Sheffield Wednesday fans share their favourite memories against Sheffield United
As Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United are set to go head-to-head in competitive league games once again, The Star asked Wednesdayites at the Owls in the Park event for their favourite Steel City Derby memories.
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00:00Obviously, there haven't been many in recent years, but from your own memory and stuff like that, what's been your favourite Steel City derby?
00:06My favourite Steel City derby? So when Chris O'Grady fired that header in, back in February 2012 when we went up from League One,
00:13we went up second that year, and there was the defining moment from that season when we were playing Wycombe on the final day,
00:19and there was, you know the old shhh-tee on the scoreboard? That came up, what was it? X to 1, Sheffield United 0,
00:27and everybody cheered as though we'd scored, and that was it then. We went up and they went out in the playoffs.
00:32For mine personally, it would be when the promotion season, when we were both going for promotion from League One,
00:38I think at the time we were six points behind, they had two games in hand, we played them at Hillsborough and beat them 1-0,
00:44and I think that was the turning point really for the season, because obviously they then lost Chet Evans, who scored a lot of goals for them,
00:49and we managed to pip them on the last game of the season, so that will always be a standout for me, I think.
00:55I think it's got to be the double in the late noughties, where Marcus Trujillo scored those goals, he was one of my favourite players at the time,
01:03and I think I've just got a lot of fond memories from my younger days, like when I was in uni, seeing those games on TV,
01:09you know the highlights of the league, and yeah, so definitely those games, I thought it was a really good period for anyone.