100 Owners: Number 74 – The Three Amigos (Derby County)
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Posts Tagged: "Derby County"
Match Of The Past: Derby County
We continue our series of archive videos of the clubs of the Football League Championship this morning with a club that became the champions of England twice in four years...
The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
Match Of The Midweek FA Cup Special: Crawley Town 2-1 Derby County
When the full-time whistle blew at Broadfield Stadium this evening with Steve Evans gesticulating at the referee in the background over the amount of time added on at the end...
The Grounds That Never Were: Derby County’s Wembley Of The North
In the first of an occasional new series on football grounds that never quite came to be, Ian King takes a look at an ambitious post-war scheme to move Derby...
Match Of The Week: Derby County 4-1 Watford
What, one wonders, were the expectations of Derby County supporters upon the appointment of Nigel Clough in December 2008? Easy though it is to try and draw comparisons twixt father...
English Match Of The Week: Coventry City 2-1 Derby County
In 1959, Coventry City celebrated the inauguration of the Fourth Division of the Football League by getting promoted after seven seasons in football’s basement. Within eight years they were a...
Two Legs & A Gypsy Curse: The Story Of The 1946 FA Cup
In the fourth part of our look forward to the FA Cup First Round, we take a look back at the 1945/46 competition, which saw the innovation of two-legged matches,...
DVD Review – “The Damned United” (Revisited)
Earlier this year, we sent Ted Carter to the cinema with a paper bag containing some crab paste sandwiches and a ticket for the movie version of David Peace’s 2006...
Fraud, Derby County & A Tiny Bit Of Justice
It is not often that one can say with any degree of confidence that someone in football is a crook and have evidence to back it up, but the usual...
Review: The Damned United
I have been a little unwell over the last twenty-four hours so, in lieu of being able to write anything myself, I wrapped our usual cartoonist Ted Carter in mittens,...
Stupid Boy
Upon reflection, this week probably wasn’t the best week to start reading “The Damned United”, David Peace’s outstanding debut novel about Brian Clough’s ruinous forty-four days in charge at Leeds...
Scenes From Football History – 1982/83: How Fulham Blew It
From the mid-1960s on, football grew massively as a passive spectator sport. The realisation that football could evolve as a spectator sport for people that weren’t even at the match...
In Praise Of… Brian Clough
The unveiling of a new statue of Brian Clough in Nottingham last week seems like as good a time as any to to take a quick look back at the...