Wednesday!: The history of Sheffield's oldest professional football club

by Keith Farnsworth

At the time of its publication this was the first full-length official history of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club to appear for more than 50 years. It was written by a former Sheffield Morning Telegraph sports editor --as, coincidentally, was the previous history, A Romance of the Wednesday, written by Richard A Sparling in 1926.

285 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Left school at 15 with no qualifications, and worked in various positions, mainly clerical, before finally fulfilling his ambition to become a journalist when he joined the Sheffield Telegraph in the early 1960s. He later had a five-year spell as sports editor before quitting in the late 1970s to become editor of an industrial magazine (Quality). From 1985 until 2003 he worked as a freelance, mainly as a football writer for the Daily Telegraph, and published 17 books on football and other local subjects (company histories, biographies, etc). He also published an autobiography, A Sheffield Boy. He retired in 2003, and now devotes his time to reading, studying family history, and painting in watercolour or acrylics. He has compiled a Who WasWho of the Sheffield (Morning) Telegraph, having finished a task started by the late Peter Harvey.