to the Premier League being fairly a far cry.
That Dejpon had bluntly rejected Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl’s repeated calls for substantial funding to buy outstanding players from among fellow Championship sides and even from Premier League clubs to add power and talent to the injury-stricken, current squad has virtually rubbed salt into wound, prompting the German to be more inclined to leave the Owls than ever before.
Since Rohl was reportedly approached by Southampton, one of a trio of Premier League clubs with most likelihood of being relegated to the Championship at the end of the 2024/2025 season, to manage the Saints from next season, Dejpon has been invariably accused of throwing caution to the wind over his club’s plans and schemes, either with or without the current Owls manager.
“Thirapong Chansiri, an elder brother of Dejpon’s, may have originally made the right decision by giving him 37.5 million pounds to buy Sheffield Wednesday a decade ago or else his Thai frozen food industry would have been sheerly ruined by this younger brother,” said another Owls fan in reference to the CEO of Thai Union Group, the world’s largest canned tuna manufacturer.
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Sheffield Wednesday’s Thai owner Dejpon Chansiri. Top photo: BBC, Front Page photo: Sky News
Insert: A protest poster against Dejpon Chansiri. Photo: Football League World
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