I must say that we have been so fortunate with Wednesday books. There are few clubs with such a collection of well written history books.
The main heros have to be Farnsworth, Sparling and Jason Dickinson of course.
It may be worth pointing out that since The Wednesday Boys the quality of books has plumited somewhat. Examples being -
Legends of Sheffield Wednesday, possibly the poorest book ever made about the club/it's players;
Head to Head - Breedons attempt to redo the 'A Complete Record' series, and completely and utterly failing. The Complete Record is a Bible of a book when it comes to stats. Thank goodness they made them. All they should have done was update them and republish, would have been much better than the Head to Head books.
I recently purchased 'The Steel City Divide' for £2 in a bargin bookshop in York. They have loads of the things. It was worth the £2 but not a great deal more. The Sheffield Wednesday half is of far superior quality to the United half, which I had to stop reading after a while.
Top books are (in no particular order)
The Romance of the Wednesday - Sparling
A complete record - Farnsworth
A hundred years at Hillsborough - Dickinson
Wednesday! - Farnsworth
Sheffield Football, Volume 1 - Farnsworth
Football in Sheffield - Percy Young
The Wednesday Boys - Dickinson and Brodie
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