BRUCE HAS THE EDGE OVER VILLA!
Iorfa gives Owls boss reason to smile
STEVE BRUCE smiled when he was told this point had taken him above Aston Villa, the club that sacked him five months ago.
But he’s still unhappy about the goal that got away.
His Owls had fought back from going behind in 10 minutes to equalise and Bruce thought Sheffield Wednesday had won it with a fairy-tale comeback goal from Sam Winnall 11 minutes from time.
But ref Keith Stroud said Winnall had kicked the ball out of keeper Scott Carson’s hands and disallowed it.
“I asked the TV about it, but they’ve only got one camera,” said Bruce.
“The referee took an eternity to give it so there was a doubt there that’s for sure.
“Whether he’s got the right decision I don’t know. It was close.
“I thought it was going our way and certainly the players did because they were away celebrating with Winnall.”
It was Winnall’s first game since suffering cruciate knee ligament damage while on loan at Derby 17 months ago.
He also broke his nose in an U23 game and played in a mask yesterday when he came off the subs’ bench for George Boyd in the 62nd minute.
There was a theory that Jayden Bogle had played the ball back to Carson under intense Wednesday pressure and, unable to pick the ball up, Carson had dived over it.