LEAKY DEFENCE COULD BE COSTLY

Chris Dunlavy

A fresh take on football

BUZZING. That’s how goalkeeper Cameron Dawson described the young Sheffield Wednesday defenders prematurely thrust into action this season.
Matt Penney, Jordan Thorniley, Ash Baker, Connor Kirby; none of them anticipated being regular starters before a toxic combination of internal politics and financial meltdown cleared a path to the first team last summer.
“It’s given them a chance they might never have got”, said Dawson, himself a beneficiary of the clumsy attempt to t...