Callum Paterson emerged from the bench to help earn Sheffield Wednesday a dramatic win at Derby County on Sunday and typically it wasn’t an outing without a little pain.
Striding over to the bench just a few minutes after striding off it at Pride Park, Callum Paterson held his other hand in a grimace. It’s a look we’ve seen before.
Because Paterson is a footballer never far from a little dose of pain. All-action, willing to throw his sensitive areas where some wouldn’t place a boot, it’s a spirit that has come to define him. As he once said himself, he’s no Ronaldinho, but for full-throttle commitment to the cause, there is perhaps no finer example. His reward is cult hero status that will stretch far beyond his last game for Wednesday, whenever that may be.
A short conversation with the Owls bench, an assertive nodding and a pained expression. A member of the medical staff did his thing and Paterson’s badly dislocated finger was coerced back into place with a snap. He ran back onto the field and by the end of the game had created a Wednesday winner for Jamal Lowe.
“Urgh,” Röhl reacted when reminded of the incident by The Star, his face recoiling. “Horrible! I saw it. It came straight out and he just said ‘No, come on!’ And they pushed it back in. It was not a nice one to watch, but this is Pato.”
