Barry Bannan’s Christmas wish for Sheffield Wednesday

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00:00So, first question was, have you got a Christmas wish for Sheffield Wednesday?

00:05A Christmas wish? I have actually. Hopefully we can win a boxing day and start climbing up the

00:13table. We're in a nice position at the minute, but I wish we'd be able to win a boxing day,

00:17because it means leaving your family on Christmas Day.

00:22And what do you love about Sheffield?

00:24I don't live in Sheffield anymore. I've moved to Nottingham, but I've obviously lived here for

00:28a couple of years, and I've been here at this club for 10 years now.

00:33Just how passionate they are about their football, and how it's a working-class city.

00:37That's the way I was brought up as a kid back in Scotland, so I can kind of connect with that,

00:43and it's got really nice coffee places.

00:49And what's special about Owls fans?

00:51Just how passionate they are about their club. That's what's really touched me since I've come

00:57here. It's all about winning, no matter what league you're in, no matter what team you play

01:02against these fans, expect to win games. I've grown up hating losing, and I've come to this

01:09club and it's the same, they hate losing. It's all about winning, and I've really enjoyed how

01:14passionate the fans have been. Brilliant.

01:17And just speaking a little bit about the campaign that you're involved with,

01:21why should Wednesday fans learn CPR?

01:25We say it's not just for saving people in stadiums, or walking down the street and being

01:33able to save someone on the street. Like Ellie and Dennis have seen here, they were at home

01:39watching a football match, and her dad's had a cardiac arrest, and she's been able to save

01:44his life, which I'm sure if it was any of your Wednesday fan in there, dad had a cardiac arrest,

01:51and you weren't able to do it, it would be something that you'd look back at and regret.

01:56So it's just being able to have that power of being able to revive people in your own household.

02:03So don't regret it, and get it done. And like I said, it's 15 minutes of your time over this

02:09Christmas period that you've got loads of time in, so it's just to be able to do it really,

02:14because you never know, especially when I think, I'm not sure of the numbers, but we've seen loads

02:20of cases on the pitch this season where games have been stopped because people have been having

02:23cardiac arrests in crowds. So it seems to be at the minute, I might be wrong, that it is rising

02:29the numbers who are having cardiac arrests. So it's just something that I think everybody should

02:35do. As I said, it's not a lot of time, get it done, and hopefully you never have to use it,

02:39but if you do, you've got the power to do it.