Tag Archives: 2008/9

Birmingham scrape a win over dominating Derby

By Si | Published: Tuesday 27 January, 2009
Birmingham City 1 Derby County 0 After a week of Cup matches against Manchester United and Nottingham Forest, Derby had to change focus back to the more important task of improving their league performance with a trip to St Andrews to face promotion-chasing Birmingham. Derby pretty much dominated the entire first half, seeing Kris Commons [...]
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Derby and Forest fight for an FA Cup replay

By Si | Published: Sunday 25 January, 2009
Derby County 1 Nottingham Forest 1 Derby had a difficult week ahead of them this week with two very important Cup fixtures lined up. After Man Utd knocked Derby out of the Carling Cup on Tuesday night, Derby had to concentrate on beating arch rivals Nottingham Forest to progress to the 5th round of the [...]
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Man Utd destroy Derby’s hopes for Carling Cup glory

By Si | Published: Sunday 25 January, 2009
Manchester United 4 Derby County 2 (4-3 agg) After Kris Commons gave Derby the edge over Manchester United in the first leg of the Carling Cup, expectations were high for a similar performance on their return journey to Old Trafford. Nigel Clough’s first game in charge against QPR wasn’t particularly successful so there was a [...]
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QPR beat Derby at Clough’s first game in charge

By Si | Published: Sunday 18 January, 2009
Derby County 0 Queens Park Rangers 2 Nigel Clough must have been ecstatic with Derby’s Carling Cup win over Manchester United last week, expecting to see a new lease of life in Derby’s performance. His expectations against QPR could only have been more of the same, if not more. Rob Hulse and Kris Commons both [...]
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Derby beat Forest Green in FA Cup 3rd Round

By Si | Published: Saturday 3 January, 2009
Forest Green Rovers 3 Derby County 4 With Derby County making excellent progress in the less popular Carling Cup – facing Manchester United in the semi-final later in the week – any success in the FA Cup was just the icing on the cake. Nonetheless, facing non-league Forest Green shouldn’t have been a huge problem. [...]
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Paul Jewell resigns as Derby manager

By Si | Published: Monday 29 December, 2008
After another beating for Derby from Ipswich at the weekend, it was obviously too much for then manager Paul Jewell as he has thrown in the towel and resigned from his post. Jewell witnessed his side’s defeat after heading the team in the Premiership and Championship for 50 games. With only seven wins from that [...]
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