Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Barry Bannan has said that administration needed to happen.

Wednesday have been hit with an automatic 12-point deduction, making the task of Championship survival an even steeper mountain to climb but effectively ends Dejphon Chansiri's ownership of the club.

Bannan has been at Wednesday since 2015 and renewed his contract in August, despite many of his team-mates leaving the club due to delays in the payment of wages for both players and staff.

The 35-year-old told BBC Radio Sheffield: "We've known for a while that this could be the route that it was going to go down, obviously it's a sad day for the club first and foremost, you don't really want to be going into administration,

"As a group of players, it's made our task a lot harder this season as well so it was hard news to take, but this needed to happen, we couldn't keep going on the way it was going on.

"The task becomes bigger but I think for the club going forward, it's probably the right thing that's happened."

Bannan has emphasised the importance of the supporters getting behind the team...