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The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust have issued details of the next protest against owner Dejphon Chansiri, for their EFL Cup game against Leeds.

The Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust have issued details of their next planned protest against club owner Dejphon Chansiri, for their upcoming EFL Cup match against Leeds United.

Sheffield Wednesday's summer of crisis continues unabated, with the team having started the new season with two defeats which have sent them plummeting towards the bottom of the Championship table.

New manager Henrik Pedersen faces one uphill battle after another, with the latest being ongoing issues over registering new players to play for them, despite having been released from a transfer embargo on the eve of the new season.

The sole piece of really good news to have come on the pitch so far - beyond a not-completely-discouraging performance against Leicester in their opening match, despite losing 2-1 - came in the First Round of the EFL Cup, when Wednesday defeated Bolton Wanderers 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 3-3 draw at The Toughsheet Community Stadium.

But now, drawn against Premier League Leeds United in the next round, the likelihood of a big payday for the Owls has been diminished by a statement from the Trust, calling on action against Chansiri to continue.

Trust statement urges a fan boycott of Leeds United match

In a statement issued on the social media platform X on Tuesday afternoon, the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust urged Wednesdayites to boycott their next EFL Cup match against Leeds United.

The Trust was very clear in its rationale for supporting the boycott: "Every ticket puts money into the hands of an owner who has shown nothing but contempt for the fanbase and disregard for the long-term future of our club. We understand how painful it is to miss a fixture against a major rival, but sometimes sacrifice is needed for the bigger picture."

Wednesday fans are also requested to donate the money that they would have spent on tickets to charity: "Instead of giving money to a regime which has driven Sheffield Wednesday into crisis, we are asking supporters to consider giving the cost of their match ticket to charity. By doing so, we can turn what would have been a damaging act for our club into something positive for our community." The post also contains a link to a GoFundMe page for Sheffield Children's Hospital.

This boycott is intended to financially flush Chansiri out of Hillsborough

Sheffield Wednesday fans who are a little short of cash might not have too many objections to boycotting this fixture. Cup matches aren't included as part of the cost of a season ticket at Hillsborough, and their match-day tickets are infamously among the most expensive in the Championship, as they have been for many years.

But the reasoning behind the decision to boycott is straightforward. Dejphon Chansiri has to be financially starved out of Hillsborough, if he won't go by any other means.

His previous valuations of the club are completely out of line with modern thinking on the value of a football club, and his apparent intransigence towards selling the club has already pushed away bidders who were serious about purchasing it.

The EFL has no mechanism for forcing an owner to sell unless they fail the Owners & Directors Test, and Chansiri hasn't done that. As such, the protests at Sheffield Wednesday seem set to continue until either Chansiri has gone or there is no more Sheffield Wednesday, and at the moment it remains the case that it's difficult to tell which of these two endpoints is the more likely.