Matt Henshaw Recommends ... Caroline Francess ... again ...

Well, this little diamond I found. This absolute gem of an angel ... frum up north ! Sheffield to be precise, and she's a real show stopper.

I've said before that listening to her is like listening to an Original Sound Track, or a Disney film, maybe less frothy, but certainly as catchy and heart string tugging.

Effortlessly switching from humorous ditty to war poetry set to Andrew Lloyd Webber / Elton John solo piano.

I'll tell you something, Burt Bacharach once had a pet duck called Quack Quackarack ... that might not make any sense, but when you think about the combination of Bacharach's humour and genius songwriting, then see Caroline, it will all make sense.

Check her out 'Home' and 'Queen B' you'll be humming whilst washing the dishes or strolling through the park ... and then you think, "hey, she's a Sheffield Wednesday fan too" ... and hey Preston, Robert's your father's brother, and you've got one of my favourite artists right about now !!

Spread The Love, see you and her at my homecoming show in Leicester on Saturday night, gonna be good fun ...

Peace, Love & Tea, MHx
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Matt Henshaw FAQs - Matt Henshaw 11 & The Number Eleven

Good Evening folks, new blog feature starting here, Matt Henshaw FAQs. Not sure how often I'll do this kind of thing or if it's at all that important, but anytime I feel I'm getting asked things more often than not, or going over the same things over and over again in interviews I'll write something like this ... so first thing's first, let's go with this one ...

Why "Matt Henshaw 11" or "MattHenshaw11" ?

For the purpose of this blog, I think the picture up top illustrates my point most succinctly. There's a bag of old Sheffield Wednesday shirts in the loft at my mum and dad's with "Henshaw 11" on the back.

Tea and Toast with Matt Henshaw & Stu Crown ... Podcast Episode 001

Good afternoon friends, family, fans and loved ones,

Here's something new for you all, and it was pretty off the cuff. Me and my friend, Stu Crown of The Bobcats, decided to get together in his flat and record a podcast for you all. We're giving it you for nothing, as it's just what we'd normally do of an afternoon anyway, sit, talk, drink tea, and eat biscuits. It's nothing special, not yet anyways, but the feedback we've had so far has been great overnight. So, it's something we plan to keep on doing, keep your eyes and ears open.

Here's Stu himself presiding over the knobs and the technical side of things, I'm sat opposite him trying to think of witty thing to say about Paul Lambert, tea and the Leicester Music Scene ...



There should be one coming up next week, with a special guest too, and we're hoping to bring you some natter every week from now on.
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An Open Letter to Sheffield Wednesay FC & Sheffield Wednesday Fans ...

Now, I don't usually do this but this evening I found myself embroiled in a debate on a Sheffield Wednesday fans' forum, as a short-term facebook user something like this was bound to happen eventually, it was noted that an article had been written about the possibility of sacking Dave Jones and replacing him with, possibly, Paolo Di Canio, and names have been thrown around like Ian Holloway, Alan Curbishley or the return of Gary Megson ... I'm sure there may have been some one step away from suggesting Ron Atkinson ! So, I considered a response, and for about 30 seconds decided whether it should stay in my head or allow myself to transcend my thought via my fingers, keyboard and through to the world wide web ... I did it ! And here's what I had to say ... would love to know if there's any Wednesday fans, football fans or generally anyone with an opinion out there who agrees or disagrees with me ...

" It would be foolhardy to sack Jones at this stage, what's the real alternative? All the names mentioned would cast Hillsborough as a circus big top like it was in the late nineties/early noughties, and we all know how that turned out, are we still feeling the affects of Wim Jonk's wage bill ?

Anyways, I hope we can stick with Jones and turn it round, the Championship is always about a string of results completely sending your season one way or the other, I take a tiny glimmer of hope in the fact that most games have been draws and not losses, and we've managed to score in every game bar one, maybe I'm clutching at straws but I don't see any major issues, with any particular players, management or Milan, not that they're all great either, but Wednesday fans always are quick to forget the not too distant past and forget that we're still a fairly newly promoted club, and whilst we have a grand history, it was only automatic promotion due to the rapid decline of the other team in the city as late in the season as April 2012, under a new manager - the man in question - and without the massive investment seen at some other clubs and whilst attempting to rectify financial stability at the club. We managed another season and had a real good push towards the play-offs towards the end.

I hope I'm not eating my words come the new year, but there's always a notion with Wednesdayites to look back through rose-tinted spectacles to this golden era of the nineties, when in reality it was predicated on a similar structure of instability that saw the socio-political spiral [system] into chaos a few years later, debt, complacency and lots of it! The clubs that have survived and flourished since that time are the ones that have progressed, built solid foundations, been more business-like and rational in their decision making rather than fiery and, indeed like I said, foolhardy. Now, I wouldn't want our beloved club to be as boring as Stoke or Fulham but I'd love to support a Premiership club again ! Up The Owls ... the only way is up right now though isn't it !??"

So, there it was, my first foray into the world of football forums, I hope you can forgive me, and/or perhaps but me forward for a job at the Guardian's sports desk ... wouldn't mind going in the pod with James Riachardson, or failing that, having a chat with Lord Hillsborough and the chaps over at The Wednesday Week ...

Let's get behind the club, their current manager and raggle taggle squad if you're a fan, and if you're a romantic you know you want to see one of the oldest, most famous and most titilatingly titled English clubs out there back up in the Premier League ... where they belong.

I'm even appropriately dressed for the occasion sat, as I am, on my Sheffield Wednesday bean bag ...

Football Football Football ...

As you may well, probably do, should know if you follow me, my music or my Twitter feed, I'm a Sheffield Wednesday fan, and enjoy airing my view about the football. Currently I sit watching the Football League Show on the BBC, featuring Col... Neil Warnock ... and I'll leave it there ...

Thought I'd share a couple of pics whilst sat here doing midnight promo for Coming Around ... first off there's Eric Cantona taking part in a trial for Sheffield Wednesday ... oh, what could have been ... and Pele playing at Hillsborough in 1962 ... Legends !



Here's the previews for the record ...

And it's hi-ho Sheffield Wednesday !

You're everywhere and no where, baby
That's where you're at
Going down a bumpy hillside
In your hippy hat

Flying across the country
And getting fat
Saying everything is groovy
When your tyres are flat

And it's hi-ho Sheffield Wednesday
And away you go now, baby
I see your sun is shining
But I won't make a fuss
Though it's obvious

Flies are in your pea soup, baby
They're waving at me
Anything you want is yours now
Only nothing is for free

Lies are gonna get you some day
Just wait and see
So open up your beach umbrella
While you're watching TV

And it's hi-ho Sheffield Wednesday
And away you go now, baby
I see your sun is shining
But I won't make a fuss
Though it's obvious

And it's hi-ho Sheffield Wednesday
And away you go now, baby
I see your sun is shining
But I won't make a fuss
Though it's obvious

And it's hi-ho Sheffield Wednesday
And away you go now, baby
I see your sun is shining
But I won't make a fuss
Though it's obvious

Jeff Beck Hi-Ho Silver Lining at Hillsborough ...

Henshaw in Wednesday's paper ...

My little achievement earlier this week has made it into Sheffield Wednesday's Twitter newspaper ... one of the top 3 stories no less !

Have a read here about my driving atainment, Wednesday winning and Megson's optimism ...

The Wednesday ! #swfc