Sheffield Wednesday v Hull City – Four years on: “If it was anyone else…”

A late burst in the Championship saw an exciting Owls team – pushed on by the likes of Fernando Forestieri, Kieran Lee, Tom Lees and Gary Hooper – secure the final Play-Off spot before seeing off Brighton & Hove Albion in the semifinals, largely thanks to Ross Wallace.

Carvalhal’s side huffed and puffed, but it was a stunner from Mo Diamé that sealed promotion for Hull and Steve Bruce, with SWFC left to spend yet another season in the second tier.

Wallace, who is now at St. Mirren in Scotland, scored in both legs of the semifinals in order to land a trip to Wembley, and he thinks that if it had been anybody else but Bruce’s Hull then they’d probably have gotten the job done and become a top-flight team once again.

Speaking to the club’s official website recently, the Scottish winger said, “I think if it was anyone else but Hull we’d have won that game but we couldn’t match their experience and knowhow. We couldn’t get past them, they had that experience all over the park. It was such a shame and we were gutted for the fans, who absolutely took the place over.

“The two games before that were just off the scale, the reason you start playing football. You don’t get many chances to experience what we did and although it didn’t turn out the way we all desperately wanted it – for ourselves and the fans – they were moments and memories that will stay with me forever.”

Four years on, Wednesday find themselves in 15th place in the Championship with nine games left to play and only a very slim chance of another Play-Off push, Wednesdayites will have made peace at the fact that the Premier League remains some way away as the club prepares for a 2020/21 season with that 2016 team now all but disbanded.