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Rams Start Strongly Against the Posh

Derby County 2 – Peterborough United 1 Derby’s season opener witnessed what the media labelled the battle of the ‘greats’, Clough Jnr vs. Ferguson Jnr.  Both promising young managers, burdened with the baggage of their fathers managerial success; the opening game of the season was the ideal opportunity to improve their standing.  Clough was notably [...]
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Manchester United outplay and knock out upbeat Derby

Derby County 1 Manchester United 4 Derby have faced Manchester United three times this season, all in crucial Cup fixtures. It took a tense return leg for Man Utd to beat Derby in the Carling Cup so hopes were high for Derby to improve on their previous attempt against the world’s finest. Man Utd dominate [...]
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Birmingham scrape a win over dominating Derby

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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QPR beat Derby at Clough’s first game in charge

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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Jonathan Walters heads in for Ipswich at Derby

Derby County 0 Ipswich Town 1 Derby’s performance in December has been quite ropey having only beaten Watford 1-0 at home but losing most our away games so a game on home turf was in much need, hopefully giving the Rams some much needed Pride Park support against Ipswich. Unfortunately, the game didn’t start too [...]
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Derby beat Stoke in League Cup Quarter Final

Stoke City 0 Derby County 1 While Derby’s league campaign has had mixed results, the League Cup was a completely different affair. Derby haven’t reached the quarter finals of the league cup in 20 odd years so they had already exceeded expectations. It was now time to step it up a gear against Premiership side, [...]
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