The draw was held for the quarter finals of the Carling League Cup at lunchtime this Saturday and all eyes from Derby were on ball number four.

With five Premiership teams in the line-up - including Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspurs, Blackburn and Stoke City - chances were on Derby had a tough game ahead with some tough competition. Saying that, Burnley did the Championship teams proud earlier in the week by beating current holders Chelsea in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out. It was anybody’s cup now!

So imagine our delight when fellow Midlanders Stoke City got pulled from the draw just before our beloved Derby County.

The clash will be held at Britannia Stadium on Tuesday 2nd December 2008 at 7.45pm. Ticket details are still to be finalised but you can be sure thousands of Derby fans will be heading up the A50 to Stoke that evening for a night of goals, tears and celebrations (hopefully, in favour of Derby).

Come on you Potters - we’ll have you!

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• carling cup
• draw
• Fixtures
• league cup
• quarter finals
• stoke city

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This morning at 10am on the dot, the new fixtures for the 2008/9 season for most English and Scottish leagues were released.

Derby’s opening game is against Doncaster Rovers at home and the two games against bitter rivals Nottingham F*rest are obviously important fixtures to Derby fans.

As much as we would love to publish the entire fixture list right here, a small and rather annoying agency known as the Football DataCo who work very closely with the money-grabbing FA are now asking for nearly £22,500 for the rights to publish fixtures. How they can justify this cost for publicly available information is beyond us but there isn’t a lot we can do about it for the time-being.

For the full fixture list, check out either the official Derby County website (who don’t need to pay the premium as they are the official club website) or BBC Sport Online (who just use the license payers money instead).

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• 2008
• 2009
• bbc
• Championship
• fa
• Fixtures
• football dataco
• schedule
• times

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