Brian Lara received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 10 January 2007.

Examples of other UK football fanzines include A Love Supreme, TOOFIF, 4000 Holes and War of the Monster Trucks ( a Sheffield Wednesday fanzine named after a local TV station elected not to show the final scenes of an unlikely cup victory ).

* September 4 – The Sheffield Wednesday F. C.

* April 27 – FA Cup Sheffield Wednesday beat West Bromwich Albion 4 – 2 at Wembley

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a professional football club based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

The deciding goal was scored by the then newly formed team called The Wednesday, now known as Sheffield Wednesday.

In 1989, Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, the home of Sheffield Wednesday, was selected by the Football Association as a neutral venue to host the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs.

In a post-match briefing to discuss the incident, Sheffield Wednesday chairman Bert McGee remarked: " Bollocks – no one would have been killed ".

The events prompted Sheffield Wednesday to alter the layout at the Leppings Lane end, dividing the terrace into three separate pens to restrict sideways movement.

Robson made his debut in 1950 for Fulham, recently promoted to the First Division, in a match against Sheffield Wednesday.

* Paul Smith ( footballer born 22 January 1976 ) ( born 1976 ), former Burnley, Hartlepool United and Sheffield Wednesday midfielder, currently with Sheffield F. C.

The Sanderson Group PLC took up the mantle, for four years from 1995, also sponsoring Sheffield Wednesday at the same time.

( at Sheffield Wednesday until 2 January 2013 )

In 1962 – 63, his second season in charge, Everton won the League title and in 1966 the FA Cup followed with a 3 – 2 win over Sheffield Wednesday.

* Gordon Watson-Former Sheffield Wednesday footballer was born in Sidcup.

In 1990, Sociedad signed another English league striker, Dalian Atkinson of Sheffield Wednesday, who therefore became the club's first black player.

Hillsborough Stadium ( commonly called just Hillsborough ) is a sporting venue in Sheffield, England, which is owned by and stages the home games of Sheffield Wednesday, as well as boasting a range of function rooms, and suites, which can be hired out for events.

The stadium was known as Owlerton until becoming Hillsborough in 1914 following ground improvements – hence the fact that Sheffield Wednesday are commonly known as the Owls.

During the 1898 – 99 season Sheffield Wednesday were told that the land rented at Olive Grove would be needed for railway expansions.

The match was kicked off by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield William Clegg, himself a former Wednesday player.

It came as a shock to many when the Conservatives won a majority, but the perceived triumphalism of a Labour party rally in Sheffield ( together with Kinnock's performance on the podium ) may have helped

On another occasion, he altered the date of a Gloucestershire match so that he could travel to Sheffield and take part in a Yorkshire player's benefit match, knowing full well the impact that his appearance would have on the gate.

There are multiple variations of the story and, although some sources have recorded that the incident happened in a Test match, there is little doubt that the game in question was the tour opener at Sheffield Park.

) At its greatest the kingdom extended at least from just south of the Humber, to the River Mersey and to the Forth ( roughly, Sheffield to Runcorn to Edinburgh ) — and there is some evidence that it may have been much greater ( see map ).

In 1921, Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, examined the Piltdown and Sheffield Park finds and declared that the jaw and skull belonged together " without question " and that the Sheffield Park fragments " were exactly those which we should have selected to confirm the comparison with the original type.

The Sheffield Park finds were taken as proof of the authenticity of the Piltdown Man ; it may have been chance that brought an ape's jaw and a human skull together, but the odds of it happening twice were slim.

As British historian Gary Sheffield said, " The battle of the Somme was not a victory in itself, but without it the Entente would not have emerged victorious in 1918 ".

Dr Allan Pacey ( senior lecturer in andrology at Sheffield University and secretary of the British Fertility Society ) notes that men who he sees for a vasectomy reversal which has not worked, express wishing they knew they could have stored sperm.

Holmfirth used to have its own branch line, off the Huddersfield to Sheffield line ( commonly referred to as the Penistone Line ), this short, 2 mile ( 3 km ), line branched from the mainline just south of the village Brockholes.

The NE and S codes have been re-used in the national postcode system and now refer to the NE postcode area around Newcastle upon Tyne and the S postcode area around Sheffield.

The once-successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and most of the employees have been laid off.

Plans by the club for a £ 22 million renovation of the stadium and expansion to 44, 825 have been approved by Sheffield City Council Planning Department with an aim to hosting FIFA World Cup 2018 matches.

Alterations done early in his career may have included Tanton Hall, Sheffield Park, Frimley, and Teston Hall, though these homes have since been altered and it is difficult now to isolate Latrobe's work in the current designs.

This echoed his attacks on Major's government which he had made before the 1992 election while still shadow chancellor, most memorably when he attacked Tory plans for cutting income tax to 20 % as " irresponsible " and joked at a Labour Party rally in Sheffield that the Tories would have a box office disaster with " Honey, I Shrunk the Economy "-in reference to the recent Disney motion picture Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-mocking the recession which was plaguing the British economy at the time.

In the past notable centres have included The Basement in Manchester, Justice not crisis in Birmingham, The PAD in Cardiff, Next To Nowhere in Liverpool, Forest Café in Edinburgh, Giros in Belfast, Matilda Centre in Sheffield and the Common Place in Leeds.

Sheffield Park has been restored to a Victorian ambience, as it would have appeared during the time of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( up to 1922 ); Horsted Keynes emulates the Southern Railway ( 1922 – 1948 ); and Kingscote echoes the British Railways of the 1950s.

Over the years Sheffield Wednesday have had several Owl themed matchday mascots.

Since 1899 Wednesday have played their home games at Hillsborough Stadium in the Owlerton district of Sheffield.

Sheffield Wednesday have had a large variety of fanzines over the years ; examples include Just Another Wednesday, Out of the Blue, Spitting Feathers, Boddle, A View From The East Bank, Cheat!

The best known example of deck-access flats in the UK is Park Hill, Sheffield, where the decks are wide enough to allow electric vehicles ; however, the design is inspired by French Modernist architect Le Corbusier, particularly his Unite D ' Habitation in Marseilles.

* Sheffield & Hallamshire FA expands over the wide area, stretching into West Yorkshire to include teams from South Elmsall and Nostell and into Nottinghamshire to include teams from Worksop.

Sheffield pattern blades are not quite as wide as the Black design but most variations carry a false-edged clip point.

Historically, one of the first tie-breaking procedures was contained in the Sheffield Rules between 1862 and 1871, with the concept of the rouge, scorable when the ball went narrowly wide of the goal.

Sheffield plate is a layered combination of silver and copper that was used for many years to produce a wide range of household articles.

Now in its 21st year, the Off the Shelf Festival of Words is an annual event offering excellent quality, exciting, wide ranging and innovative programming and attracting some of the most prestigious names in literature and media to Sheffield.