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Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley aim to keep sky-high level at Wembley

H ow do you top a soaring, giddying high that most Sheffield Wednesday fans may not have experienced in their lifetimes? On Monday their team will try, although there may be no replicating the feeling they engendered upon overhauling a 4-0 first-leg deficit against Peterborough to reach the League One playoff final. A straightforward win could feel prosaic by comparison but the prize on offer at Wembley is impossible to play down: promotion would be the first, crucial, step in heaving a storied institution from the doldrums.

It will require one last monumental effort and, even then, there is no guarantee a fine Barnsley side will buckle. The 80th iteration of this South Yorkshire derby will contain more spice than any of its predecessors and it is a reminder, too, of the sky high standards set in this season’s third tier. Wednesday finished with 96 points and would not have believed anyone who, back in August, suggested that tally would not secure automatic promotion; even Barnsley’s total of 86 points, in coming fourth, would have earned a top-two spot in three of the last 10 seasons.

“We don’t even talk about the comeback, that was then and it has gone,” Darren Moore, the Wednesday manager, has said. Moore has remained a model of consistency and dignity during a season in which brickbats and, in the aftermath of the defeat to Posh, online racist abuse have been hurled his way. He is wise to remain on an even keel: Wednesday appeared to be walking the league until a spell in March and April that brought seven points from eight games, allowing relentless Plymouth and Ipswich sides to outstrip them. They seemed to have fluffed a golden opportunity. The recriminations were severe at the time but they paid an

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