More Memries of Frank Lampard's Derby County

[grafikhaus]

Fuck me. 'Shit show featuring ex-Blades', 'Owlstalk', 'Harvey Gilmour', 'Ched Evans', 'Usain Bolt', it's getting Like The Star on here...

I did one of these before our most recent meeting with The Rams on January 1st 2018, a game at Pride Park which we drew 1-1 to follow up our 3-1 win at Bramall Lane earlier in the season.

An extremely soft penalty to Derby saw us trail at half-time before Leon Clarke gave us a deserved share of the points.

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Memries of Derby

So what has changed since our New Years Day meeting? Well, the Blades go into this game at the very top of The Championship, while Derby are in eighth place – just one point outside the play-off positions.

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Derby’s – and The Championships – top scorer in the 2017-18 season Matěj Vydra has left to join Burnley. Vydra got 21 League goals last season.

Cameron Jerome has also left, to join Turkish side Göztepe, and pig player Sam Winnall remains on loan at Derby.
At the end of the 2017-18 season, TV Golden Boy Frank Lampard was appointed Derby manager, replacing Gary Rowett, who had taken The Rams to the Championship play-off semi-finals (where they lost 2-1 on aggregate to Fulham) just two weeks before his dismissal and Lampard’s appointment.

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To date, our League results against Derby read:

Home: P: 51 W: 30 D: 9 L: 12 F: 90 A: 59

Away: P: 51 W: 13 D: 7 L: 31 F: 60 A: 102

Our recent results against Derby:

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Full Sheffield United v Derby County history

Form Guide: Based on the last six league games, the Blades only trail West Brom with 13 points from a possible 18.

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Derby however sit in a lowly 17th spot with just six points from a possible last eighteen.

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Full Championship Form Guide

Top Scorers:

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Men to Watch:

As ever – and on paper – Derby have quality all over the pitch but special attention will be required to deal with Mason Mount who is on a season-long loan from parent club Chelsea.

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Other fun facts:

Paul Coutts and Kieron Freeman both used to play for Derby. The ludicrously-overrated Darren Bent was released by Derby last Summer, is currently on loan at Burton but is rumoured to be wanted by Ipswich Town.

On the same day as the Blades play Derby (20th October), Macclesfield Town host Carlisle United in League 2.

The Silkmen are on the brink of equalling an all-time English league record for consecutive games without a victory - although their winless run spans seven years, dating back to when they were relegated in 2012.

Their barren sequence currently stands at 35 matches, which is just one short of Derby's winless run of 36 games between September 2007 and August 2008.

After a very poor start to the 2007-08 season, Derby manager Billy Davies left the club on 26 November to be replaced by former Wigan Athletic and Sheffield Wednesday manager Paul Jewell. Jewell failed to turn things around for Derby and the club spent most of the season at the foot of the table, recording a club and top-flight record run of 32 league games without a win.

Following their 6–0 defeat to Liverpool on 1 September 2007, Irish bookmakers Paddy Power decided to pay out on the club to be relegated after just five games of the new season (!!!). The repercussions of this saw Trevor Birch leave his position as Chief Executive on 19 October.

Derby were officially relegated on 29 March after their 2–2 home draw with fellow strugglers Fulham and Birmingham City's 3–1 victory over Manchester City left them 19 points away from safety with only 6 games left. This made Derby the first club in Premiership history to be relegated in March and only the second in post-war English Football league history. They also accumulated the league's lowest points total since the introduction of 3 points for a win with just 11 points, as well as the record for the fewest wins in a Premier League season with just 1 victory in 38 games (A 1-0 home win against Newcastle on 17th September 2007*).

Final 2007-08 Premier League table (bottom 5):

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In the 2008-09 season (in The Championship), following the two week break for international fixtures, Derby were at home to Sheffield United. The game generated much media coverage as it was approaching a year since Derby's last league win, a run which saw the club break the English league record for most matches without a win. On 13 September 2008, four days short of the anniversary of the 1–0 win over Newcastle*, Rob Hulse scored against his former club as Derby ran out 2–1 winners (Blades scorer, Darius Henderson), earning Paul Jewell his first league win as Derby boss at his 27th attempt.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Memories? Us v. Derby, 4th round of the FA Cup. 25th January 1986. Lost 1-0. Sat in the G block of the south stand, they brought a lot, it was 'lively'. Tony Kenworthy was poor.

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[Yewsman]

26 January 1991. We were bottom of Division 1. Had been anchored there and didn't win a match until December (beat Notts Forest 3-2 I think). Derby were the team above us. We won 1-0. Goal scored by Glynn Hodges who had just arrived on loan from Palace.

 

[guancheblade]

26 January 1991. We were bottom of Division 1. Had been anchored there and didn't win a match until December (beat Notts Forest 3-2 I think). Derby were the team above us. We won 1-0. Goal scored by Glynn Hodges who had just arrived on loan from Palace.

Watch him fall over the advertising hoardings after he scores

 

[Cheshire Cat]

26 January 1991. We were bottom of Division 1. Had been anchored there and didn't win a match until December (beat Notts Forest 3-2 I think). Derby were the team above us. We won 1-0. Goal scored by Glynn Hodges who had just arrived on loan from Palace.

Very fond memories of leaving the kop singing “We’re not bottom any more!”

 

[CarlingBlade]

26 January 1991. We were bottom of Division 1. Had been anchored there and didn't win a match until December (beat Notts Forest 3-2 I think). Derby were the team above us. We won 1-0. Goal scored by Glynn Hodges who had just arrived on loan from Palace.

Bloody great match for the 13yr old me, stood on the Kop, things had looked doomed but I think this was a match that gave the fans hope.

I recall Shilton getting a 10 rating in the newspaper on the Sunday.

 

[brownie4583]

My 1st Blades game v Derby was in 1975 I think,it ended 1-1 and Charlie George scored for them and they brought loads

 

[Silent Blade]

My 1st Blades game v Derby was in 1975 I think,it ended 1-1 and Charlie George scored for them and they brought loads

Lovely sunshine weather, new kits, South Stand officially open, playing against the League champions (we finished only 4 points behind them) despite TC being unavailable due to a ban. Jim Brown saved a Bruce Rioch penalty, Keith Eddy gives us the lead with a penalty midway in the 2nd half. Charlie George equalised late on with a stunning equaliser at the Kop End. After the game I was proud that our ground had eventually become 4 sided and I thought we would be playing in the top division for many more years!

 

[Muttley]

My 1st Blades game v Derby was in 1975 I think,it ended 1-1 and Charlie George scored for them and they brought loads

The season we went down? My first game as a season ticket holder at 9 yrs old. I often blame myself for the curse that seems to have hung over us since then.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

I remember an away game at The Baseball Ground (late 80s or early 90s?) Midweek game I think and we won 3-2. Most memorable because Sean Bean was mingling with the fans that evening.

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember an away game at The Baseball Ground (late 80s or early 90s?) Midweek game I think and we won 3-2. Most memorable because Sean Bean was mingling with the fans that evening.

Saturday afternoon

 

[HighfieldBlade]

Saturday afternoon

Thanks for the correction. Maybe it was a Saturday in autumn or winter because I remember the floodlights were on. The mind plays tricks.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Anyone else go to the rearranged fixture circa 2002 when it was fucking Baltic and we lost 2-0?

 

[grafikhaus]

As seen on this thread. I should have made it clearer that I've already done one of these for Derby.

Coming in about a week - Memries of Stoke - all new stuff as we haven't played them in a serious match for almost 11 years.

Lovely sunshine weather, new kits, South Stand officially open, playing against the League champions (we finished only 4 points behind them) despite TC being unavailable due to a ban. Jim Brown saved a Bruce Rioch penalty, Keith Eddy gives us the lead with a penalty midway in the 2nd half. Charlie George equalised late on with a stunning equaliser at the Kop End. After the game I was proud that our ground had eventually become 4 sided and I thought we would be playing in the top division for many more years!

That year me, my dad, my mum and my brother all bought ST's for the 'new stand'. Sadly, my mum and dad are no longer with us. Sadly, my brother is.

 

[TJB.]

Fuck me. 'Shit show featuring ex-Blades', 'Owlstalk', 'Harvey Gilmour', 'Ched Evans', 'Usain Bolt', it's getting Like The Star on here...

Two of those threads are of my own creation and they're far better than owt The Star has come up with in the last few years.

So...

 

[I should coco]

Memories? Us v. Derby, 4th round of the FA Cup. 25th January 1986. Lost 1-0. Sat in the G block of the south stand, they brought a lot, it was 'lively'

I think they were in the 3rd division and brought about 7k. I knew a Derby fan who shit himself afterwards when he saw a car of fellow Derby fans get turned on its roof in the backstreets between BL and London Road.

I recall Derby away in 1990 when we got a point. First time I saw Vinnie Jones and he wasn't exactly welcomed as a saving hero. Partly his DirtyLeeds background and partly his general shithousery, but I remember plenty of 'cockney bastard' chants from OUR fans.

Only in S2, I suppose......

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I think they were in the 3rd division and brought about 7k. I knew a Derby fan who shit himself afterwards when he saw a car of fellow Derby fans get turned on its roof in the backstreets between BL and London Road.

I recall Derby away in 1990 when we got a point. First time I saw Vinnie Jones and he wasn't exactly welcomed as a saving hero. Partly his DirtyLeeds background and partly his general shithousery, but I remember plenty of 'cockney bastard' chants from OUR fans.

Only in S2, I suppose......

Yep, they were in the league below us. They near enough filled both the upper & lower. I seem to remember half way through the game a load of motorcycle coppers, big burly men in high viz gear coming into the south stand and standing/sitting in the gangways between G & H.

 

[Jon Bon II]

Best Blades kit ever, by a country mile!

 

[diplomat]

Bloody great match for the 13yr old me, stood on the Kop, things had looked doomed but I think this was a match that gave the fans hope.

I recall Shilton getting a 10 rating in the newspaper on the Sunday.

I’d have been 15 and for the Forest game stood over half way back and then went to meet a school friend near the front at half time. We won so did it again for the derby game. And every game thereafter as though I was the reason we kept winning!

I remember shilton being a bit of a lead boots in the World Cup so thought we’d have a chance of a few goals but he was great. A bit like watching your dad in net but made several decent saves. He really must have been incredible ten or fifteen years earlier. Any older forum members remember him at Forest ?

 

[diplomat]

Anyone else go to the rearranged fixture circa 2002 when it was fucking Baltic and we lost 2-0?

Yep. Coldest game ever. My seat had ice on it. I had a ridiculous duvet coat on so was toasty from my neck to my waist but absolutely bitterly cold everywhere else. I seem to remember it was deadly walking to the ground with thick ice everywhere.

Did McCloud score both. I think I left just as he scored the second. Something I never do but was worried my feet might fall off if I didn’t move. It was injury time I think.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Anyone else go to the rearranged fixture circa 2002 when it was fucking Baltic and we lost 2-0?

Yep. Coldest game ever. My seat had ice on it. I had a ridiculous duvet coat on so was toasty from my neck to my waist but absolutely bitterly cold everywhere else. I seem to remember it was deadly walking to the ground with thick ice everywhere.

Did McCloud score both. I think I left just as he scored the second. Something I never do but was worried my feet might fall off if I didn’t move. It was injury time I think.

There are two matches that get confused/misremembered.

30 October 2002
Derby 2-1 Blades

28 January 2004
Derby 2-0 Blades

The one when it was freezing was the latter.

Izale McLeod scored for Derby in both fixtures.

 

[Silent Blade]

I remember shilton being a bit of a lead boots in the World Cup so thought we’d have a chance of a few goals but he was great. A bit like watching your dad in net but made several decent saves. He really must have been incredible ten or fifteen years earlier. Any older forum members remember him at Forest ?

I remember him playing for Leicester, Wendy (in Len Badger's testimonial) and Stoke too. He was brilliant but Woodward often scored against him. The only time he played for Forest against us was in John Harris' testimonial match in October 1977. The 1971 promotion side lost 6-1 to Forest. Who scored for the 1971 promotion team? Yes, you have guessed it right, it was Woodward again!

 

[Groucho Blade]

We always seemed to get beaten at the Baseball Ground...when I went anyway. And it was always wet...and we usually got chased.

 

[bornablade]

I remember him playing for Leicester, Wendy (in Len Badger's testimonial) and Stoke too. He was brilliant but Woodward often scored against him. The only time he played for Forest against us was in John Harris' testimonial match in October 1977. The 1971 promotion side lost 6-1 to Forest. Who scored for the 1971 promotion team? Yes, you have guessed it right, it was Woodward again!

The 1971 promotion side won at Forest 3-2. Part of that incredible start to the season.

Thousands of Blades there that day.

 

[coaxingstar71]

I remember him playing for Leicester, Wendy (in Len Badger's testimonial) and Stoke too. He was brilliant but Woodward often scored against him. The only time he played for Forest against us was in John Harris' testimonial match in October 1977. The 1971 promotion side lost 6-1 to Forest. Who scored for the 1971 promotion team? Yes, you have guessed it right, it was Woodward again!

Woody even scored direct from a corner against him when Shilton was at Leicester didn't he? Seen the clip many many times.

 

[grafikhaus]

I’d have been 15 and for the Forest game stood over half way back and then went to meet a school friend near the front at half time. We won so did it again for the derby game. And every game thereafter as though I was the reason we kept winning!

I remember shilton being a bit of a lead boots in the World Cup so thought we’d have a chance of a few goals but he was great. A bit like watching your dad in net but made several decent saves. He really must have been incredible ten or fifteen years earlier. Any older forum members remember him at Forest ?

I missed our 3-1 win at Hillsborough on 11th March 1992 as I was in Plymouth doing an exhibition. TBF, I'd put the match out of my mind as the pigs had a bloody decent team back then and we didn't appear to have a prayer. Bobby Davison changed all that . I was in a restaurant while the match was on and rang my dad for the result. 'What do you think?' my dad said in a miserable tone. 'Lost?' I asked. 'WE'VE BLOODY WON 3-1!!!' said my dad. Back into the restaurant. 'Waiter! A bottle of Champagne!' (all on expenses ). On the next table? Peter Shilton - then Plymouth manager. (I was also at Wembley in 1973 when England only drew 1-1 with Poland and Shilton was blamed for Poland's goal.)

 

[JJ Sefton]

26 January 1991. We were bottom of Division 1. Had been anchored there and didn't win a match until December (beat Notts Forest 3-2 I think). Derby were the team above us. We won 1-0. Goal scored by Glynn Hodges who had just arrived on loan from Palace.

My first memory of Derby. I remember Shilton had had an affair reported in the papers shortly before and people were singing "Does your missus know you're here?"

 

[JJ Sefton]

Woody even scored direct from a corner against him when Shilton was at Leicester didn't he? Seen the clip many many times.

2:30...

 

[diode_blade]

Memories? Us v. Derby, 4th round of the FA Cup. 25th January 1986. Lost 1-0. Sat in the G block of the south stand, they brought a lot, it was 'lively'. Tony Kenworthy was poor.

Yes remember that well, lots of bodies flying everywhere before and after the game... walking to and from the ground