Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.

Points, deductions, administration, potential new owners and even the sale of golden elephant statues.

If those issues affected one club in the course of an entire season, most fans would despair.

But that is just a week in the

life of a Sheffield Wednesday fan. This is a special EFL extra podcast taking a look at a huge week

for the championship club, outlining how it came to this, what's happening at the club now and what

lies ahead in the days and weeks to come. I'm Tom Clark, and joining me for this show, we have

the journalist who has been all over this story in the past week, covering the news of administration on Friday and writing in-depth on the situation at the club now. He also happens to be a Sheffield Wednesday fan. Paul Hurst, welcome back to the game quite a couple of days. Yeah, I'm not really sure I should be doing this. I should be having to lie down.

It's been...

Treat it as therapy, mate. This is... Free off your chest, come on. Yeah. This is, you know, we've had a lot of listeners get in touch saying, Tom, you've got to cover the situation at Sheff at Wednesday. So we're doing this for them, but we're also doing this for you just to get a few ideas and thoughts off your chest.

Should we only share as long, should I?

Yes, probably, probably.

Yeah, it's been a really... for you just to get a few ideas and throw us off your chest. Should we only shades long, should I?

Yeah.

Yes, probably, probably.

Yeah, it's been a really hectic few days.

It started off with the club finally being placed into administration by Dejfond Chanceri last

Friday morning.

It seemed forever that he wouldn't sell,

despite the protests against him,

that he wouldn't sell the club,

despite having no money or the period to have no money

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