A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. A lesser spotted win! And it was unconvincing! Not the greatest advert for the third tier in a rare non-cancelled game on an International Break, but we steal the "loaned points" at home against Bolton. Also we briefly cover the pizza cup game midweek as pa...
Oct 10, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 12
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. A mixed bag with two unexpected results but a similar points tally. We enjoy the re-emergence of the man they/we call Patto despite a familiar tale of defensive frailty. There's inevitable frustration and pondering how long Big Daz can keep churning out und...
Oct 03, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 11
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. That old and nagging feeling of experiencing something we have experienced before. And a poor joke about how bad Wednesday are that we think we have made before, but it has that feel, you know? In Wednesday's sickening 1-1 draw with the Tractor Boys, we get...
Sep 26, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 10
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Disappointment yet again and another game against third-tier cloggers that we should have won as Wednesday draw 1-1 with Shrewsbury at Hillsborough. Much like a pointless "live" news broadcast, Rich is at the scene at Middlewood Road while Luke feels the pa...
Sep 19, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 9
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Another weekend game and another disappointing match, and loss, for Rich and Luke to mull over. Ryan Lowe's Plymouth Argyle deliver new "Lowes" to Wednesday in a 3-0 drubbing and you wonder if the optimism tank is running on fumes for the nigh-300 mile trip...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 8
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Papa John's Pizza... this week we dissect the whole beast - trophy to (tater) tots! In the absence of a weekend fixture we spend a bit more time than usual on the midweek fixture, which saw Wednesday up against a bunch of disaffected Geordie youths. Once th...
Sep 05, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 7
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Unfortunately no "Big Shrimpin'" ala Jay-z feat. UGK for SWFC as we are on the end of a "Mild Shrimping" which is some seafood-related condition found from eating a slightly off prawn cocktail. Not only is Wednesday's trip to the seaside pissed upon in thei...
Aug 29, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 6
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Scarlett Johansson gets several mentions in today's episode and why not? Some Eastern European accents in honour of her new film Black Widow, some question over a possible STI and the fact her cousin (or some other relative) gave us a lovely goal this weeke...
Aug 22, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Season 3Ep. 5
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. "We did good work today". A phrase said of Wednesday's 2-0 win over Doncaster Rovers, but it also could be said by a therapist to their client. This could also be said to Barry Bannan who made a big breakthrough with bagging Wednesday's first goal of the se...
Aug 15, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Season 3Ep. 4
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Another bumper batch of signings to talk through and the first (proper) game of the season to get our teeth stuck into. We find the ways in which Darren Moore wants to be like Olivia Netwon-John just in time for rugged old League One. We scour every event o...
Aug 08, 2021•1 hr 48 min•Season 3Ep. 3
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Prediction time for how Sheffield Wednesday and the other teams will fare in the 2021/22 League One season. Listen in as Luke and Rich feign interest and knowledge in a bunch of third-tier teams that will probably shove it up Wednesday's pooper given the ch...
Aug 01, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 2
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Season 3 of Different Gravy is here! Having spent the summer with our fingers in our ears saying "nananananananana I can't hear you" we finally turn our attention back to the desolate wasteland of present day Wednesday. Between us we have seen one and half ...
Jul 25, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 1
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Episode 100 is here! A big milestone for us has some delectable appetizers with a few surprises, some lovely memories from listeners, and our first ever interview on the podcast as we speak with Matt Exton, director of All Wednesday which we covered last ep...
Jul 18, 2021•2 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 44
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. We watch the 2018 film All Wednesday by Matt Exton and talk through our highlights and thoughts. It's a great watch and if you haven't seen it yet it can be found at https://youtu.be/wfzjG2PXXAY Another Summer Stretch and a bridge between the last episode (...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 43
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. The Summer Stretch stretch continues with a look at the book '91 by local journalist Alex Miller available from all good booksellers and some rotten ones too - why not get it straight from the publisher and cut out the middle men - https://www.verticalediti...
Jun 20, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 42
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. The first of our Summer episodes is out now, the plan is to come up with something different every couple of weeks. This time we stretch our legs and take a walk down memory lane by watching and discussing the 2011 documentary Four Year Plan - which sees QP...
Jun 06, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 41
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. We continue our player grades, grade all our four managers and finally grade ourselves for our woeful attempts to predict Wednesday and this Championship season. Find out who Luke sees as a Yankee-Droitwich Dandy, which takeaway does Rich compare to the Pes...
May 23, 2021•2 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 40
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. It's that time when we get back into giving these oikish, delinquent schoolboys of the Sheffield Wednesday 2020/21 season their grades. Who is the top performer in this extremely dire secondary school? Who is getting a Grange Hill-style banger in their face...
May 16, 2021•2 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 39
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. And so it ends - safe for all of 15 seconds but ultimately this long gruelling season finishes in failure, with Wednesday at the foot of the table. Where did it all go wrong? Where do we go from here? Why did he pick Dunkley? All this and more on this weeks...
May 09, 2021•1 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 38
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. This episode was almost titled "Heartbreak...LIVE!!!" as thanks to another stupid 12:30pm KO we get to record post-match while goals roll in at Rotherham and Swansea (where they have regular KO times). Annoyingly for Luke, the inevitable is postponed for an...
May 02, 2021•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 37
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. It's another reoccurrence of Sheffield Wednesday being disappointing, so why not listen in as Armchair Dullard and Illegal Elk once again dissect some more SWFC tosh in the shape of the loss to Colin's Boro. Our news also looks briefly at the dissatisfying ...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 36
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Bending minds and baffling experts this ground breaking Sheffield Wednesday outfit manage to churn out another sub par week of results where the draw somehow feels much worse than the loss. To add to the natural abundance of mirth and gaiety Luke's also rat...
Apr 18, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 35
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. This episode, which could also be called "Mark Warburton Gets Wise", covers another dizzying new low in Sheffield Wednesday's season as they are decimated by one of the "Pride of London" football clubs, QPR. Spin Doctors, De La Soul, Johnny Cash and Blur al...
Apr 11, 2021•1 hr 49 min•Season 2Ep. 34
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. After a delightful holiday where we got to bask in the glory of a win and enjoy the international break sunshine on our backs this week we are brought thudding back to reality. A loss to flat-track bullies Watford that prompted the question 'How timid is to...
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 33
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. International Break is not a Funternational Break as the Gravy Boys get into a musical episode... "Once More With Some Degree of Conviction", perhaps? Huge shoutouts to Lord Hillsborough and the Owls Americast boys as we play a smorgasbord of the best Owls ...
Mar 28, 2021•2 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 32
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Aaaaaand breathe. We've only gone and won one! The sweet relief of victory, the strange comfort of boring moments, the turning of a cruise ship with a draw at Huddersfield - a positive week and a boisterous mood on the pod. They say its the hope that kills ...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Season 2Ep. 30
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Only one game this week, but truly lots to get disappointed about! Lots of news with the accounts, the rumours of the rats leaving the sinking ship and one rat sticking around like a bad smell. Then we get into the 7th loss in a row against Norwich. I think...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 30
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. New manager chat, Incredible Hulk impressions, hide and seek with giant men, Alex Jones's conspiracy theories about Hutch and the welcoming bosom of death itself - what more could you want from another week here on Different Gravy? WAWAW Stay Safe www.diffe...
Mar 07, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 29
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. Another two games and another two defeats. Life is hard in general even before Wednesday manage to dump another wheelbarrow-load of disappointment on top of it. Luke and Rich first have a brief look at the predictable midweek loss against Brentford. Then we...
Feb 28, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 28
A weekly look at all things Sheffield Wednesday - news, views, boardroom politics and the all important performances on the pitch. Bringing some levity to life as a Wednesdayite, enjoying the highs and only occasionally wallowing in the lows. In the businessy-self-help-productivity sphere 'eat the frog' is a phrase used to describe the act of getting unpleasant or unrewarding tasks out of the way to make room for the good stuff in the rest of your day/week/month. The beauty of the punishing Cham...
Feb 21, 2021•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 27
