'Limbs' - Which Sheffield Wednesday goal have you chosen as the most wildly celebrated this season?

“Limbs: plural noun. An arm or leg of a person or four-legged animal, or a bird's wing,” says the Oxford Dictionary.
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In modern football parlance, the word has a very different meaning.

‘Limbs’ is one word used to describe one of the very moments a football fan puts themselves through it for, the moment that your side scores a vital goal at a vital time in a vital game.

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It’s taken from the sight of supporters celebrating wildly, their arms punching the sky and initiating hugs with strangers. It’s that three or five seconds when nothing else matters and you lose yourself. Limbs.

And there have been limbs at Sheffield Wednesday this season.

A Twitter poll of over 500 Wednesdayites offered up four options to choose from; Steven Fletcher’s last-gasp winner at home to Charlton in February, the scenes on the concourse at Nottingham Forest in December and both goals in the 2-0 win over Leeds United in January.

And in true Top of the Pops style, here’s what you decided.

In at four with nine per cent of the vote, it’s Forest

Sheffield Wednesday supporters enjoyed their trip to Leeds United in January.Sheffield Wednesday supporters enjoyed their trip to Leeds United in January.
Sheffield Wednesday supporters enjoyed their trip to Leeds United in January.

As video footage will testify, in terms of pure unbridled joy, that pre-Christmas trip to Nottingham Forest was right up there.

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The Owls were 4-0 up at half-time and as thousands of home fans drained from the ground during the break Wednesdayites turned the City Ground into their own personal nightclub, the strains of “Don’t you know, pump it, the Wednesday’s going up” a tricky earworm to kill off.

In at number three with 15 per cent, it’s Steven Fletcher’s Charlton winner

Easily the finest display of limbs at Hillsborough this season, Fletcher’s late, late winner over Charlton was the perfect recipe for that level of celebration; frustrated, desperate, jubilant.

There were limbs on the bench, too, Fletcher racing to initiate a team-wide embrace with players and staff. The king was back and Wednesday had won at home for the first time in over two months. It was one hell of a sight.

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Kept out of the top spot at two, it’s Jacob Murphy’s late opener at Elland Road

Sat back deep in their half, launching counter attacks with more regularity as the hosts tired, Sheffield Wednesday entered the final stages of their clash at title-chasing Leeds United right where they wanted to be.

The emperor of late intervention had been introduced, and it was he who slid in a perfect assist for loanee Jacob Murphy to slide it home with three minutes to go.

At number one... it’s Atdhe Nuhiu

If Nuhiu could bottle the sort of form he has taken into the final five minutes of matches this season he’d be playing in the Champions League. Having grabbed that inch-perfect assist for Murphy he hammered one home in the 94th minute to send the away support into raptures.

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Cameron Dawson and Morgan Fox took to celebrating in front of the travelling Wednesdayites and the press gantry shook. A worthy winner.

Notable mentions: Nuhiu winner at Rotherham, Nuhiu equaliser at home to Fulham, Nuhiu at Charlton.

Limbs: noun. The image of Sheffield Wednesday supporters celebrating an Atdhe Nuhiu goal.

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