We have a very special guest on this week's episode of All Wednesday, with Owls skipper, Barry Bannan, becoming the first current player to grace our screens. He talks about his Sheffield Wednesday legacy, why he never wanted to leave, and the work he's doing with the Sheffield Children's Hospital.
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00:00And I've always spoke about, to my close mates who have asked why I'm still here, my family.
00:08And when I say out in football, at first it was obviously, it was because I enjoyed playing it.
00:14It was the only thing that I knew growing up as a kid.
00:17But as you get older and it starts to become more serious and you start to become a professional,
00:24then you ask yourself, what do you actually want from football?
00:28Is it money for some people? Is it winning things?
00:34I think most people would say winning things, but sometimes you don't become that lucky.
00:39Mines was obviously what he won. I'm a winner.
00:43But I wanted to be somewhere where I would be remembered for the right things.
00:50And like I look at Celtic and I look at legends of there when I was growing up,
00:57I used to idolise people like Henrik Larsen and I wanted that at a club.
01:03And they got it for winning things and I probably got it for sticking around and not waving, to be honest, and being annoying.
01:14So, no, I just wanted to be remembered at a football club.
01:18When I retire, I'll come back to the stadium with my son who will be a bit older and my daughter will be a bit older.
01:25She knows quite a bit about it at the minute. My son doesn't have a clue.
01:29So hopefully as he gets older, I'll be able to come to this club and he'll be asking me questions like, why are they singing your name?
01:37And that's why I started to play football and what I wanted to achieve at the end of it.
01:45And hopefully I've done that.