By Gareth Vincent, BBC Sport Wales SWANSEA City claimed a deserved victory at Hillsborough as goals from Zan Vipotnik and Ronald ensured Sheffield Wednesday remained without a league win this season. Vipotnik put speculation over his future to one side as he struck for the third time in as many games in all competitions
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Owls fans hold funeral protest at ‘death of club’
By Lucy Ashton, BBC EMOTIONAL Sheffield Wednesday supporters have held a mock funeral procession with a coffin to symbolise “the death of the football club”. Protesters with banners, whistles and flares wound their way through Hillsborough Park ahead of the Owls’ match against Stoke City with the latter scoring a comfortable 3-0 victory. Fans
Read more‘Sell up, you plonker’ – how Sheff Wed fans united against owner
By Nick Mashiter BBC Sport football news reporter at King Power Stadium AS SHEFFIELD Wednesday fans sang outside Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, a plane circled overhead. Behind it was a banner with the message “Dejpon Chansiri Out”. Inside, another banner had already been laid across empty seats, urging the owner to sell. Wednesday
Read moreOwls tipped as first Championship side to be relegated
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have been forecast as the first Championship side to be relegated at the end of the upcoming season primarily due to the Thai-owned football club’s unresolved financial crisis and ownership fiasco, according to an English football pundit. Benjamin Bloom has predicted on his YouTube channel that the Owls
Read morePoker recognised as an official sport in Thailand
THE Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) officially accepted poker as a sport at its meeting today (July 23) with this expected to help draw revenue to the country through holding competitions at both regional and global levels, Naewna and The Standard newspapers said. The SAT meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit and
Read moreAnalysis: Super subs save the day again as England go through to Women’s Euro 2025 final
By Reuters and published by CNA Geneva – Just when England’s reign as women’s European champions appeared to be coming to an end, their bench cavalry rode to the rescue once more as substitutes Michelle Agyemang and Chloe Kelly got the goals that put them into the Euro 2025 final. Trailing 1-0 deep into
Read more‘Historic’ football regulator bill becomes law – what it means for fans
By BBC FOOTBALL FANS have hailed a “historic moment” for English football after a bill to establish an independent football regulator became law. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the bill was a “proud and defining moment for English football” and will usher in a “stronger, fairer future” for the game. “This is an
Read moreDejpon scrambles to sell the Owls as new Championship season looms
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY owner Dejpon Chansiri is desperately looking for ways and means to promptly sell the debt-ridden Championship side to a potential buyer after negotiations with a couple of others had recently stalled, if not entirely fallen through. The Thai owner has repeatedly assured his unfaltering intent to sell off
Read moreJamie Vardy draws interest from Foxes’ Rrval clubs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A TRIO OF ENGLISH football clubs are vying to sign Leicester City legend Jamie Vardy for next season following relegation of the Foxes from the Premier League in the current season. Wolverhampton Wanderers, a club in the top tier of the English football system, Wrexham, a newly-promoted Championship side, and
Read moreLee Carsley tops shortlist for new Foxes manager
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER ENGLAND NATIONAL manager Lee Carsley has emerged as a top favourite to become Leicester City manager in place of Ruud van Nistelrooy who would probably part company with the Foxes upon the end of the 2024/2025 season next month. Leicester owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has already been given a shortlist
Read moreLeicester City relegated from Premier League again
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEICESTER CITY have been literally relegated from the Premier League with last night’s home game gone kaput, completely shattering their flimsy hope of survival in the top tier of the English football system, and with the remaining matches of the ending 2024/2025 season being utterly meaningless to the Thai-owned Foxes.
Read moreFoxes very likely to be relegated again
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE THAI-OWNED LEICESTER City are obviously limping on the verge of relegation from the Premier League to the Championship, the top and second tiers of the English football system respectively, upon the end of the 2024/2025 season next month. Ranked at 19th on the 20-team table of the Premier League
Read moreApril Fools’ Day: Owls fans’ novel revolt against Thai owner?
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
Read moreVan Nistelrooy given uphill task of rescuing poorly-performing Foxes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER MANCHESTER UNITED striker/now Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy has been unavoidably assigned painstaking tasks of salvaging the Foxes from the probability of relegation at the end of 2024/2025 season. Now that Leicester have embarrassedly slipped into the relegation zone after an away defeat to Liverpool in Thursday’s Boxing
Read moreDejpon praised for clearing Sheffield Wednesday’s debt
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEJPON CHANSIRI, the Thai owner of Sheffield Wednesday football club, has begun to win praise and support from local fans whilst desperately seeking co-investment for the English Championship side. Until recently, Dejpon had been viewed by those fans as an “utterly unfit” owner of the Owls and intermittently encountered “Chansiri
Read moreSpain beat England to win Euro 2024 with late Oyarzabal strike
By Reuters and published by CNA Berlin – Spain substitute Mikel Oyarzabal scored four minutes from time to give his side a deserved 2-1 Euro 2024 final victory over England on Sunday (July 14) and a record fourth European crown, as Gareth Southgate’s team lost in their second successive final. Oyarzabal finished off a
Read moreOver 1,700 held for betting on Euro 2024 football matches
WITH the European Football Championship now in full swing, police are going all out to suppress gambling on the outcome of matches with more than 1,700 punters arrested over seven days, Naewna newspaper said this evening (June 21). Pol. Lt. Gen. Akradej Pimolsri, assistant national police chief, said continuous action is being taken to
Read moreThousands of gambling websites shut as Euro 2024 kicks off today
By TV Channel 7 and AP – published by Yahoo!News CYBER CRIME police have been busy tackling widespread online betting on UEFA Euro 2024 football matches with the tournament kicking off in Munich, Germany, today (June 14) and have shut as many as 8,000 gambling websites this month alone, TV Channel 7 said late
Read moreThai punters will likely bet 67 billion baht on Euro 2024 football matches
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ESTIMATED 67 BILLION baht in betting stake is forecast to circulate among gamblers nationwide during the upcoming UEFA Euro 2024 football championship. The University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce’s Centre for Business & Economic Forecasting Director Thanawat Polvichai announced today (June 10) some 67.04 billion baht in cash
Read moreEx-Manchester United manager latest favourite to be Leicester boss
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER, a former manager of English Premier League football club Manchester United, has emerged as the latest favourite to take the helm of the newly-promoted, Thai-owned football club Leicester City. The Norwegian international player who had earlier performed as a Manchester United striker and then as a Red
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