Chey Dunkley, Paul Williams and Darren Moore on the phone: Today's Sheffield Wednesday stories

Sheffield Wednesday return to action tomorrow…
Sheffield Wednesday host Bristol City tomorrow. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)Sheffield Wednesday host Bristol City tomorrow. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)
Sheffield Wednesday host Bristol City tomorrow. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)

Wednesday find themselves eight points adrift of safety going into their clash against Nigel Pearson’s Bristol City tomorrow, and they’re well aware that they need to get back to winning ways if they’re to stand any chance of surviving.

Today’s press conference was called off after the news of Darren Moore’s situation following the news that he was dealing with pneumonia and blood clots as a result of COVID-19, but there was still plenty of Owls content for you to have a look through.

Moore is meant to be resting, but…

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Jamie Smith says that he’s told his boss to rest up as he tries to recover, but he’s still phoning in as he looks to play as big a part in the upcoming preparations as possible.

He’s clearly not one for taking it easy.

Pearson back at Hillsborough

It’ll be his first visit to Hillsborough as a manager since facing the Owls as Leicester City manager back in 2013, and he insists that he won’t be doing any favours for his former club – even though his kids are Wednesdayites!

He also had his say on their relegation woes…

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Some good news at least…

Moore might not be able to take part in training, but there was a big boost as first team coach, Paul Williams, returned after recovering from COVID-19 – it was also nice to see Chey Dunkley back out there and booted up on the grass again.

Meanwhile, Joey Barton had something to say to the Owls boss.

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Goalkeeper v Bristol?

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You’d think that it’d be Keiren Westwood again, because he didn’t do much against Swansea City, but here’s a bit from the gaffer on why he made the change earlier this week in the first place…

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You want injury news? Well Alex Miller has got you covered… There’s good and bad news from the Bristol camp as a key player is cleared but a former SWFC trialist gets ruled out.

Meanwhile, Moore was speaking a few days ago about how he won’t be accepting any sort of pity party at Wednesday if anybody feels like they’ve been hard done by this season.

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