I’ve just received an email from Tim at The Football Fans Census about a quick survey they’re currently running to find out more information about football fans and their opinions of the football league and your football team, i.e. Derby County:

Fans Survey - Derby County

We’re running a short survey to gauge how optimistic fans feel about the forthcoming season, how Derby fans rate your manager, players and what you thought of the teams style of play towards the end of last season.

The survey is just 5 questions long and will only take a moment to complete. If you could forward the link to anyone you think would like to take part that would be much appreciated.

Click here to take part: Football Fans Census

http://www.footballfanscensus.com/surveys/questions.html?page=1&survey_id=298

Many thanks for your support

The FFC Team

If you’ve got a spare five minutes, pop along and make your voice heard. It could help towards the future of the football league, or even change the state of play with the behemoth that is The Football Association.

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Among the pre-season friendlies, Derby will be expecting a visit from UEFA Cup Finalists, Espanyol.

Derby County vs Espanyol

Saturday 4th August 2007

3.00pm

Pride Park

This is such a high profile game that is bound to attract some foreign interest for the new Premiership Derby County. While Espanyol only reached 11th in Spain’s La Liga (the top division), they only lost out to Seville on penalties after a 2-2 draw, proof if any that they are a team that are potentially the best in Europe.

To keep tensions high, we will also be facing some local rivals in the pre-season friendly campaign against the likes of Ilkeston Town, Stafford Rangers, Macclesfield Town and Crewe Alexandra. A clash with Nottingham Forest is also on the cards but still needs confirming. All this PLUS a tour of Italy should get the Derby boys ready for an intense year ahead in the Premiership.

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For any die hard fans who want to plan ahead for the new season, the new Premiership fixtures have just been released on the BBC’s website.

Unfortunately, due to copyright issues, we are not allowed to publish fixtures (thanks FA!) - it costs £4000 for a licence to document any football fixtures, and thats just for a year. Whether this is a ploy just for the FA to make more money out of the not-so-free Internet is yet to be seen. In the mean time, maybe you should just go on over to the BBC for your fix.

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After all the celebrations of promotion have calmed down, it seems like an ideal time to apologise for the lack of attention on the website over the last few months.

Obviously, there has been much news for Derby County since the last update:

1. Derby finished third in the table, missing out on automatic promotion, having to resort to a tense Playoff battle with Southampton, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton.
2. Winning the first leg away at Southampton 2-1.
3. Confirming a Playoff Final place on penalties after Southampton levelled the score 4-4 in the home game.
4. Playing a tough but exhilarating Playoff Final at the new Wembley, beating West Brom 1-0 to win promotion to the Premiership and approximately £60 million in Sky TV and sponsorships deals
5. Not knowing who will be playing or managing the Premiership Derby County team
6. Launching a new club badge, with a touch of old and new in there, to be included on all the new Adidas merchandise coming our way over the Summer

There will also be a few changes to the website over the coming months to reflect the change for the team. We have several plans for the website such as creating a dedicated discussion forum (hopefully moving all those in conversation on the Ram Chants page somewhere a little more appropriate), loads of new content and hopefully (if time allows) a fresh new look to the site.

We are also looking for anyone who is interested in writing for the website. This is purely a voluntary position at the moment but, if revenue picks up on adverts, there will be rewards available. The kind of content we are looking for includes:

• Derby County match reviews
• Derby County team news
• football related articles
• Anything else you feel is relevant to Derby County

If you are interested in becoming an author on this website, please get in contact, either by leaving a comment below or emailing admin (at) super rams (dot) com.

Finally, we would just like to congratulate Derby County for the promotion to the Premiership. It took a lot of determination and solid playing to achieve this momentous occasion and they deserve all the glory they have got. Enjoy the Summer break lads and prove to all those cynics out there that we aren’t in the Premiership for just the year.

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Derby won 2-1 at Barnsley to extend their lead at the top of the Coca-Cola Championship and pile on the agony for the relegation-threatened Tykes - but the real talking point at Oakwell was a sickening injury to David Lucas.

Rams win to stretch their lead at the top (Derby Evening Telegraph)

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A brace from Steve Howard and a stunning goal by Giles Barnes helped fire Derby back to the summit of the Coca-Cola Championship with a 3-1 win over promotion rivals Cardiff at Pride Park.

Rams win to top league again (Derby Evening Telegraph)

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