Monthly Archives: November 2008

Reading continue their promotion campaign by dominating Derby

Reading 3 Derby County 0 After the successful result at Brighton earlier in the week, Derby were on a high and determined to continue their recent run of impressive results with their trip to Reading. Unfortunately, it just wasn’t to be. Brothers Noel and Stephen Hunt opened the scoreline for Reading during some sloppy defending [...]
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Emmanuel Villa hits hat-trick to beat Brighton

Brighton Hove Albion 1 Derby County 4 Derby’s Carling Cup campaign has gone from strength to strength after a delayed schedule the other month so the long awaited journey to Brighton certainly had high expectations. After 28 minutes, Emmanuel Villa commenced his show-stopping performance with the opening goal after John Sullivan struggled to hold Przemyslaw [...]
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Emanuel Villa scores at both ends against Forest

Derby 1 Nottingham Forest 1 Since the start of the season, this was one of the biggest fixtures on Derby’s schedule – facing up against arch rivals Nottingham Forest, both joining the Championship this season from either end of the Football League. The nerves were obviously taking over at the start of the game as [...]
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