Derby County F.C.
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| Full name | Derby County Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1884 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Pride Park Stadium, Derby (Capacity 33,597) |
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| Chairman |  Adam Pearson |
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| Manager | Paul Jewell |
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| 2007–08 | Premier League, 20th (relegated) |
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Derby County Football Club is a English football club based in Derby. They were relegated from Premier League in the 2007/08 season and will compete in the Football League Championship in the 2008/2009 season.
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[edit] History
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For more details on this topic, see History of Derby County F.C..
The club was formed in 1884 as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Derby initially played at the Racecourse Ground. As well as competing in a number of friendly matches and informal competitions, Derby County also entered the FA Cup. Derby County were founder members of The Football League when it was launched in 1888. In 1891 they absorbed Derby Midland F.C. Steve Bloomer, generally considered to be Derby County's best-ever player, joined the club in 1892. In 1895 the club moved to a new stadium, The Baseball Ground, which became their home for the next 102 years, and adopted their traditional colours of black and white.
On 16 April 1898, Derby appeared in their first FA Cup final at Crystal Palace, but lost 3-1. They were losing finalists again in 1899 and 1903. Derby were relegated to the Football League's Second Division for the first time in 1907, but under Jimmy Methven's management they re-signed Steve Bloomer and regained their First Division place in 1911.
In 1914 they were relegated again, but instantly won the Second Division to get promoted (though World War I meant that they had to wait until 1919 to play First Division football again). After two seasons, they were relegated yet again in 1921. However, more successful times lay ahead, instigated by Derby's promotion in 1926. The club became a formidable force, with high finishes from the late 1920s and all through the 1930s.
In the 1945-1946 season Derby got to the final of the FA Cup and won by beating Charlton Athletic 4-1 after extra time. The League restarted the following season after a break due to World War II, but Derby could not reproduce their pre-War form and were relegated in 1953. In 1955 they were relegated to the Third Division North for the first time in their history. The third tier proved easy for Derby, though: they were promoted after just two seasons.
In 1967, Brian Clough took over and led them to their greatest glory. Having clinched the influential signing of Dave Mackay, Derby were promoted to the First Division in 1969, finished fourth in 1970, got banned from competing in Europe due to financial irregularities in 1971, and won their first ever Football League Championship in 1972. Though Derby did not retain their title the following season, they did reach the semi-finals of the European Cup. They lost to Juventus in a controversial match which was subject to subsequent allegations that the Italian club had bribed the match officials, leading Clough, to call the Italians "cheating bastards".[1] Clough's frequent outspoken comments against football's establishment eventually led to him falling out with the board of directors at the club, and Clough left in 1973. Despite the departure, Derby's League success was repeated in 1974–1975 season when they won the title under Dave Mackay. However, Derby's form declined towards the end of the 1970s and they went down to the Second Division in 1980. Though they challenged well in their first season, Derby's stay in the Second Division was not a happy one and they were relegated to the Third Division in 1984.
After the relegation, the club appointed Arthur Cox to stop the rot — and stop it he did. After a two year stint in the Third Division, Cox's emerging side were promoted to the Second Division and won it at the first attempt, returning to the old First Division in 1987.
The club finished fifth in the 1988-1989 season, with the team now containing stars like Peter Shilton, Mark Wright, Dean Saunders and Ted McMinn. However, English clubs were banned from European competition at the time following the Heysel Stadium Disaster, so the Rams missed out on their place in the UEFA Cup.
A lack of further investment from chairman Robert Maxwell lead to a decline shortly after. With Maxwell soon dead, the club was relegated back to the Second Division in 1991. At this time, local newspaper businessman Lionel Pickering became the majority shareholder of the club. In 1992 Derby paid £2.5 million for Notts County's central defender Craig Short. At the time — and for five years afterwards — he was the most expensive player to be signed by a club outside the top flight.
Cox resigned in late 1993 citing health problems, and Roy McFarland returned as manager. McFarland failed to get the side anywhere near the top of the division apart from a defeat at the hands of Leicester City in the 1993–1994 play-off final and was sacked in 1995. Jim Smith was then appointed as the club's new manager. Although the season started slowly, the signing of sweeper Igor Stimac proved pivotal. Throwing his brief of 'a top-half finish' out the window, Smith guided the Rams to a second-place finish and the Premier League, now the top flight of English football.
Derby County made a strong Premiership début in the 1996–1997 season, finishing 12th in the final table. The club moved into the new 30,000-seat Pride Park Stadium for the 1997–1998 season.
Progress continued in the next two seasons, before a sudden decline in form. In 2000–2001 Derby narrowly avoided the drop, finishing 17th — one place clear of relegation.
Jim Smith resigned as manager in October 2001. He was replaced by assistant manager Colin Todd, who remained in charge for just three months before he was sacked in the aftermath of a humiliating FA Cup Third Round home defeat against Third Division strugglers Bristol Rovers. At the end of January 2002, John Gregory was appointed Derby manager. Despite a promising start, seven defeats from their final eight fixtures condemned Derby to relegation.
Derby County's relegation saw the club enter a serious financial crisis, which forced them to sell many key players. Gregory was later suspended from his managerial duties over alleged misconduct[citation needed] and former Ipswich Town boss George Burley was bought in temporarily. He later received the job on a permanent basis.
The club's parent company went into liquidation in October 2003 and Lionel Pickering gave way to a new board led by John Sleightholme, who bought the club for £1. Derby finished 20th in the 2003–2004 season, but improved dramatically in the 2004–2005 season and finished 4th in the Football League Championship, qualifying for a promotion play-off spot. They lost in the semi-finals to Preston North End.
Soon afterwards, Burley resigned citing differences between himself and the board. He was replaced by Phil Brown. Brown failed to find much success in the job, however, and was sacked in January 2006, after a bad run of results. Terry Westley, the academy coach at the time, took over first team duties until the end of the season and saved Derby from relegation.
Derby's Chairman, John Sleightholme, resigned in April 2006, saying his position had become untenable. The rest of the board followed him later that month. A popular consortium of local businessmen led by former vice-chairman Peter Gadsby bought the club, reducing its debt and returning Pride Park Stadium to the club's ownership in the process.
[edit] Recent times
In June 2006, former Preston North End boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County's new permanent manager, with Julian Darby as his first-team coach. In his first season, Davies took Derby to the Championship play-offs, where they beat Southampton on penalties in the semi-finals before defeating West Bromwich Albion 1–0 with a second-half Stephen Pearson goal at the new Wembley Stadium to secure a return to the Premier League and the associated £60m windfall.
Despite Derby's promotion however, there were persistent rumours of a row between Davies and the Managing Director Mike Horton over the appointment of an assistant for Davies. On 5 June 2007 Horton resigned from his position on the board, and he was followed shortly afterwards by Jill Marples and her husband Peter Marples. Horton claimed at the time that his departure was for family and business reasons however, whilst the Marples departure was put down to the death of a family friend in a helicopter accident [2]. With the departure of Horton and the two Marples, the remaining directors appointed 4 new members to the Board. Experienced football executive Trevor Birch came in as Chief Executive,[3], Martin Ridgeway as Financial Director & Company Secretary, John Vicars as Operations Director and Steve Coakley as Commercial Director.
In preparation for the club's return to the Premier League Davies spent the summer busily improving the playing and backroom staff. In the period between the win over West Brom and the opening game of the 2007/08 season Derby signed goalkeeper Lewis Price from Ipswich Town for around £200,000, the defenders Claude Davies from Sheffield United for £3 million and Andy Todd from Blackburn Rovers F.C. for an undisclosed fee, two American international midfielders in the shape of Hamburg's Benny Feilhaber and Eddie Lewis from Leeds United and striker Robert Earnshaw for a club record £3.5million from Norwich. [4]
In the coaching department, Derby appointed Colin Miller as Assistant First Team Coach and Craig Brown as Footballing Consultant as part of a change to the backroom staff at the club, while Billy Davies also signed a 12 month contract extension until 2010. Finally, on 6 July 2007 it was announced that David Kelly, Davies former assistant at Preston, would be joining the club as the new Assistant Manager,[5] an appointment which Davies had been pursuing for several months.
Despite this strengthening, Derby made a disastrous start to the Premier League 2007-08 season and following their 6–0 defeat to Liverpool on 1 September 2007, Irish bookmakers Paddy Power decided to pay out on the club to be relegated after just five games of the new season.[6]. The poor start saw fans accuse Gadsby and the board of failing to invest properly in players for the club. The repercussions of this saw Trevor Birch leave his position as Chief Executive at the beginning of October and, on October 29th 2007, Gadsby stepped down as Chairman to be replaced by former Hull City owner Adam Pearson. Meanwhile, results on the pitch weren't improving, with another poor performance away to Aston Villa being followed by a 5-0 home defeat against a West Ham side ravaged by injuries.
After taking just 6 points from 14 matches Davies left by mutual consent after a meeting with Adam Pearson, taking the majority of his newly assembled backroom staff with him. The move was seen to be more as a result of Davies publicly questioning Adam Pearson's chairmanship of the club in a post-match interview following a 2-0 home defeat by Chelsea than actual results (as Pearson publicly gave Davies his backing a few weeks previously), with some supporters suggesting Davies engineered his dismissal as he was unable to turn the club around. Within two days of Davies's dismissal, on November 26, 2007, Derby appointed highly rated former Wigan Athletic F.C. manager Paul Jewell.
Jewell was busy in the January 2008 transfer window, selling several players and bringing eight new players in, namely Alan Stubbs Argentine striker Emanuel Villa, ex-England international defender Danny Mills on loan from Manchester City, Blackburn midfielder Robbie Savage, French winger, Laurent Robert and Tottenham's Egyptian midfielder Hossam Ghaly on loan, Genclerbirligi's Mile Sterjovski and Rangers goalkeeper Roy Carroll. Although performances improved, results didn't, with many at the club already accepting relegation by the end of December. On January 28, 2008, it was announced that Derby had been purchased by American group General Sports and Entertainment, with Tom Glick taking the role of new President and Chief Executive.[7] Derby's relegation was confirmed on March 29, 2008, the first time a club had been relegated from the division before April and sealing the club's first immediate relegation following promotion in its history. Poor results continued: a 6-0 home defeat at the hands of Aston Villa on 12 April 2008 is the biggest defeat at Pride Park and, by the season's end they had recorded the football league's lowest points total since the introduction of 3 points for a win and equalled Loughborough's 108-year Football League record of going through an entire season with only one win.
Following the final day of the season, Jewell publicly announced his displeasure with the current squad, promising drastic changes [8]. Within four weeks of the close of the season Derby confirmed five new signings, namely Plymouth defender Paul Connolly[9] and Doncaster midfielder Paul Green on frees, Watford's Nathan Ellington on a season-long loan (with a view to a permanent deal) and free agents Jordan Stewart and ex-Nottingham Forest winger Kris Commons[10], to add to Australian midfielder Ruben Zadkovich who was signed in March, with club chairman Adam Pearson stating that he expected around another four or five players to join the club before the end of June. [11]
Five players were also allowed to leave the club, with the contracts of Michael Johnson, Lee Holmes and Marc Edworthy not being renewed following their completion, Ben Hinchcliffe's contract being terminated and club record signing Rob Earnshaw being allowed to leave for £2.65m to rivals Nottingham Forest less than a year after joining the club.
[edit] Season-by-season history
1888 Founder member of the Football League; 1907-12 Division 2; 1912-14 Division 1; 1914-15 Division 2, 1915-21 Division 1; 1921-26 Division 2; 1926-53 Division 1; 1953-55 Division 2; 1955-57 Division 3 (N); 1957-69 Division 2; 1969-80 Division 1; 1980-84 Division 2; 1984-86 Division 3; 1986-87 Division 2; 1987-91 Division 1; 1991-92 Division 2, 1992-96 Division 1, 1996-2002 Premier League; 2002-04, Division 1; 2004-07 Football League Championship; 2007-08 Premier League; 2008- Football League Championship
[edit] Kit
Derby County's original colours (right) were amber, chocolate and blue, though by the 1890s the club had adopted its now traditional colours of black and white, still in use today. The colours of away kits have varied widely, and although they are usually yellow/gold or blue, the colour of the away shirt for the 2007–08 season is black.
[edit] Kit manufacturers
- c. 1973-1979: Umbro
- 1979-1982: Le Coq Sportif
- 1981-1984: Patrick (also shirt sponsors)
- 1984-1985: Admiral
- 1985-1987: OSCA
- 1987-1993: Umbro
- 1993-1994: Bukta
- 1994-1995: Rams Pro Wear
- 1995-2001: Puma (also shirt sponsors from 1995-1998)
- 2001-2005: Erreà
- 2005-2007: Joma
- 2007-2012: Adidas
[edit] Shirt sponsors
- 1884-1980: No sponsor
- 1980-1981: BMI
- 1981-1984: Patrick (also kit manufacturers)
- 1984-1986: Bass Brewers
- 1986-1987: Sportsweek
- 1987-1992: Maxwell Communications Corporation (known by its former name, BPCC in 1987-1988)
- 1992: No sponsor
- 1992-1995: Auto Windscreens
- 1995-1998: Puma (also kit manufacturers from 1995-2001)
- 1998-2001: EDS
- 2001-2005: Marston's Pedigree
- 2005-2008: Derbyshire Building Society
[edit] Club badge
Like most old football clubs, Derby County did not initially have any badge displayed on their shirts. Their first badge was introduced in 1924. The badge consisted of a circular shield spilt into three equally-sized sections, representing the club, its fans and the area, in three equally-sized sections, all containing items traditionally associated with the city of Derby: a Tudor rose and a crown in one section, a buck in a park in the second and a ram's head in the final section. The badge was worn on the players' shirts for just two seasons before they reverted to plain shirts.
By 1934, another badge had been introduced. This time it was a traditionally-shaped shield, again with three sections. The buck in the park had been removed and the rose and the crown had been split up and now occupied a section each. The ram's head also remained and was now given the largest section of the shield. The badge never appeared on the players' shirts. The shield was modified in 1946 when the rose and crown were removed and replaced with the letters DC (Derby County) and FC (Football Club) respectively. The badge, right, was featured on to the player's shirts from its introduction onwards, though the ram's head on its own was used from the late 1960s (the full shield, however, remained the club's official logo).
A new club badge was introduced in 1971, featuring a more modern design that, with modifications, is still in use today. The badge was initially consisted of a stylised white ram facing left. The badge was first modified slightly in 1979 to include the text 'Derby County FC' under the ram (though the ram remained on its own on away kits). In 1982 the ram turned to face to the right and the text under it was removed. The ram was surrounded by a wreath of laurel and the text 'Centenary 1984-1985' was printed underneath for the club's centenary season. The laurel was removed and the text reading 'Derby County FC' returned from the next season. In 1993, the ram faced left again and the text was removed once more. From 1995, the ram faced right and was enclosed in a diamond, with a gold banner reading 'Derby County FC' underneath and the text '1884' (the year of the club's foundation) underneath that. The design was changed again in 1997 (see right): the ram faced now left and the golden banner now simply read 'Derby County'; the diamond and year of formation were removed. A decade later, in 2007, the badge was modified again (to the one seen at top of this article), with the ram (still facing left) and the text 'Est. 1884' now in the middle of a circular frame featuring 'Derby County Football Club' in gold lettering.
[edit] Stadia
Derby County have played at three different stadia:
- 1884-1895: The Racecourse Ground
- 1895-1997: The Baseball Ground
- 1997-: Pride Park Stadium
[edit] Supporters and rivalry
[edit] Rivalries
Derby County's fiercest rivals are Nottingham Forest, who are based in Nottingham, a city a few miles north-east of Derby. When the two sides meet it is known as the East Midlands Derby. In future, whenever the clubs play each other the winners will be awarded the Brian Clough Trophy. On 31 July 2007 Derby won the first ever Brian Clough Trophy after beating Nottingham Forest 2-0.[12] Leicester City, also based in the East Midlands, are also local rivals, as are Notts County, also from Nottingham.
There is also a significant amount of rivalry with Leeds United, despite Leeds not being geographically close to Derby; the rivalry is due to Derby and Leeds being two of the top English teams in the early 1970s.
[edit] Support
During the 2007-2008 Premiership season Derby County fans were repeatedly referred to as amongst the best in the county due to their loyalty despite the club's disastrous campaign. Almost every home game at Pride Park Stadium was sold out by the Derby fans and the club also had a great following away from home. The recognition included them being named fans of the season in much national coverage of the season and even winning an award from Nuts Magazine.
Statistically, the club had the 12th highest average attendance in the country, despite only having the 15th largest club ground, and were also 8th in the table for percentage of ground occupancy.
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Notable former players
- See also: Category:Derby County F.C. players
- A complete list of all the Club's former players can be found here
[edit] Player of the year (the Jack Stamps Trophy)
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It was initially announced at a fans forum conference on 11 March 2008 that the trophy would not be handed out for the 2007/08 campaign. However, this was changed when it was announced before the Aston Villa home match on April 12, 2008 that it would be held but with the Fans included as a nominee, mirroring the 2002/03 season when the fans (who had been given the number 12 squad number by then manager John Gregory) voted themselves 2nd, narrowly behind Georgi Kinkladze. The Derby fans voted for themselves in protest at the disastrous 07/08 campaign and won the trophy.
[edit] Managers
[edit] Managerial history
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[edit] Current management team
- Manager: Paul Jewell
- Assistant Manager: Chris Hutchings
- First-team Coach: Mark Seagraves
- Fitness Coach: Nigel Ashley-Jones
- Goalkeeping Coach: Gary Walsh
- Assistant Goalkeeping Coach: Alan Fettis
- Chief Scout: Bill Green
- Scout: David Hamilton
- Academy Manager: Phil Cannon
- Academy Head Coach: David Lowe
- Academy Head Scout: Mick Elliot
- Physiotherapist: Alan Tomlinson
- Assistant Physiotherapist: Ben Taylor
- Kit Managers: Gordon Guthrie, Jonathan Davidson
[edit] Board of directors
- Chairman: Andrew Appleby
- Chairman of Football Operations: Adam Pearson
- President and Chief Executive Officer: Tom Glick
- Finance Director: Martin Ridgeway
- Operations Director: John Vicars
- Commercial Director: Perry Deakin
- Non-Executive Directors: Peter Gadsby, Don Amott, Roger Faulkner
[edit] Club mascot
The club's mascot is a ram named Rammie. The Rams were named after the mascot of the Sherwood Foresters (formerly The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) which was formed three years before Derby County. See also The Derby Ram (song). Rammie emerged as a more friendly option to the club's traditional links with the British Army. At half-time staff of Derby County "Football In The Community" get small goal nets out and he acts as goalkeeper allowing children to take penalties at him. In 2005, Rammie released his first DVD, which features the character reading from Aesop's Fables in the Derbyshire countryside.
[edit] Club academy
The Moor Farm training complex at the club is one of the best in Europe, with world class training facilities. The purpose-built complex in Oakwood was built at a cost of £5.2 million and it covers fifty acres and features six full-sized training pitches plus a state of the art indoor pitch as well as a gym and a restaurant. The current first team squad includes seven players who have worked their way up through the academy up to the first team squad, namely - Giles Barnes, Lewin Nyatanga, Miles Addison, Mitchell Hanson, Matt Richards, Jason Beardsley and Paris Simmons. Other notable players to have come through the academy in recent years include England U21 Keeper Lee Camp and Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone.
[edit] Honours
Note: the leagues and divisions of English football have changed somewhat over time, so here they are grouped into their relative levels on the English football league system at the time they were won to allow easy comparison of the achievement
- Premier League and predecessors (level 1 of the English football league system)
- Football League Championship and predecessors (level 2 of the English football league system)
- Football League Second Division Champions, 1911–12, 1914–15, 1968–69, 1986–87
- Football League Second Division Runners-Up, 1925–26
- Football League First Division Runners-Up, 1995–96
- Football League Championship Play-Offs Winners, 2006–07
- Football League One and predecessors (level 3 of the English football league system)
- Football League Third Division North Champions, 1956–57
- Football League Third Division North Runners-Up, 1955–56
- League Cup
- Semi-Finalists, 1968
- European Cup
- Semi-Finalists, 1973
- Charity Shield
- Winners, 1975–76
- Texaco Cup
- Winners, 1971–72
- Watney Cup
- Winners, 1970–71
- Anglo-Italian Cup
- Runners-up, 1992–93
- Brian Clough Trophy
- Winners, July 31 2007
[edit] Club records
[edit] All-time club records
- Record league victory: 9–0 v Wolves at The Racecourse Ground, Football League First Division, 10 January 1891) & v Sheffield Wednesday at The Baseball Ground, Football League First Division, 21 January 1889)
- Record cup victory: 12–0 v Finn Harps F.C. at The Baseball Ground, UEFA Cup First Round, First Leg, 15 September 1976)
- Record defeat: 2–11 Everton at Goodison Park, FA Cup, First Round, 18 January 1890)
- Record home attendance: 41,826 against Tottenham Hotspur, Football League First Division, 20 September 1969 at the Baseball Ground
- Record league points (2 for a win): 63, Division 2, 1968-69 and Division 3 (N), 1955-56 and 1956-57.
- Record league points (3 for a win): 84, Division 3, 1985-85 and 1986-87 and Football League Championship, 2006-07
- Record league goals: 111, Division 3 (N), 1956-57
- Highest league scorer in a season: 37, Jack Bowers, Division 1, 1930-31 and Ray Straw, Division 3 (N), 1956-57
- Most league goals in total aggregate: Steve Bloomer, 292 league goals, 1892-1906 and 1910-14
- Most goals in one match: Steve Bloomer 6 v Sheffield Wednesday at The Baseball Ground Football League First Division, 21 January 1889)
- Record goal-scorer: Steve Bloomer, 332 goals, 1892-1906 and 1910-14
- Most capped player: Deon Burton (42 caps for Jamaica)[17]
- Record appearances: Kevin Hector, 486 league matches, 589 total matches
- Youngest player: Lee Holmes (15 years, 268 days, v Grimsby Town, 26 December 2002)
- Record Transfer Fee: £3.5m to Norwich City for Robert Earnshaw
- Record Fee Received: £7m from Leeds United for Seth Johnson
[edit] Sequences
- Longest sequence of League wins 9, Division 2, 15 March 1969 - 19 April 1969
- Longest sequence of League defeats: 8, Division 1, 12 December 1987 - 10 February 1988.
- Longest sequence of League draws: 6, Division 1, 26 March 1927 - 18 April 1927
- Longest sequence of unbeaten League matches: 22, Division 2 & 1, 8 March 1969 - 20 September 1969
- Longest sequence without a League win: 32, FA Premier League - 22 September 2007 - (ongoing)
[edit] References
- ^ Brian Clough obituary The Guardian, 21 September 2004
- ^ Derby County FC - The Rams from the Derby Evening Telegraph : I've rethought my life after mate's death in helicopter
- ^ Mike Horton leaves board
- ^ Derby sign Earnshaw BBC Sport Online
- ^ David Kelly appointed as Assistant Manager
- ^ "Paddy Power pays out on Derby relegation", Teamtalk.co.uk, 2007-08-31. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
- ^ General Sports and Entertainment Takeover - BBC Sport
- ^ "Jewell promises drastic changes", BBCSport.co.uk, 2008-05-12. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
- ^ "Derby snap up Plymouth defender", BBCSport.co.uk, 2008-05-15. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ^ "Derby complete deal for Commons". BBC Sport (2008-06-02). Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
- ^ "Derby complete deal for Commons" - Pearson interview Audio. BBC Sport (2008-06-02). Retrieved on 2008-06-02.
- ^ Derby win first Brian Clough Trophy
- ^ Profiles. Derby County FC. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
- ^ Derby fans' Premier League season review
- ^ Player of the Year list at Derby Evening Telegraph
- ^ FACTS AND FIGURES. Derby County F.C. (2007-08-22). Retrieved on 2007-09-09.
- ^ Includes only those caps won whilst at Derby County
[edit] External links
- DCFC.CO.UK - Official Site
- TheRams.co.uk - Derby Evening Telegraph Rams site.
- BBC Sport Derby County - BBC's Derby County section.
- Derby County History
- Derby County Shirt History
- Photo Archive
- Derby County Goal Highlights
- 1946 FA Cup Final - Complete match programme online
- Ramstrust
- Derby County Unofficial forums
- Recorded Derby County Songs and Chants
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