Liam Palmer is set to make his 500th appearance for Wednesday against Watford at Hillsborough this evening.

It’s a rare milestone in modern day football for someone to achieve with one club and Liam is only the fourth player in our history to do so.

He began his Wednesday career as a seven-year-old and came through the academy before making his first team debut back in August 2010, the Owls beating Bury 1-0 in a League Cup first round tie at S6.

Liam will arguably be most remembered for scoring that injury-time goal in the ‘Miracle of Hillsborough’ play-off semi final second leg, paving the way for an eventual penalty shootout triumph which, in turn, led to us clinching promotion back to the Championship with a last-gasp victory over Barnsley in the final at Wembley in 2023.

He was also voted London Owls Player of the Year at the end of the promotion season.

Liam was appointed club captain earlier this season, following Barry Bannan’s departure to Millwall, and it will be a fitting moment this evening when the boyhood Wednesday fan and ‘one of our own’ leads the team out on a special night under the Hillsborough lights.

As for the game itself, Wednesday will be wanting to end a run of 13 successive defeats and to make up for an added time Watford equaliser in a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture in December.

Watford sit six points off the the play-off places.