With the international break taking the focus away from the Championship and the current Owls squad I found myself reminiscing of a time when the international break was of more significance to the Wednesday team with many members of the squad trying to help their respective nations qualify for the major international tournaments.
One player who did this with more aptitude and style than the majority of his peers was Roland Nilsson.
The Swedish right-back joined Wednesday for what turned out to be a bargain £375,000 in December 1989 from IFK Gothenburg, where he had become accustomed to challenging for championships and playing European football.
The Owls were relegated from the top flight in his first season but Nilsson, already an accomplished international footballer, decided to stick with the club under the guidance of Ron Atkinson and he became a key part of the team in the most successful period for the club in the modern era.
The club won promotion back to the top flight at the first attempt and also picked up the League Cup in the same season with Nilsson marking the man of the moment Lee Sharpe out of the game in the final against Manchester United at Wembley.
The following season saw the Owls finish third in the old first division and in 1993 the club reached two cup finals with Nilsson an integral part of the team throughout. Nilsson showed his 1st rate commitment and attitude by playing in the 1993 F.A Cup final replay against Arsenal less than 48 hours after being on international duty for Sweden.
Nilsson left for his homeland in 1994 with a reputation as one of the best players ever to have donned the blue and white stripes, having possessed excellent tactical awareness, good technical ability, a first rate attitude and unrivalled levels of fitness.
The right-back helped Sweden to a third-place finish in the 1994 World Cup and retired with 116 international caps to his name.
After leaving the Owls Nilsson had two spells at both Helsingborgs and Coventry City as a player before a brief and ultimately unsuccessful spell as manager of the latter in 2001/02.
Since then he has once again returned to his homeland, managing GAIS for almost five years. In 2007 he became manager of Malmo, one of the biggest names in Swedish football and he is still currently employed by the club. Who knows, maybe one day in the future he might return to manage the Owls, if he was to bring anything like the success he did as a player then that would do nicely.
For now his name will rightly be remembered with legendary status by Wednesday fans for his achievements as a player.