One of our favourite club blogs in the Football League is Ollie Wright’s devoted to Derby County. In many ways, this excellent site’s rise to prominence has mirrored that of the football club with which it is concerned - steady and methodical with opinions and actions grounded in reality. We thought it high time that a light be cast on the Rams’ quietly impressive progress under Nigel Clough …
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Euro 2012 and Disdain for the Championship
An oft quoted claim of recent months has been for the Championship’s status as the fifth richest League in Europe and if this isn’t necessarily reflected in the quality of the goods on offer, that Derby County can attract an average gate of more than 26,000, Hull City shell out £21 million in wages for 2010-11, and Leicester City approach £18 million in net transfer fee spend is evidence of …
Great Football League teams 34: Derby County 1986-7
Part 34 of our Great Teams series sees us welcome Jonathan Rodgers, a long time fan of Derby County. Here, he recalls one of the great Baseball Ground campaigns - always a fiendishly difficult place to visit as an away fan and a place that simply oozed character, history and tradition. Jonathan can be followed on Twitter at @popsider
It’s started already. Ten months of undoubted, solid progress for Derby …
The Monday Profile: Claude Davis
The furore surrounding Lyon’s astounding 7-1 win in Zagreb last week puts one in mind of the perhaps the most anomalous sequence of results in this season’s Football League. In September, warmly tipped Crawley Town followed up a 6-0 hiding at Morecambe with a 3-0 home battering by Swindon. Having begun existence in the League well, these results were far from expectedand everything that has happened since makes …
Ben: Sounds like an interesting read - and a useful companion-piece to Tony...
sean smith: Brilliant article. Shared. COYS...
Steve: C.f. Phil Neville on MOTD2 talking about Rosicky's audacious blind pas...
Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
