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Sheffield Wednesday fans promise to be back at 5 O'clock, after the match with QPR, to continue their protests following the boards' decision to sack popular manager Paul Sturrock. filmed and archived here for posterity by DeeJayOne

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who are competing in the Football League Championship, the second tier of the English Football League System. Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world and the third oldest in the English league. They won the second football competition ever held, the Cromwell Cup, which remains in their possession. The Wednesday, as they were named until 1929, were founding members of The Football Alliance in 1889, and its first champions that inaugural season. The Wednesday joined The Football League three years later when the leagues merged. Sheffield Wednesday were also one of the founding members of The Premier League in 1992.

Their main rivals are Sheffield United, the two clubs having contested the Steel City derby on a regular basis for some 100 years. Barnsley, Leeds United, Rotherham United, Chesterfield and Doncaster Rovers are also local rivals. The club has spent the majority of its history in the top flight of English football since joining the Football League in 1892 under the name of The Wednesday Football Club. They have won four League titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup, but their League Cup triumph in 1991 is their only major trophy since 1935. They did reach both domestic cup finals in 1993, but lost 2--1 to Arsenal at Wembley on both occasions. They also lost the 1966 FA Cup final to Everton 3--2, having led 2--0.

They play their home matches at Hillsborough Stadium in the north-western suburb of Owlerton from which the club gained its nickname, The Owls. The stadium was built in 1899 when the lease expired at the club's previous ground of Olive Grove. The Hillsborough stadium is currently an all-seater ground with a capacity of 39,732.

Famous Sheffield Wednesday supporters:
- All four members of Arctic Monkeys -- Sheffield rock band
- Joe Ashton OBE -- politician
- David Blunkett -- former Home Secretary
- Gary Cahill -- professional footballer, currently playing for Chelsea FC and internationally for the England national football team
- Paul Carrack -- member of several bands including Ace, Squeeze, Mike + The Mechanics, and Roxy Music
- Sebastian Coe -- English former athlete and politician, chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Supported the club while growing up in Sheffield
- Jarvis Cocker -- lead singer of Pulp
- Rivers Cuomo -- lead singer of rock band Weezer, who was first taken to a Wednesday game during a UK tour.
- Roy Hattersley -- former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, who once proclaimed "When socialists fall out, it is the Tories that rejoice. When Sheffield Wednesday supporters fall out, the Gods weep."
- Richard Hawley -- musician
- Katy Livingston -- Olympic modern pentathlete
- Nick Matthew -- 3x World squash champion
- Jon McClure -- lead singer of Reverend and the Makers
- Johnny Nelson -- champion boxer
- Michael Palin -- comedy actor, writer and TV presenter, a supporter of both Sheffield sides who mentions his love of the Owls several times during his travel documentaries; shouting 'Sheffield Wednesday!' when lifting a trophy in Venice during his Pole to Pole journey in 1991, and recalls the 1991 League Cup win as his best moment in football.
- Rick Savage -- member of Def Leppard
- Michael Vaughan -- former England cricket captain, who famously declared early during an England test match so he could get to Wednesday's 2005 play-off final Vaughan is also know for owning a Sheffield United season ticket during their 2006/7 Premier League Campaign.
- Martyn Ware -- member of Heaven 17 & The Human League.
- Jonny Greenwood -- Radiohead guitarist, who can be seen with a "Wednesday, Til I Die" sticker on his back up guitar.

Supporters' groups include Wednesdayite, an independent football supporters' organisation that owned over 10% of the shares in SWFC before the 2010 sale of the club, and The London Owls, an active supporters' club for Wednesday fans living in London and South East England.