Derby County
The 25 Best Players in the Championship - as voted for by you: Part 21 of 25
If form is temporary and class is permanent, then we shouldn’t worry too much about Nottingham Forest’s current league position when considering whether Northern Ireland’s number one is among the best players outside the Premier League. You decided he is and voted him one of the 25 best players in the Championship, which means Joe Harrison had to write about him.
Lee Camp (Nottingham Forest)
Lists of this type rarely …
Deja vu for Derby County as stability comes at a cost
After making their best start to a league season in 106 years by winning their opening four matches, Derby County are once again staring a relegation battle in the face. Joel Clyne balances the long-term stability of the club with a nagging desire to climb the table as soon as possible.
Despite a terrific start to the season, in which Derby gained 18 points from the first eight games, they …
Middlesbrough and Derby County buck the ticketing trend
The excellent Leeds United blog The Scratching Shed (who you can follow on Twitter here, as long as you can cope with a bit of Elland Road-based bias) has put together the statistics you can find at the foot of this post on average attendances in the Championship and kindly couriered them down the M1 for a less specific audience.
They make for interesting reading, particularly given Leeds’s current …
The day Derby County only needed ten men
They say you have to experience the lows to truly experience the highs in life, writes Stephen Marshall. Well, in football that is certainly the case if you follow any team without trillions of oil dollars in its coffers or a Glaswegian genius in charge.
Saturday’s game was shorn of some of the animosity that has clouded recent encounters between Nottingham Forest and Derby County, at least in the …