Season 1999-00 - Sheffield Wednesday vs Wimbledon
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00:00Entertained Wimbledon at Hillsborough in early October 1999
00:04Wednesday had endured a miserable start to the Premiership season
00:07They were bottom of the league and in their last five games had conceded 15 goals without scoring once
00:13Wimbledon weren't faring much better and were in 16th place
00:16But did hold the edge in Premiership meetings between the two sides
00:20There was good news for Owes fans with skipper Peter Atherton fit again to start for the Yorkshire side
00:26Boss Danny Wilson made one other change to the team that had lost 1-0 away at Sunderland
00:31Dutch midfielder Wim Jonk started for the first time since August in place of Simon Donnelly
00:36Belgian striker Gilles De Bilde was still looking for his first Premiership goal
00:43Norwegian manager Egil Olsen hadn't enjoyed the best of starts to his Wimbledon career
00:48His team hadn't won since the opening day of the season against Watford
00:52Although they'd drawn their last three games they'd been ahead in all of them
00:55There were no changes to the team that had shared the spoils with Tottenham last time out
00:59Neil Sullivan was still looking for his first clean sheet of the season
01:05Paul Durkin was the man in charge
01:07Your match commentator is Jon Champion
01:11What next for Sheffield Wednesday
01:13Wimbledon today in their change colours of all red
01:17Wednesday trying to show some different colours
01:20One point from their nine matches so far in the English Premier League
01:26And only 13 days on from that 8-0 thumping at Newcastle
01:32They'd improved markedly in losing 1-0 at Sunderland at the Stadium of Light last weekend
01:37But their only point comes from a 1-1 draw at Bradford
01:41And they've scored just three goals in their nine matches so far
01:44And of those three
01:46One has been an own goal and another a penalty
01:50Gilles De Bilde's only goal in 11 games for the club
01:54Came in the League Cup against Stoke
01:57And they urgently need the new signings like De Bilde to start contributing
02:02Atherton with the throw
02:08It's a pretty sparse crowd inside Hillsborough
02:10Certainly less than 20,000
02:14John Anderson leaves it and Sullivan comes to claim
02:17It's a Rudy the Norwegian playing on the left side of Wednesday's midfield
02:29Walker's header
02:30And Rudy
02:31And then Jonk
02:32And finally Atherton
02:37Wimbledon's form hasn't been wildly impressive
02:39Just eight points from nine games they've drawn their last three matches
02:47Alexanderson
02:50That's a little more like it, at least some desire shown by Wednesday
02:54That was the widespread criticism after their embarrassment at St James' Park
02:58That they hadn't looked like they wanted to compete or to play that day
03:05Danny Wilson has pointed out that it is a prerequisite to play against Wimbledon
03:08That you have that burning desire
03:18Bags up
03:21The Wednesday band making plenty of healthy noise
03:27Keep their spirits up whatever
03:33Gilles De Bilde hasn't produced yet for the club, three million pounds he costs from PSV
03:47Rudy
03:53De Bilde
03:57That's good play
03:59And there's Jonk
04:01Would you believe it, Wednesday have scored
04:06And it's the Dutchman, Wim Jonk
04:14After five consecutive blanks
04:17Eight and three quarter hours without a league goal
04:23But Wim Jonk has put an end to that unwanted run
04:27And credit for the work of De Bilde in creating the chance
04:34Alexanderson
04:36Kenny Cunningham with an indeterminate clearance
04:40Here's Rudy
04:47De Bilde
04:49That's Sonner
04:51And Cunningham heads clear
04:56And it's Wimbledon who look like the side that have barely scored and only have one point
05:01A really ropey opening for them
05:10Rudy
05:17Cunningham
05:20Badia
05:26Hartson
05:30Here's Gale
05:33Oh and the deflection took it in
05:37Marcus Gale with the shot
05:42Cernichek
05:44Left confused and dumbfounded
05:47By the huge deflection
05:50Which I think came off Hartson
05:52May well be that Gale's got a battle on his hands
05:55To claim that goal
05:57Because for me it was going wide until it hit the Welshman
06:02What is for certain is that this game is now level again at 1-1
06:13Wimbledon haven't won a game since the opening day of the season
06:173-2 at Watford
06:18Eight games now without the taste of victory
06:24Best performance and best results
06:26That 1-1 draw at Old Trafford a couple of weeks ago when they led for so long through
06:30Walid Badia
06:37I think it would be fair to say that they're struggling to come to terms with the new managerial style imposed by Egil Olsen
06:48Foul
06:53It was
06:54Distinctly inelegant from Dean Blackwell
06:58More than that it was a foul
07:08Wim Jonk
07:11Thomas and Tom was a late arrival inside the Wimbledon area
07:15Not to any great effect
07:16Here's Jonk again
07:20De Builder, there was a slip
07:21Chance for De Builder
07:22And a goal
07:25Dean Blackwell fell over
07:29And Gilles De Builder has his first Premier League goal for Sheffield Wednesday
07:40Wimbledon contributed fully to it
07:44Blackwell's misfortune
07:46De Builder's joy
07:52Sheffield Wednesday's manager Danny Wilson has been keen to tell Ole and Sundre that De Builder is a class act
07:57His international record with Belgium suggests that
08:00Just that the Wednesday fans haven't seen it yet
08:06Alex Anderson
08:10Jonk
08:12De Builder
08:15Couldn't keep it down because of the pressure from Kenny Cunningham
08:21Wim Jonk is finding De Builder on a regular basis
08:26De Builder set up Jonk for the first
08:28Jonk
08:29Created the chance for De Builder to get the second
08:32And this time it was Jonk to De Builder
08:34And he couldn't keep the right footage shot down
08:42Badia
08:44Alex Anderson tracking back
08:48Off goes De Builder
08:49And up comes Sullivan
08:58Badia
09:02And a shot on the run
09:04By Jason Newell
09:06Was well off target
09:10At least Wimbledon have mustered an attack
09:13Apart from the goal
09:14Which came via a huge deflection off Hartson
09:17Not much to say for themselves going forward
09:25Rudy
09:33It's a Wednesday free kick
09:43Jonk
09:50Comes out to Sonner
09:54Alan Wiley the fourth official
09:56Says one extra minute and that's a good take by Sullivan
10:07Kimball
10:13It's been tough for Wimbledon
10:14They've lost Trond Anderson to injury
10:17For his hamstring to go today is
10:20Very unfortunate
10:21Because of the lack of cover that they have
10:22That's why Alan Kimball is having to slot in at right back
10:27It's having a knock-on effect on the rest of the team
10:43Hartson
10:47Gale
10:51Thatcher
10:54Roberts
10:56There's the
10:57Left footed right back Alan Kimball
11:01It's the end of the first half
11:02And Wednesday will go off delighted
11:03Because they've scored twice
11:06And they lead Wimbledon
11:07Two goals to one
11:13Much more hope around Hillsborough
11:16This afternoon given the opening
11:17To the game that Wednesday managed
11:21Need to regain some of that first half momentum
11:25Because victory is by no means safe
11:28Here's Roberts
11:31Nolan
11:37Alex Anderson
11:43Wimbledon
11:50Wimbledon have now gone 25 games
11:52Without keeping a clean sheet
11:55Twelve of them this season
11:56Thirteen last
11:58It's not a healthy record
12:06Something that the new manager
12:07Hasn't been able to address yet
12:10De Builder
12:13Alexanderson
12:15There's Booth
12:18Good chance for three
12:24Doesn't perhaps get the
12:25Weight of goals that a centre forward should
12:27Andy Booth
12:28He gets in some very promising positions though
12:35Danny Wilson
12:37That's what the feeling of relegation is like
12:39From his time with Barnsley
12:42Here's Rudy
12:48Kimble
12:50To switch it again onto that left foot
12:52Actually forced to pass with the right
12:54And look what happened
12:57And that's a foul
13:07De Builder
13:12He looks a different player today
13:14The shot shy individual who's laboured
13:16Through the opening weeks of the Premier League season
13:20Amazing what a goal can do
13:24What's just as encouraging for Wednesday
13:26Is the fact that he and Jonk
13:27Seem to be on the same wavelength
13:29Most of their better moments have involved
13:31Those two players
13:33Taking Jonk free kick
13:35Creating the chance for De Builder to have the shot on goal
13:42Danny Wilson has kept faith
13:47Walker
14:02Kimble waiting for the ball
14:04De Builder is in more of a hurry
14:06Jonk
14:21Sonner
14:24Nolan
14:28This is good from Wednesday
14:30It's Alex Anderson
14:33Thatcher will clear the ball
14:36Marta Sullivan had made the block to deny the Swede
14:43Just how easily Sheffield Wednesday are getting through
14:50For both these clubs League Cup duty is next
14:52Sheffield Wednesday have Nottingham Forest visiting here
14:56Wimbledon play Sunderland in the third round
15:00And then in Premier League terms
15:01Wednesday's next engagement is a visit to Leeds
15:05Here's Petr Rudik
15:07Can he make it three?
15:08Oh he can
15:11With his weaker foot too
15:23And suddenly Sheffield Wednesday look like a football team again
15:27Much more cohesive unit
15:32And they're being directed on the pitch at least by Wim Jonk
15:37Who's had a hand to play in all three goals
15:43Rudi
15:45Finding the angle across the keeper
15:50Yule
15:52Yule
15:59Des Walker
16:03Sheffield Wednesday have now doubled their tally of Premier League goals for the season
16:06In the course of just a little more than an hour
16:09And here's De Builder looking for another
16:11De Builder
16:19Would that Sheffield Wednesday could play Wimbledon every week
16:31Thatcher
16:37Here's Earle
16:42Thatcher's cross
16:44Barely worthy of that description
16:50Majored on the woes of Wednesday
16:54But the travails of Wimbledon
16:55Need to be focused upon as well
16:59They don't look a happy bunch under Egil Olsen
17:02So much attention has been focused on
17:05His idiosyncrasies
17:07The fact that he's a Marxist that he wears wellies when he's
17:10Watching his team play football
17:12The bare fact state that Wimbledon have won only once
17:15Under his management
17:20Cunningham
17:28That by Cernichek
17:30Not particularly well
17:33Kalkort
17:38And Rudi has it back for Wednesday
17:41De Builder
17:45He's outpaced Blackwell
17:48Blackwell's done well but not well enough
17:54De Builder second and Sheffield Wednesday have scored four
18:01And at long last
18:04The followers of Wednesday can look forward to a Premier League win
18:07Danny Wilson can barely suppress a smile
18:11He must feel that
18:14He has found a striker of some worth
18:19Even if it's taken far too long for De Builder to show precisely
18:22What he's made of
18:25Surely there'll be sterner tests ahead than this
18:41Gilles De Builder with two
18:45Has three for the season
18:52Activity down on the bench Simon Donnelly
18:56Is being prepared and Alan Wiley
18:59Called in for a conversation by Paul Durkin
19:03Before we get the game underway again
19:04There was some concern on the referee's part at the amount of time
19:10That Wednesday were taking to get Donnelly ready
19:15Ian Nolan
19:28We want five is the chance
19:35Alex Anderson
19:48It's Wednesday showing the sort of desire more normally associated with their visitors
19:54Gale
20:05Here comes the Wednesday change
20:08Frank Barlow the assistant having
20:11Final few words with Simon Donnelly the former Celtic man
20:14Who's going to replace Danny Sonner
20:31As a former
20:32Midfield man himself here
20:34Danny Wilson
20:35Will have appreciated the shift of work that Sonner's put in
20:55Wimbledon's record is going to read one win five draws and four defeats
21:00In just a couple of minutes time when the final whistle goes
21:05On Wednesday at last will be able to register in the wins column in the English Premier League this season
21:11At the tenth attempt
21:18Walker
21:23As they try to play their way out from the back with Booth
21:25And now Rudy
21:30Here's Alex Anderson
21:37De Builda
21:44Not too far away from a hat-trick
21:50There's a smile back on those Wednesday faces
21:53Andy Booth
21:57Andy Booth is being replaced
22:00In the last few moments of this game
22:04By the Dutchman Gerald Sibon
22:13Another of those recruited supposedly to take Wednesday to the next level by Danny Wilson
22:19At least they found a level
22:23Wimbledon
22:33Whistler's gone
22:37And here comes Alan Wiley
22:39To signify the amount of additional time to be played
22:45His moment in the spotlight and he's enjoying it
22:50Thatcher
22:54Rudy
23:08Well it has got to the stage where Wednesday were approaching
23:11Every fixture with a degree of fear about what lay in store
23:16The worries like that will be banished by today's performance
23:20And the result
23:24And it may well be that they'll look back on this particular Saturday afternoon at Hillsborough
23:38As a turning point in their season
23:47De Builda
23:51Jonk
23:53Oh and Sibon
24:00Wednesday have completed a nap hand
24:08Everything is coming together
24:11About nine matches too late
24:16But it is only enough in the season that they can still put a run together
24:20That can lift them out of trouble
24:22And that's got to be their hope off the back of this
24:25Jonk has been involved in four of their five goals now
24:38Quality performer on the World Cup stage Wim Jonk
24:41Setting up the final goal for Gerald Sibon
24:45And to a resounding cheer
24:47The final whistle goes
24:49Sheffield Wednesday 5
24:51Wimbledon 1
24:53Wednesday's season starts here
24:56All smiles on the day
24:58But despite that impressive win
24:59Sheffield Wednesday never recovered from their dreadful start to the season
25:03Danny Wilson was sacked
25:04But Peter Shreves could only manage two wins in his nine games
25:08And the Owls finished in 19th place on 31 points
25:12Wimbledon's Norwegian experiment proved disastrous
25:15Egil Olsen was sacked prior to their final two games
25:18But it was already too late
25:20Bradford's final day defeat of Liverpool meant the Dons were relegated