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 a wide range of chants which can be heard on match days, and have also had songs published on CD and Records.

On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.

Benjamin Huntsman, a clockmaker from Sheffield, had pioneered a process to make crucible steel in 1740, but the British had managed to keep it secret, forcing others to import steel.

The narrator points out that the entire peacetime resources of the National Health Service, had they survived, would be unable to cope with the casualties from just the one bomb that hit Sheffield.

In 2009, the public house " The Fountain " in Sheffield City Centre was renamed " The Bessemer ", in homage to Henry Bessemer who had a huge impact on the Steel City's development.

The two associations had played 16 inter-association matches under differing rules ; the Sheffield Rules, the London Rules and Mixed Rules.

With Lady Douglas Sheffield, a young widow of the Howard family, he had a serious relationship from about 1569.

However, United ( now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish ) had a good run in the FA Cup ; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final.

On that day they went down 4 – 0 to Bury and two years later they would suffer a similar fate at the hands of Sheffield United as they were beaten 2 – 1 in a replay of the 1902 final, but it had given the club a thirst for the big occasion — albeit one that would not be truly satisfied for over seven decades.

Southampton had finally broken their major honours duck and finally laid to rest memories of defeats in the 1900 FA Cup Final against Bury and more agonisingly the 1902 FA Cup Final against Sheffield United.

The event also coincided with the beginning of their first arena tour and the Daily Mirror, who had attacked the band months earlier, set up a " Justice for Jarvis " campaign backing his actions and carried out a stunt at Pulp's Sheffield Arena gig on 29 February, handing out free T-shirts.

From its beginnings, Tidioute was connected to the cutlery industry, when groups of cutlery workers who had emigrated from Sheffield, England migrated from factories in New England to the vicinity of Tidioute and northern Pennsylvania to establish their own concerns.

The original series was based on Professor Helen Witwell, a forensic pathologist based in Sheffield, whom McCrery had known while serving as a police officer.

Official investigations into the disaster criticised Sheffield Wednesday for not acting upon previous incidents that had shown the potential for crushing at Hillsborough.

The Danish fans endeared themselves to the local population with their fanatical support and exemplary behaviour, and were particularly popular amongst local landlords — a number of Sheffield public houses had to order emergency supplies of beer and cigarettes.

Ware's friend Paul Bower of Sheffield New Wave band 2. 3 who had just recorded a single for Bob Last's Edinburgh-based independent label Fast Product, took their demo to Last and he signed the band.

) Plaque located in Sheffield Hallam University commemorating The Human League's first live concertWith their reliance on technology and tape machines, the band had been nervous about playing live.

Oakey further recruited multi-instrumentalist Nic Burke, then aged 21, who he had seen playing in Sheffield, to play electric guitar and keytar.

They bought out the Dearne and Dove Canal in 1846, and acquired the Sheffield Canal from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1848, who, as the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, had bought it in 1846.

The new company obtained an Act of Parliament on 26 August 1889, creating the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company, which was authorised to raise £ 1. 5 million and to purchase the four canals either by negotiation, or by compulsory purchase if after nine months negotiations with the railway company had failed to reach an agreement.

The London Corresponding Society had affiliates in Manchester, Norwich, Sheffield and Stockport.