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The tension is beginning to rise, just a little. With important Championship fixtures still to navigate beforehand, both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United will be all too aware of what’s coming – the long-awaited return of one of the biggest derbies in UK football. Bramall Lane will play host to the first Sheffield derby since March 2019 on November 10.
It’s perhaps a nod to the vital importance of the fixtures to each club’s fan base that the ordinarily focus-first Owls boss Danny Röhl even entertained questions about it with home clashes with Watford and Norwich City to contend with beforehand. But in conversation with The Star in a press conference ahead of the Hornets’ visit to Hillsborough, the German grinned when asked whether he feels the mood shifting in the city. It’s one he’s clearly looking forward to.
“This is a special game, a big, big game – maybe the biggest game,” he said. “If we look a year back, nobody expected we have a derby this season but now we have it. United were in the Premier League and we had one leg in League One, you maybe didn’t think next year would be that big game. We have it and we feel it step by step.
“In the next two games we need a good situation which means we take points and we look forward. I had some big games in Germany but what I have heard so far, this will be a big, big one and our fans are waiting for such a big game – and me as well.”
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