{"id":179138,"date":"2025-10-04T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:38:07","slug":"henrik-pedersen-sheffield-wednesday-boss-not-expecting-player-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179138\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrik Pedersen: Sheffield Wednesday boss not expecting player strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the litany of off-field issues, the Owls have put together a run of three games without defeat and only a last-minute equaliser from Birmingham City<\/a> on Tuesday stopped them from climbing out of the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

Protests against the owner are once again planned for Saturday’s home match against high-flying Coventry and there have been suggestions that some fans may look to enter the pitch in order to have the game held up or even called off.<\/p>\n

City boss Frank Lampard told BBC CWR that although he had “a lot of sympathy with Sheffield Wednesday fans”, he wanted clarity about player security.<\/a><\/p>\n

When asked about the possibility of a pitch invasion, Pedersen said: “We have not spoken about it but I have heard about it.<\/p>\n

“Of course we all understand the frustration and that there is a protest but we also really hope that it can be without risk and with safety for the fans.”<\/p>\n

In January 2024, Reading fans forced the abandonment of their League One game<\/a> at home to Port Vale after coming on to the pitch to protest against Dai Yongge’s ownership.<\/p>\n

The game, which had been stopped in the 16th minute, was then replayed in full the following month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the litany of off-field issues, the Owls have put together a run of three games without defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-179138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}