Sheffield United fan’s insane Sheffield Wednesday, Dejphon Chansiri prediction has come true - nearly nine years later | OneFootball

Sheffield Wednesday have been put into administration, and this outcome is something that was foretold by a rival fan almost a decade ago.

Sheffield Wednesday have been put into administration, and this is an outcome that was foretold almost a decade ago by a fan of their biggest rivals.

The collapse of Sheffield Wednesday into administration at the end of last week had one effect which spoke volumes for the predicament in which the club had found itself by that point.

So desperate were the fans for the removal of Dejphon Chansiri before he could do even more damage to their club that even the prospect of the uncertainty of insolvency coupled with a minimum 12-point deduction for it was still greeted with a huge sigh of relief from the blue and white half of the city.

The reaction of the fans of other clubs has been telling, as well.

Wednesday fan protests against their owners have earned the fan base considerable praise, and in particular those who've been through a similar ordeal in the past. But there is one set of fans who would be unlikely to praise Wednesday fans in any respect, and neither should they be expected to be. Those are the fans of the team who represent the red and white half of the city, Sheffield United.

Blades fan uncannily predicts Sheffield Wednesday's future under Chansiri, and in more ways than one

One tweet from a Sheffield United supporter sent almost a decade ago has proved to be eerily prescient in its hopes for the eventual outcome of Dejphon Chansiri's ownership of the club. On the 19th November 2016, Blades supporter @PaddysMad tweeted on the social media site X that: "Hopefully Chansiri leaves, Wendy go into Admin and there left with Hansiri on them seats."

Having rediscovered the tweet earlier this week, the account was greeted by a flurry of replies recognising his soothsaying skills.

Others sought to compare him with arguably the greatest fortune-teller of them all.

And of course, there were plenty of Sheffield Wednesday fans also on hand to point out that some of his predictions might not necessarily have been as accurate.

Wednesday's unravelling was predictable, but the missing "C" from the North Stand wasn't

Of course, some aspects of this Tweet were easier to predict than others. In November 2016, Dejphon Chansiri had taken over ownership of the club at the start of the previous year and was already spending a huge amount of money in pursuit of building a team capable of returning to the Premier League.

On the 19th November 2016, the idea of Sheffield Wednesday returning to the Premier League certainly wasn't a pipe-dream. Earlier that day, they'd drawn 1-1 at Fulham, a result which left them in 9th place in the Championship table, just two points off a play-off spot. And Wednesday did come that close that season, ending it by finishing in 4th place in the table before losing on penalty kicks in the play-off semi-finals to Huddersfield Town.

This, of course, was the closest that Sheffield Wednesday would get to the Premier League under the soon-to-be former owner, and by the 2017-18 season they were selling Hillsborough to a company owned by Chansiri in order to avoid falling foul of PSR regulations. In 2021 they were relegated to League One, the first time they'd dropped into the third tier in just over a decade.

But while it may have been straightforward enough to understand that Chansiri was taking a high-stakes gamble by spending so heavily, the issue of the missing "C" from the stand is less easy to explain.

The former owner had written his surname all over the ground, including having it picked out in white seats against a background of blue in Hillsborough's North Stand, as part of his sponsorship of the club.

But with his removal from the day-to-day running of Wednesday confirmed, work started almost immediately on removing some of the prominent vestiges of his ownership. As one supporter said in a post on the Wednesday forum Owlstalk at the end of last week, "If anyone called Hans wants to buy the club now we could save time and just take out the -iri."

Of course, the possibility remains that there could yet be a Howard Ansiri who's prepared to step in and buy or sponsor Sheffield Wednesday. But he'll need to get his skates on, because the likelihood of those remaining seats being there much longer doesn't seem very high.