More Memries of Frank Lampard's Derby County

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Yewsman said:
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.

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Funny thing was although we were bottom you had a feeling that something was going to happen..the Blades were playing with a "oneness" and "for each other" like they are now...Ohhh and that Florist game..........it was a feeling up until that game, was "stuff all of the rest of you we're the blades and we don't care what anyone thinks of us".
 

grafikhaus said:
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.


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.


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:


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.

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


Full Championship Form Guide

Top Scorers:

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.



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):


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.:(
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good work. thanks man
 
There was trouble before ,during & after that game ,on the lead up to the cup match some Derby lads had been stopping off in Sheff on way back from a few a away games and acting up in The Howard & Penny Black apparently being very brave when the numbers were 5-1 in their favour .
I understand they found it a little different that day
 
brownie4583 said:
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
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first game of the season. forgot my money and missed the entire first half going back to le Jordeaux.. we played well that day (from what i saw). i thought we would be right up there
 
coaxingstar71 said:
Woody even scored direct from a corner against him when Shilton was at Leicester didn't he? Seen the clip many many times.
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Woody's goals against Shilton
GOAL - v Leicester (a) 22.4.67. City's Goodfellow sent a sloppy pass on the edge of the box and Woodward nipped in to collect the ball, push it a yard and then hit a ferocious drive high into goal with Shilton helpless.
GOAL - v Leicester (h) 26.12.70. After being fouled by Cross just outside the box, Woodward bent a free kick round the wall of defenders and into the right hand corner, a shot which left Shilton stunned and stranded yards away at the other side of the goal.
GOAL - v Leicester (a) 18.9.71 Four minutes from time Woodward scored direct from a corner, which was won by Salmons. Woodward's inswinger from the left completely deceived Whitworth by the near post, and left Shilton bamboozled.
GOAL - v Leicester (h) 16.12.72. Woodward made no mistake from the penalty spot with enough power to beat Shilton who was diving the right way to his left.
GOAL - v Leicester (h) 6.10.73. Currie was brought down in the penalty area by Birchenall to give United their first spot kick of the season. The City players argued a bit at first with Birchenall in trouble with the referee but then Woodward stepped up to hit the spot kick fiercely past Shilton's left hand.
GOAL - v Stoke (a) 22.11.75. The goal came after Cammack pulled the ball back and saw it go via a deflection to Woodward, who turned brilliantly and shot fiercely into the bottom corner of the net.
 
Personally always preferred Baseball Ground to Pride Park, better atmosphere in the ,‘Subooteo’ stands but after August thevpitch than was more akin to a Padi field than having a football match on it
 
Silent Blade said:
GOAL - v Leicester (h) 26.12.70. After being fouled by Cross just outside the box, Woodward bent a free kick round the wall of defenders and into the right hand corner, a shot which left Shilton stunned and stranded yards away at the other side of the goal.
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This description reminds me of something I once heard about Woodward (which may be exaggerated or a myth). Did he once score a quickly taken freekick by hitting it just after a firework had been set off outside the ground?
 
diplomat said:
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.
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Paddy Kenny came out and lost the ball and McCloud I think scored one.

I recall leaving work in slip on type shoes (idiotic decision) and basically trying to walk from the train station to Pride Park - went down at least 4 or 5 times on sheets of ice. I was black and blue by the time the game started. The things we do for United.
 
Guesty said:
This description reminds me of something I once heard about Woodward (which may be exaggerated or a myth). Did he once score a quickly taken freekick by hitting it just after a firework had been set off outside the ground?
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I was at the BLLT for that match but have no memory of the goal. A former workmate told me of how he remembered the goal as he was in the Kop that day. He said "Woody was about to take the free kick from outside the box and then I heard a firework explosion, so I turned round to look where the explosion was and then there was a roar from the ground, so my eyes came back to the pitch but the ball was already in the net and I could see Shilton being motionless at the other side of the goal. I missed the goal!"
 
Silent Blade said:
I was at the BLLT for that match but have no memory of the goal. A former workmate told me of how he remembered the goal as he was in the Kop that day. He said "Woody was about to take the free kick from outside the box and then I heard a firework explosion, so I turned round to look where the explosion was and then there was a roar from the ground, so my eyes came back to the pitch but the ball was already in the net and I could see Shilton being motionless at the other side of the goal. I missed the goal!"
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Hmm sounds like a new free kick routine. Knill will be all over this one.. ball boy in the carpark with a firework.
 
Isn't it strange how things tie in? I mentioned the Blades v Derby FA Cup game in 85/86, and having looked on the web, the winning goal was scored by Rob Hindmarsh, who sadly died in 2002 at 41 of the the same disease that Luton Shelton now has. Also, if we'd beaten Derby, we'd have been drawn against Wednesday in the next round that season. Wednesday also played at home on the same day at the same time, SYPD would have kittens now. :)
 

Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
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.
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I don't think iv ever seen the away end fuller, the roar when they scored was deafening!
 
Nicolaus_Copernicus said:
Isn't it strange how things tie in? I mentioned the Blades v Derby FA Cup game in 85/86, and having looked on the web, the winning goal was scored by Rob Hindmarsh, who sadly died in 2002 at 41 of the the same disease that Luton Shelton now has. Also, if we'd beaten Derby, we'd have been drawn against Wednesday in the next round that season. Wednesday also played at home on the same day at the same time, SYPD would have kittens now. :)
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I thought Phil gee scored the winner? Under burridge, as I recall
 
Early 90s at Bramall Lane and stood on John St. Cant remember the score but remember they brought on Ted McMinn after he'd been out injured for ages. He came on wearing a knee support, Derby fans obv pleased he was back as they were singing his name with great joy. 10 mins later he takes a beauty of a challange and has to go off :D
 
id like to contribute but cant remember a game when we played derby apart from 3-1 victory last season & the previous 6 games are news to me. but last year. I assumed we would lose but I think that might have been the springboard for the belief. as with all there expensive signings & we outplayed them. more importantly took our chances
 
I remember the game at Pride Park under Speed where we won 1 nil playing sublime football. I thought it was the start of something special.

We got dicked 4 nil by Scunny 3 days later, Speedo buggered off to Wales and the rest as they say is history!
 
Nicolaus_Copernicus said:




Supposedly 9k for the fa cup game.
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I remember arriving in the ground for the Cup game and being amazed at the size of their support. I also remember them jumping up when they scored: Hindmarsh slid in and converted a free kick at the Lane end.

The crowd for the league game was 19,000 odd, the biggest of the season by miles.

The only bigger away support I've ever seen at the Lane is when Burnley sold out the away end and took a section of the South Stand in 1992-3 in the Cup - I think they brought 10,000.
 
Most stand out memory for me is the defeat at the mudbath when Tom McAllister saved two pens from Alan Hinton, the second one ended up being scored anyway after a goalmouth scramble.

pommpey
 
I was at Derby away during the Warnock promotion season where we won 1-0 through an Akinbiyi header first half. Memorable for several reasons...

1) Coldest day in Earth's history
2) Akinbiyi scoring a goal
3) fantastic away support
4) Had to park a million miles away, made worse by 1)
5) On the way home discovered Maccies were now doing Double Quarter Pounders
 

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