A different Wednesday player every day

No 809 - John Sissons. An England youth player who joined #SWFC from West Ham in 1970 for £60k. He would score 15 goals in 126 games before a transfer to Norwich in 1974. He went on to play for Chelsea, Tampa Bay Rowdies and Cape Town City.

No. 42 - Paulo Di Canio. The crazy Italian came to English football with #swfc from Celtic for around £4M. A scorer of great goals (17 in 48 games) his push on a referee led to his cut price sale to West Ham and is said by many to be the tipping point in Wednesdays decline

No 150 - James Quinn. 50 times capped Northern Irish striker had 19 game loan spell, scoring 2, from Dutch club Willem II in 2005. Previously of Bristol Rovers Stockport Notts County and West Brom he is remembered at #swfc for the last minute goal at Hull to seal a play off place

No 149 - Rob Jones. Towering central defender Jones signed permanently for #swfc in May 2011 after a short loan from Scunthorpe. He played 45 games and scored 5 goals and was club captain in our 2012 promotion season. He was allowed to join Doncaster on a free after 1 season

No 148 - Steve Harkness. Signed for #swfc for £200k from Blackburn in Sept 2000 at the twilight of his career. The defender scored one goal in 32 games before being released in Nov 2002. He had previously played for Liverpool, Huddersfield, Southend, Carlisle and Benfica

No 147 - Steve Nicol. 27 cap Scottish right back signed for #swfc in 1996 from Notts County, who he joined after a long spell at Liverpool. He played 54 games before joining Doncaster after a loan spell with West Brom. He managed in the USA with New England Revolution until 2011

No 146 - Earl Barrett. 3 times capped Man City trainee ended his career at #swfc with 16 appearances between 1998 and 2000, following a career that had taken in transfers to Oldham, Everton, Aston Villa and loans with Chester and our neighbours.

No 145 - Klas Ingesson. 57 cap Swedish international midfielder Ingesson signed for £800k from Bari in 1994. He only played 21 #swfc games, scoring twice before joining PSV Eindhoven. The ex-Lecce, Marseille, Bologna, Mechelen and IFK Goteburg man sadly passed away in 2014.

No 143 - Imre Varadi - The striker had two spells at #swfc after joining from Newcastle. In his two spells, separated by West Brom and Man City, he scored 46 goals in 121 games. He ended his 2nd spell joining Leeds in 1990. His career ended in 1997 at South Jersey Barons, USA.

No 142 - Akpo Sodje. The striker was signed from Port Vale Aug 07. Able to put in some strong displays when fit he sadly was beset by injuries and played just 44 #swfc games, scoring 9 before release in 2010. He finished his career on loan at Macclesfield from Tranmere in 2014

No 141 - Callum Mcmanaman. @cm_macca played 12 games on loan at #swfc from West Brom in 2017 to assist in our play off push. The winger barely started a game under Carlos. Beginning his career at Wigan he also represented Blackpool, Sunderland and Luton in England.

No 140 - Mick Prendergast. The Mexborough born striker made his #swfc debut in 1969 and went on to score 53 in 183 league games for the owls. Sadly he struggled with injuries and was transferred to Barnsley in 1978, but lasted just 1 season. He sadly died in 2010 aged just 59.

No 139 - Larry May. Beginning his career at Leicester in 1976, May joined #swfc towards the end of his career for the 1987/88 season. Signed from Barnsley but in 31 appearances he didn’t impress at the owls and joined Brighton in 1988.

No 138 - Redfern Froggatt. Playing as a winger/striker Froggatt spent his entire career with #swfc and is still our post war record scorer with 149 goals in 498 games, in a career from 1945 to 1960. He won 4 @England caps, scoring twice. He sadly passed away in 2003! Legend.

No 137 - Jimmy Mullen. Defender Mullen began his career at #swfc and captained the side to promotion in 79/80. He joined Rotherham in 1980 after 229 games and 10 owls goals. After playing for Preston Cardiff & Newport he went into management with Cardiff and most recently Walsall

No 136 - Wilf Smith. Born Schmidt in Germany his family moved to England and he signed pro for #swfc in 1963. The fullback played over 206 games, scoring four goals before joining Coventry in 1970. He had spells at Brighton, Millwall, Bristol Rovers and finished at Chesterfield.

No 135 - Gerry Young. Young was a striker turned defender who spent his entire professional career at #swfc amassing 345 games, scoring 20 goals including an intercity fairs cup hattrick against Roma, from 1955 to 1971. An FA Cup finalist in 1966 he sadly passed away in Sept 2020

No 134 - Scott Carson. The current Man City 3rd keeper joined #swfc in 2006 for a 9 game loan spell from Liverpool as we battled relegation. He is best remembered by most for a mistake that cost England Euro 2008 qualification, in one of his 4 international caps.