{"id":619156,"date":"2026-05-02T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:53:16","slug":"efl-championship-live-build-up-team-news-score-and-live-text-updates-from-12-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619156\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Championship LIVE: Build-up, team news, score and live text updates from 12 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US consortium takes over Sheffield Wednesdaypublished at 12:47 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:47 BSTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Sheff Wed 0-0 West Brom<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A sunny Hillsborough - Sheffield Wednesday's home ground - with the goal and an Owls club badge visible in the foregrond\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7d18279f-1905-405a-aeb2-4e1b2f2b0f4b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some massive news breaking on the final day of the season as Sheffield Wednesday host West Bromwich Albion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Owls have announced that US consortium Arise Capital Partners has completed a takeover of the club, officially bringing to an end Dejphon Chansiri&#8217;s ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group is led by David Storch, 73, an American executive whose background is in the aviation services sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storch&#8217;s son, Michael, and Tom Costin complete the three-man consortium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Costin brings football experience to Wednesday through Blue Crow Sports Group &#8211; a multi-club football ownership and investment platform with controlling interests in Leganes from Spain, Le Havre in France and Mexican club Cancun FC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c1e278wgqwjo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US consortium takes over Sheffield Wednesdaypublished at 12:47 BST 12:47 BSTBreaking Sheff Wed 0-0 West Brom Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-619156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}