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Henrik Pedersen opens up on fans’ boycott; Rob Edwards to contact PGMOL over penalty incident

Henrik Pedersen opens up on the boycott by Sheffield Wednesday fans; and Rob Edwards says he is to contact PGMOL over a penalty incident.

Middlesbrough came away with a 1-0 win in front of a sparsely attended Hillsborough, closing the gap to Championship leaders Coventry to one point.

Morgan Whittaker got the only goal of the game in the 6th minute, Wednesday fans boycotting in protest against owner Dejphon Chansiri, leaving large empty sections; with the 3,600+ Boro fans filling their end.

Images were projected onto the stadium ahead of the game, with the club set to be handed a winding-up petition by HMRC.

Messages read: “Dejphon! Time is up! Sell the club!”, “Will there be a Wednesday left for future generations? It’s up to you! Say no early bird season tickets, defend Chansiri”, “Dejphon Chansiri, get out of our club” and ‘Chansiri out!”.

Rob Edwards will put a call in to the PGMOL to discuss the “clear” penalty Middlesbrough were denied, with Conway wiped out by Joe Lumley in the first half, only for referee Thomas Kirk to dismiss claims.

The result means that Wednesday remain bottom with one point from six home games. Emergency loan keeper Joe Lumley made several key saves, but Boro secured their seventh win in 11 games, their best start since 1991.

Rob Law (BBC Radio Tees commentator): “That is a clear penalty! That is penalty all day long, Joe Lumley didn’t get the slightest touch on the ball. The referee is in the perfect position to see it, and yet nothing is given.”

Neil Maddison (Former Middlesbrough midfielder on BBC Tees): “The referee has been poor in this game.

“There has been far too many decisions he has got wrong this evening.

“Middlesbrough had some good chances, but the saves that Joe Lumley made, if he doesn’t make them Boro are walking away with a 4 or 5-0 win.

“Some of the saves he made, especially the one from Alan Browne in the second half was an unbelievably good save.

“Lumley has stopped that game from being at least 3-0 without a shadow of a doubt. At times you have to give credit to the opposition, an opposition that are fighting for their lives.

“They brought in a stand-in keeper and Lumley played out of his skin.”

Sheffield Wednesday head coach Henrik Pedersen told BBC Radio Sheffield:

“Our boys gave everything today from the first to the last and I’m so proud how they did it.

“We are working so hard and we have such togetherness and such strong mentality in this team.

“I’m proud that we can make it so difficult for a team like Middlesbrough but I could feel the disappointment in the dressing room afterwards.

(On the fans’ boycott): “We have all tried to play here when it’s a full house and it’s fantastic.

“I understand all the fans and also the fans who sit at home. I respect everyone, I’m just looking forward to when we can be together again.”

Pedersen, per Sky Sports:

“First of all, we played against a great Middlesbrough team. Rob is doing a fantastic job. They’re well organised with clear playing philosophy.

“But as I said to the players in the dressing room afterwards, we played against a top team, but we could compete with them.

“We all know how Hillsborough can be, it’s fantastic and of course, it’s painful to see this tonight, but I understand and I respect everyone.

“As I said before the game, I know all the fans sitting at home, they’re sitting in the pubs and they’re all together with us and we’re all together.

“And this togetherness – we just have to keep going. I have the biggest respect for everyone.”

Lumley spoke on the penalty incident, acknowledging being fortunate to get away with it, saying with a smile: “No comment”.

To BBC Sheffield, he added: “I don’t mind it’s part of part and parcel at all You know you got to use it to give you a bit of fuel to to put on a good performance and feel like it done that.

“Yeah, well, I had a great time at Middlesbrough, but now I’m here at Sheffield Wednesday for a couple of games and I’m here to help out and do what I can.

“Disappointed to concede early on and obviously disappointed to lose the game. I’d rather play bad and win the game, but take the positives from it, not just myself, the whole team.

“I thought the lads were brilliant, good intensity and put on a good performance against a really top side who are up there in the, I think they’re second now in the Championship.

“So yeah, we take the positives and go into into Saturday and try and try and win the game.

“It’s been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days I’ve come up a couple of days ago stayed in hotel and trained yesterday So it all happened within a couple of days, but I got asked if I wanted to come and help out and I snapped at the chance and as I said I’m here to help the team out and we lost today but try and win on Saturday.”

On commanding whoever’s stood in front of him to make sure they’re stood in the right place: “Yeah well that’s part of being a goalie being vocal and having sort of good communication so you’ve got yesterday was obviously trained but I had to get to know the lads and obviously everyone’s names and yeah, the lads have been great, they’ve been really good with me and the intensity of training, the standard of training yesterday was really good and I was really, really impressed.

“And obviously I’m only here for a couple of games but I’ll be supporting the lads for the rest of the season and I’m sure they can get to where they want to be and they’ve got the ability and the players to do it.”

Middlesbrough head coach Rob Edwards told BBC Radio Tees:

“We got the job done in the end. All that mattered was the three points, not really how we did it.

“We didn’t get the second goal, which I think we deserved and that always kept them in it, always kept them believing they were one moment away from something.

“So I was really pleased to keep the clean sheet and the win in the end.”

He said on the penalty incident, per Northern Echo: “I will put a call in [to PGMOL], I just will. It’s not anything against Tommy. I don’t want to make a thing about that either.

“It’s been him that’s been on the receiving end of them. Tonight was as clear as anything I’ve ever seen.

“I’m a bit worried about what type of tackle it has to be for TC to get a penalty!”

On Conway, now seven games without a goal for Boro: “The goals will fly for him if he keeps doing what he’s doing.

“I’m really pleased he was in the right positions and areas.

“We all want at least one of those to go in but his work rate and commitment is unbelievable. It really is.

“The running he churns out. It was one tonight where all of that side was there but there was the opportunity to score some goals as well. He’s really positive, completely with it and the goals will come. I don’t want us to make a thing of it at all.”

Middlesbrough’s Alan Browne to Sky Sports:

“The three points is all that matters.

“Ideally we could have put that game to bed, we had enough chances but their goalkeeper was outstanding.

“There’s a lot of passion in their dressing room and fair play to them they put up a heck of a fight and gave it a right go but we prevailed and that’s all that matters.”

Morgan Whittaker told Sky Sports:

“I just want to build on this and getting a goal tonight is so important for me but it’s a massive team performance.

“The message before the game was the Sheffield Wednesday situation is tough for them but they’re together to so come here and get the win is important.”

On his goalscoring form:

“Rob (Edwards – boss) has got to know me as person and understand what I needed in a tough moment.

“I knew when I got the first one I’d get on a run and Rob’s been a massive, massive help.”

Here’s how Twitter reacted as Henrik Pedersen opens up on the fans’ boycott; and Rob Edwards says he is to contact PGMOL over the penalty incident…

ON THE BOYCOTT:

@emmillslukes: Heartbreaking to see Hillsborough like this.. 🖤💛

@BigNik81177572: And each and every 1 of them in the home end needs to think about what they’re doing. It’s like crossing a picket line when we should all be sticking together

@swfcsc: Absolutely heroic from the 20k who stayed away tonight. Very proud of you all #swfc. Chansiri. Switch your telly on. That’s literally all the support you have left. #EnoughIsEnough #justgo

@JeffersMFC: Fair play to the #SWFC fans for going through with the boycott, as a Boro fan haven’t spent any money in the stadium, but we need to back our team. Hope it gets resolved soon, 1 c*nt shouldn’t ruin a City and years of history

@utccom: Asking your supporters to boycott a game is just about the biggest and most difficult thing you can ask of them. The empty seats show you have been backed brilliantly tonight. It’s sickening to see what’s happening at your club. Keep fighting.

@JoeWood_7: I just cannot see a way out for them. It’s not like the guy doesn’t have the cash, it’s just he doesn’t want to spend it and has completely ludicrous ideas of how much the club is worth. I really hope something can be done, because their fans deserve so so much better.

@Chris497563: Great effort. Astonishing that some still went though. They don’t seem to realise that the future of their club is at stake which is far more important than one game or even one season.

ON THE PENALTY INCIDENT:

@HalTheBlade: This is why I love the Championship, a clumsy swing of the leg, a blatant penalty, ref not interested. No VAR. Just good, old fashioned, honest incompetence. As the game should be. Marvelous stuff.

@9_Hendo: These EFL referees are surely all in on some form of bet to be the worst!? This is absolutely scandalous. Refs bottled it because it would be another potential keeper sending off for Wednesday. A keeper who only joined on an ’emergency loan’ a day or two ago due to suspension

@Craigyrobbo81: Why are the @EFL continuing to allow decisions like this to continue being made? @FA_PGMOL. The standard of refereeing in this league is disgusting. @Boro #Boro

@RyanGoodo: That’s one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂

@chorleyawaydays: Simulation of the highest order

@bwfc_elliot: I try my best to defend referees but seriously there is no defending this. He has a clean line of vision. What reason could there possibly be for this not being a foul and a yellow card for a bad challenge? What did he think happened for it to not be a penalty?

@StormTroop_Aim: “Joe lad you’re our 2nd emergency loan keeper so far. Go out there and don’t do anything stupid…”

@JonSWFC: Sympathetic ref.

@BoroSniper77: Conway has had a few blatant penaltys not given this season we always get shit refs mate.

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