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Sheffield Wednesday fan gives passionate phone call on Dejphon Chansiri and club crisis

A Sheffield Wednesday fan gives a passionate phone call to BBC Sheffield Football Heaven on Dejphon Chansiri and the club crisis.

Gaz, a lifelong Sheffield Wednesday fan, is deeply disillusioned with the club’s owner, Dejphon Chansiri, amid ongoing turmoil.

Usually excited about the season, Gaz is not looking at the fixture list, unaware who his club will face, and more concerned the ongoing chaos and uncertainty regarding the players, staff, unpaid wages and Chansiri.

He criticises the owner over a lack of communication, disrespect for fans and the club’s heritage, and actions like the silence for the Thai king, which Gaz sees as Chansiri spiting fans.

He believes Chansiri’s financial issues and animosity have ruined his reputation, predicting further decline unless the club is sold, though he doubts buyers will meet Chansiri’s price

. Gaz praises the players and staff for their resilience, but feels heartbroken, torn between attending games for his son and a growing detachment from a “broken” club.

Gaz: I’m 40 year old. I’m the biggest nerd going. When the new shirt comes out, I love critiquing it and all. I like that. I don’t like that. I couldn’t care less this season, Rob.

“I mean, I think it’s, I genuinely do not know. Oh, I’m gonna be honest. I don’t know whose first game of season is. I’m not even joking. I haven’t looked at the fixture list. I mean, it’s just turmoil. I couldn’t even tell you if we’re home and away. And for somebody who will go, you’re talking rubbish. I genuinely haven’t looked, and that’s not me.

“All I’m consumed with at at the minute is him and what he’s doing. Because it’s just day after day, there’s something new comes out.

“I mean, Andy Holdsworth, might be taking temporary charge, and what happened to Pedersen? What happened to Danny? Like, we’re skipping phase one and two and going to three. We had no communication, no information. Nothing’s even getting drip fed anymore. It’s just like a closed book.

“I feel like in some respect, Rob, he’s kind of spiting us a little bit. Like, oh, you’re finally rearing up, are you? I’ll show you you guys. I mean, he’s obviously struggling for money, but I think there’s an animosity there the same as we’ve got for him. He’s not no respect for us, Rob. I respectfully stood for three minutes doing a minutes three minutes silence, sorry, for the Thai king. I had no issue with that. It meant something to him and at the time, he was our owner. And I respect the whole the whole ground did it. I bet most of us are thinking, what are we doing here? What’s all what’s going on? But we did it out of respect.

“It’s shown as nothing. There’s no respect. He’s not respecting my family’s heritage of following Wednesday from my granddad to my dad to me. He’s not giving us no. He’s an absolute mess, and he cannot show his face in Sheffield again. He cannot show his face in Sheffield because he’s soiled. He’s done.

“So he needs to sell us by hook or by crook. So there will be vultures, but we’ll not wanna pay what he wants to pay. So the so the next few months are gonna be, I would say, an even more downward spiral until we get into some semblance of sense from him that he needs to just get rid.

“And it’s just gonna be awful. I’d love to know the players, I know even probably you guys don’t know them all, but I’d love to know the players who put the notice in. I applaud them for having the courage to do it because it can’t be easy for them. They’ve got families. I applaud them. I hope you go and find another club that treats you like a human being.

“I hope the club staff find something else if they want to. Ideally, they want after because the people in there love the club. The little lady, I don’t know her name. She’s brilliant. Tiny tiny little thing. Love her. Every time I go in, she’s got a smile. She don’t deserve this.

Rob: “Guys, you are the, the person who rang in once and told everybody to just calm down and have a Chinese. And, you’ve often, you know, shown your passion for Sheffield Wednesday, whether that is online or on this this, phone in. How would you describe your passion for the club right now?”

Gaz: “It hurts, Rob. I go from I just don’t care anymore. But I obviously do care because if I didn’t care, I won’t keep going on about it. I don’t know I don’t know what my mindset is. I just feel, I feel like it’s broken, and I don’t know how I’m getting it back. I don’t wanna go, but I’ve got to go.

“And that and that’s the worst feeling in the world, doing something you don’t wanna do, but you’ve gotta do it. I’ve gotta go. I’ve gotta go for my son. I’ve gotta go for me my little lad who wants to start going. It’s generations of following my football club. Generations of it. I’m not tossing it away for him, but in the same instance, I don’t wanna be there.”

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Twitter users reacted as a Sheffield Wednesday fan gives a passionate phone call on Dejphon Chansiri and the club crisis…

@danielsdrk: @GazRobinson1 utterly superb call pal. All genuine footy fans stand with you. Football is a family.

@GuestyBFC: As a lifelong Barnsley fan in my thirties I have imagined this situation for Wednesday a lot mainly due to the stick I got from their fans at school etc, and thought I’d love it to happen, but now it actually is there’s no pleasure to be taken at all from it, it’s a crying shame.

@Ol_Foz: Well said @GazRobinson1! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I want to go but I’m not going again until #chansiri is gone for good. #chansiriout

@aroundgroundsss: Well said this man. It’s our football club not his, yes he owns it but generations have supported this football club and will continue to. Wednesday fans know exactly when we are being mistreated and our owner is doing that. Do the right think Chansiri and sell the club, no one wants you and let us have our club back and restore some pride back. Because not one of us are looking forward to this championship season that is for sure.

@therealtbailey: A brilliant call as ever @GazRobinson1 one that I’m sure resonates with everyone. I’m totally fed up with it, absolutely dejected. He’s killed our club Chansiri. As I said the other day, he’s the single worst thing to have ever happened to our club.

@CraigCornwall: Exactly where I am with it all. Numb some of the time, angry at others. But I won’t be telling my son we won’t be going. Though he can look forward to DH Gate replicas for a while yet. #swfc

@Hank83416250473: Feel for likes of @GazRobinson1 who do follow #swfc through no matter what but nope it’s not for me, I can easily do without going even though I’m constantly pestered to go by the nephew, his dad and my dad.

@LiamHen09638538: Her name is Jane, she’s lovely. For 35 plus years has been amazing. Showed her love to my Dad when my step mum passed away in 2009. Most of the staff have been there years showing their loyalty through all that’s happened. They deserve so much more.

@JamesFurness14: As a blade it’s not giving me any pleasure following this situation, a lot of these unpaid wages are affecting the likes of you and me doing a 9-5 and rely on the money to get by, sadly I’m not over confident we won’t be in the same situation with the yanks later down the line

@mickyh01: We have been there with our owners under BSHL, we can turn round and say why should we care, because when it’s not your club, truth is nobody does care and I get that. But it’s genuinely disgraceful what he is doing to that club. He needs to sell up

@anthonywilby: As a blade he’s spot on and what he said about the lady at the end brought it home… yes I hate you all with a passion but if you go under what then.. Sheffield would be boring… I hope you get relegated to league two… because that’s one thing you’ve got on us… but to go out of

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