After defeating Czechoslovakia's Spartak Trnava 21 over two legs, the Rams met Italian giants Juventus: at the end of the 31 defeat in Turin, Clough accused the rivals to have bribed the match officials and called the Italians "cheating bastards" ,[2] despite the Bianconeri will prove later unrelated to any attempt to combine. During this period the Rams did secure their biggest ever victory, with a 120 home demolition of Finn Harps on 15 September 1976, with Kevin Hector grabbing 5 and Leighton James, a club record 310,000 capture from Burnley, and Charlie George each grabbing hat-tricks (Rioch scored the other). [53] However defeats to Middlesbrough and Cardiff City in 4 days ended the Derby's play-off chances. What may just strike a distant chord with Benitez is Clough's dysfunctional relationship with Longson, his chairman at Derby County. Nixon was President at the time. He was replaced by his assistant Roy McFarland (who became the only man to manage the club permanently in two separate spells) who steered the club's to a second playoff campaign. George had a brilliant season for the Rams, earning both the club's Player of the Year trophy and the Midlands Player of the Season trophy and helped himself to 24 goals in all competitions. Here are 14 rare photos of Texas in the 1970s. Within two days of Davies's dismissal, on 26 November 2007, Derby appointed highly rated former Wigan manager Paul Jewell. Former Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson was appointed head coach in May 2016. Of the eight loanees, only Everton's Osman made a significant impact[17] and without him Derby could well have been relegated, as the club collected almost half of its 52 points from his 17 games. With Derby clear in the high court, Taylor was fired as manager following a 51 defeat at Barnsley, with the club having won just 31 points from 33 games, and McFarland was appointed until the end of the season. Idiakez was voted the club's Player of the Season and Rasiak finished top scorer (with 17 goals) as Derby confounded their form of the last 5 years to grab a fourth-placed finish in the newly rebranded Football League Championship and entrance into the 200405 Playoffs. Between December 1990 and April 1991 the club went a club record 20 games without a win and equalled the worst ever home league defeat when they crashed 71 at home to Liverpool. For all his faults, however, Docherty had kept an increasingly ailing Derby County side in the top flight and this proved impossible for Colin Addison the following season. Nathan Tyson, signed from local rivals Forest however failed to score in 24 appearances, Chris Maguire struggled to break into the first team and was loaned out to Portsmouth for the final two months of the season. In the event of the match Ashley Ward, who finished the season with 9 goals, 2 behind leading scorer Dean Sturridge. Derby County's former chairman expressed his frustration with Brian Clough in the unseen letter. [43] and equalled Loughborough's 108-year Football League record of going through an entire season with only one win. A hard-running midfielder with perceptive passing ability, Gemmill joined Derby in September 1970 from Preston North End for a bargain 60,000. Prior offices. Davies praised the players "great courage", emphasising the importance of scoring the first goal and making note of how organised and well-prepared his side had been, adding promotion was "a dream come true. Prior to this blow, the club was on a run of just 1 defeat in 11 and where scoring goals for fun the return of 75 goals was the club's highest in a top-flight campaign since the 1930s, with Bruce Rioch, Charlie George and Francis Lee all reaching double figures. After over a decade in the second tier of English football, Brian Clough took charge at Derby and kickstarted a revolution at the club; it went on to win the Football League First Division twice in the 1970s and reach the European Cup semi finals in 1973 before rapidly declining back to the third tier and near financial meltdown within ten years of its second Championship. [69] Derby finished fifth in the league, qualifying for the play-offs, but lost 32 on aggregate to eventual winners Hull in semi finals. Steve Powell also became Derby's youngest ever player, a record he held for almost 30 years, when he made his debut in a Texaco Cup tie against Stoke City aged just 16 years and 30 days. He did not run for re-election in 2018. Facing off against fellow big spenders Blackburn Rovers, Derby fell at the semi final stage as a 21 win at The Baseball Ground wasn't enough to overcome a 42 defeat at Ewood Park in the first leg and they crashed out 45 on aggregate and missed out on the opportunity to be a part of the inaugural Premier League, instead spending the 199293 season in the renamed Division One. [36] Meanwhile, results on the pitch weren't improving, with another poor performance away to Aston Villa (02) being followed by a 50 home defeat against a West Ham side ravaged by injuries. The club had also reached the FA Cup semi finals for the first time since winning the competition in 1946, but without the inspiration of George they crashed 20 against Manchester United at Hillsborough and any talk of "The Double", not a fanciful notion given the club's form, disappeared. Its first league triumph in the 1971-72 season came just three . Having just clinched promotion to Division One with an exciting Newcastle United side, Arthur Cox left St James' Park on a point of contract and Derby wasted no time in appointing him as manager in May 1984. After a 21 home defeat to Blackburn Rovers[73] saw Derby slip into the relegation zone, Pearson was suspended on 27 September 2016 whilst the club undertook an internal investigation into his management after a training ground altercation with Mel Morris compounded already growing concerns over his management methods[74] Assistant manager Chris Powell took over in a caretaker role for two games until Pearson was sacked on 8 October. In the event Derby could only record a 9th-place finish and McFarland, in the knowledge his contract was not going to be renewed, said his goodbye's in the penultimate match of the season, a 21 home defeat at Southend United, ending a 28-year association with the club, broken only by a two-year spell as player-manager at Bradford City. [57] The plans included five cafes/restaurants, two convenience stores and 2,000 square metres of office space. Oklahoma House of Representatives District 74. The club also finished League runners-up twice in the 1930s, and won the FA Cup in 1946 . With a more settled side than he was previously allowed Burley only used 24 players, 7 of whom were involved in 10 or less games and a strong mix of academy graduates (Lee Grant, Pablo Mills, Tom Huddlestone, Marcus Tudgay) and inspired purchases (Rasiak, Idiakez, Tommy Smith) Derby enjoyed a splendid second half to the season, recording just 6 defeats in their final 24 fixtures, including a run of 1 defeat in 14, and equalled the club record for away wins in a season and setting a club record of 6 consecutive away victories. Although the club rallied under McFarland, securing 4 wins and a draw from these final nine fixtures, they were relegated to the now-national Third Division in 1984, their centenary year, in 20th place, 5 points from safety. After a 00 draw at Broomfield Park, Derby overcame their Scottish opponents 21 at the Baseball Ground, with Roger Davies, signed for 12,000 the previous summer from non-league Worcester City and who scored many a crucial goal in the successful reserve team, grabbing the winner in a 21 victory to give Derby their second cup win in as many season. In the 201011 season, the club entered the season with odds of 25/1 for the title, the same as the previous year, 61 to be promoted and 81 to be relegated. McClaren rejuvenated the Rams, taking them from 20th place to 7th in 10 weeks with 29 points from 12 games, including a seven match winning streak. After a 11 draw at The Baseball Ground, Derby found themselves 31 down with 10 minutes to go in the replay at White Hart Lane, before Roger Davies grabbed a brace to take the game to extra time, before completing his hat-trick as Derby ran out 53 winners. At one stage touted as a future England manager, Gregory had been in place at Aston Villa but his relationship with Villa chairman Doug Ellis led him to walk out to take charge at Derby. After starting the season with a 33 draw with old rivals Leeds United, Derby lost only one of their opening seven fixtures, recording a creditable 11 home draw with Champions Manchester United as well as a 21 win at Blackburn Rovers and a 10 win over Sunderland. Mackay's departure triggered a revolving managerial door at Derby over the next 8 years. His remit was simple: avoid relegation. Fixture congestion meant that Leeds and Liverpool both played their final matches of their season after the 1972 FA Cup Final, in which Leeds had beaten Arsenal, with Leeds needing a draw and Liverpool a win to overtake Derby. A chartered accountant by profession, he became chairman of the finance committee, a role he energetically embraced and to which he made positive contributions. The true extent of the club's financial woes were born out when they could not afford to pay Telford United their share of the gate receipts after and FA Cup 4th Round tie (the club eventually reached the Quarter finals, their best run for seven years) and Stuart Webb was appointed a director and set about acquiring shares and striving to attract investors to the club and cottoned onto media proprietor Robert Maxwell, who was owner of Oxford United. [33] Despite this however, Derby made a disastrous start to the Premier League 2007-08 season and following their 60 defeat by 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. Derby County have confirmed the US-based General Sports and Entertainment (GSE) group as the new owners of the club. That is why an influx of new faces is needed in this most important of summers to make sure they move forward next season. However, a run of just 3 defeats in their last 20 games, which saw the club take 30 points from a possible 40, helped urge Derby up the title and the title was sealed after a 00 draw away to Leicester combined with Ipswich Town drawing at Manchester City, confirmed Derby as champions for the second time in four years. Burley was replaced by Phil Brown, who had successfully been Assistant Manager at Bolton Wanderers. It was revealed that the debt had risen to 52million, with the Gadsby-led consortium injecting more than 20million, paying off the ABC Corporation loan and negotiated a deal over the remaining debt with the Co-operative Bank, as well as returning Pride Park to club ownership. Despite such attacking prowess, and the setting of a new club record for 12 away wins in a season, Derby could only finish 3rd in the 199192 Second Division and missed out on automatic promotion by 2 points. There was also the continued introduction of academy players to the side, with Tom Huddlestone and Marcus Tudgay making significant contributions alongside players such as Lee Grant and Lee Holmes. However, a 02 defeat at home to Wimbledon (Derby's first home defeat in 23 league fixtures, equalling the club record set 67 years previously) showed a need for more experience and the inspired capture of Paul McGrath proved a key capture. "The board told me I could then have some of the cash to buy players, and they've kept their word. The club was founded in 1884 as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. County Chair: The application must be filed between November 13, 2021 and 6:00 p.m. on December 13, 2021. It was also higher than the average gate of seven Premier League clubs. The County Chair is the leader of the local party in each county throughout the state. George grabbed another goal in the return leg at the Santiago Bernabu Stadium but Derby conceded 5 and crashed out 56 on aggregate. In May 2021, the club, now managed by Wayne Rooney, narrowly avoided relegation to League One. Although shorn of the star names of the previous decade, Derby had the ever consistent Steve Buckley in the ranks, alongside a striking combination of Alan Biley and Dave Swindlehurst, who both broke double figures for the season, as well as the experience of McFarland and Steve Powell. [75], "Mel Morris (is) a micro-manager who demands success and is not known for his patience - four managers in just over a year testify to that. Although the improved end to the season had given fresh hope that the impetus of the late 1990s could be revived, such plans were dashed when the club took 14 matches to record its first league win of the 200001 season beating Bradford City 10. The ownership trio of Sleightholme, Keith and Harding, dubbed "The Three Amigos", came under increasing criticism from the Derby support, with two separate supporters groups set up in protest of their ownership in the form of the RamsTrust and the Rams Protest Group (RPG). The Derby-born businessman took a 22% stake in the Rams in . The club were 3rd in the table at the time. After taking just 6 points from 14 matches Davies left by mutual consent[37] The move was seen to be more as a result of Davies publicly questioning Adam Pearson's chairmanship of the club in a post-match interview following a 20 home defeat by Chelsea than actual results (as Pearson publicly gave Davies his backing a few weeks previously), with some supporters suggesting Davies engineered his dismissal as he was unable to turn the club around. A rise back to the top followed towards the end of the 1980s and start of the 1990s before a spell of flitting between top flight and second-tier football followed over the next 20 years. They came to despise one another although it was still Clough . Form declined badly and key players departed Paul Goddard was sold to Millwall for 800,000 whilst injuries bit into a squad increasingly short of depth. With the team of Taylor and McFarland leading the team to an impressive second half of the season, hopes were raised for the 198384 campaign. The recruitment of Terry Hennessey, Derby's first 100,000 player, from Nottingham Forest in February restored some impetus in the side and the club rallied, finishing the season 11 unbeaten, including a sequence of 6 consecutive wins, and earning a fourth placed finish, which would have claimed the club its first ever European campaign as entrants in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup but a joint FA and League disciplinary panel found the club guilty of 'gross negligence' after an unexplained gap of 3,000 in season-ticket income and payment of fees to Dave Mackay outside of the terms of his contract. A purple patch of form in February saw the club end local rivals Nottingham Forest's 19 match unbeaten run, inflict eventual-Champions Newcastle United's biggest defeat of the season (30) and hit five in a match for the first time in three years when they edged out Preston North End 53 at Pride Park, before a run of just three wins in twelve through the end of February until the end of April, ensured that safety was not achieved until the 44th fixture of the season after a 11 draw at home to relegation rivals Crystal Palace. [88], On 17 September 2021, the club's board of directors announced that the club was to go into administration. League Fixtures (1970-1979) In the 1970s, it twice won the First Division and competed in European competitions, reaching the European Cup semi-finals. Gregory's replacement (initially on a short-term contract until the end of the season but then appointed full-time) was former Ipswich Town boss George Burley. Dino Zoff in goal for Juventus. McClaren was sacked on 12 March 2017 following a 30 defeat away to Brighton, which included a performance that Mel Morris described as being "far from what we expect to see from those wearing a Derby County shirt. The form soon dipped again and, after a run of just 2 wins in 11 matches which left the club 18th in the table, Jewell quit as manager on 28 December 2008 after just over a year in the job. 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Derby's first ever European match came with a home tie against Yugoslavia's eljezniar Sarajevo, which they won 20 with goals from Roy McFarland and Archie Gemmil. One of these matches, a 52 victory over Sheffield Wednesday in which Baiano scored twice, was the club's first victory at Hillsborough since September 1936. "[14] Another former Rams hero. [49][50], In the 201112 season Derby started the season well, winning their first 4 league games in August, which was also the club's best league start since the 190506 season. The season also saw Roy McFarland released by the club after 13 years and he left to become Player-manager at Bradford City. Other late signings, such as John Barton and John McAlle were also vital, and an ageing Kevin Hector was still contributing to the cause; he grabbed his 200th Derby goal in a 23 League Cup 2nd Round defeat by West Ham and made his final appearance for the club, his 589th (a club record), in a 32 victory over Watford on the final day of the season at the Baseball Ground and notched his 201st and final goal for the club with the opener, only Steve Bloomer having more goals for the club,.