Sheffield Wednesday fans have been sharing their unpopular opinions about the team on social media today.
It is well known that Owls fans are some of the most opinionated in the entire Sky Bet Championship. This season they have had plenty to discuss with the club underperforming. Instead of challenging for promotion like expected at the start of the season, they ended up at other end of the table and even changed managers during the season. Fans expressed their anger about the situation many times over the season and you couldn’t go far on social media without a fan being irritated at something that was happening at Hillsborough.
But even with a fan group as wide and as big as Wednesday’s is, consensus and group think does start to happen, especially on social media. Opinions become widely expected as fact and those who defer from the accepted opinion end up being put on blast for expressing their thoughts.
That is why it was interesting to see what unpopular opinions Wednesday fans hold about their team. Inspired by the recent trend for unpopular opinions, Twitter user Edders asked fellow Owls fans what unpopular opinions they had. And people responded.
https://twitter.com/edders17/status/1002158498715709440
Jacob Butterfield was widely reviled during his time at Hillsborough but Adam Gurnhill stuck up for him, saying he had a great performance against Aston Villa.
https://twitter.com/agurnhill21/status/1002160057897844736
However some of them were not positive. Callum Kennedy said that Alex Lopez didn’t deserve to start the play-off final against Hull City back in 2016 while Fudge said that Sam Hutchinson had been overrated by the fans.
Alex Lopez didn’t deserve to start at Wembley after he got bullied in the first half at Brighton and wouldn’t of made a difference to the result if he did start #swfc https://t.co/AJK1PZK25e
— Cammy Kennedy (@LiveF0rever_) May 31, 2018
Sam Hutchinson whilst yes he’s beautiful is vastly overrated
— Fudge🍫 (@Danfudge) May 31, 2018
What are your unpopular opinions?