The League Paper

Oh Fernando, where did it all go wrong?

by
The LeaguePaper Team
15 September 2019

Chris Dunlavy

THERE was a time, not so long ago, when a six-game ban for Fernando Forestieri would have spelled disaster for Sheffield Wednesday.
Now? The Italian won’t even be missed. The beating heart and creative lynchpin of a once irresistible Owls attack, Forestieri has become both passenger and problem.
Wednesday fans will always retain a soft spot for the man called Fessi, and justifiably so. The forward’s arrival from Watford in 2015 was the catalyst for the club’s unexpected revival under Carlos Carvalhal.
No other player so perfectly captured the giddy euph...

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