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Are you spitting feathers about the poultry sum an Indian chicken company has paid for those cocks of the north, Blackburn Roosters, or do you want me to stop scratching around and get on with it?

I am guessing it's the latter so no more yolks, sorry, they're not funny and this story deserves better because it signifies the end of one era and beginning of another, for the club, the Premier League and possibly the Indian subcontinent.

OK, that last statement is a bit OTT but news that an unheralded, family-run business from India has just bought a founding member of both the Football League and its mega-bucks off-shoot, the Premier League, tells us something significant about that region and our own.

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Companies Court at the Royal Courts of Justice is a gloomy place at the best of times and really depressing the day it deals with the winding-up list.

Hundreds of businesses are consigned to the dustbin in a matter of hours and behind each failure is a story of bad luck, broken promises and dodgy decision-making.

In that regard, Sheffield Wednesday are no different to the fading firms, ill-fated enterprises and assorted Del Boys they shared a trench with on Wednesday.

But a club with 143 years of history, one of football's most famous grounds and a loyal fan base in England's fourth largest city should never darken these doors.

So how did it get this bad?

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