Derby County, champions of England twice in the 1970s, Championship play-off finalists in 2014 and 2019, the club of Brian Clough, Dave Mackay and Roy McFarland, have gone into administration. [55] Striker Theo Robinson was joint top scorer with Steve Davies on 12 goals and Jamie Ward's form impressed enough to earn him a new contract. However, Brown was unable to match Burley's ability to bring in quality players on a restricted budget, and was further weakened when Grzegorz Rasiak was sold under his nose to Tottenham Hotspur on the last day of the August Transfer Window, not giving him time to bring in a replacement. Whilst the media optimistically predicted a push for a playoff place[44][45] Derby once again struggled against relegation for much of the season, before a run of just two defeats in the final 10 fixtures saw the club finish in 14th, their third highest finish in their respective division in the previous ten years. Murphy managed just 7 victories in his 35 games in charge of Derby, whilst adding 300,000 Derek Hales and 175,000 Gerry Daly to the team and oversaw a finish of just 15th, the club's lowest since they had returned to the top flight. Docherty was constantly engaged in the transfer market whilst at Derby, but the only truly successful capture was Steve Buckley, a 163,000 signing from Luton Town who was Derbys first choice leftback for the next 8 years. Another former Derby favourite, Iigo Idiakez, missed the decisive penalty to see Derby through to the newly completed Wembley Stadium to face off against West Bromwich Albion in the 2007 Football League Championship play-off Final. Smith's cosmopolitan side, built as he felt there was "very little market for British players" in the increasingly import soaked Premiership,[13] recorded two consecutive top ten finishes in the 199798 (9th) and 199899 (8th) Premier League seasons, the first time the club had achieved this since Dave MacKay in the mid-1970s and flirted with qualification for Europe on both occasions. However, the club entered the Playoffs without the presence of key duo Rasiak and Idiakez both unavailable through injury and a 20 defeat in the first leg away to Preston North End proved impossible to overturn in the second leg at Pride Park, which finished 00 in front of a crowd of over 31,000. Despite this disappointment, the club maintained a healthy tilt at the league title and were well in the race until March, when George dislocated his shoulder in a 11 draw at home to Stoke City saw the striker miss the run-in, with Derby taking just 6 points from the remaining 14 and finishing the season in fourth, 7 points behind winners Liverpool. Although the club never fell into the bottom three during the campaign (the lowest position was 20th) it spent just six fixtures in the top half of the table, only one of which was achieved after August. Recently it has come to my attention that meetings have been held, important decisions taken and documents signed without my knowledge. In reality though, the campaign was disastrous as years of financial mismanagement caught up with Derby and both the Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise issued winding up petitions on the club. Derby's upturn in form had also sparked an upturn in attendances, which had fallen dramatically during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Detroit, MI May 1, 1975 Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY (101st Kentucky Derby Concert) May 2, 1975 Robinson Auditorium, Little Rock, AR May 3, 1975 Lambuth University . 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. Derby finished the season 12th in the league, 11 points off the play-off players, with Nigel Clough being satisfied with the performances of the team, stating a lack of firepower as the reason why they fell short and a target to improve in 201213. Docherty was unpopular amongst fans now used to success and it was with a sense of relief when he resigned in May 1979 to take over at Q.P.R. Despite interest from Westley in taking the position of manager, former Preston North End boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County's new permanent manager, having taken Preston North End into the playoffs in the previous two seasons. With chairman Lionel Pickering's increased frustration at no return on his investment, the purse strings were tightened and McFarland was unable to buy suitable replacements, instead blooding youth products such as Dean Sturridge, Russell Hoult and Lee Carsley to fill the gaps created by the departures. The 199899 season was Jim Smith's Derby County peak, as the financial demands of Premier League football began to catch up with them. The 29-year-old and his family have . The club also finished League runners-up twice in the 1930s, and won the FA Cup in 1946 . A refinancing scheme was put in place which saw Pride Park sold to the "mysterious"[18] Panama-based ABC Corporation and the club paying rent of 1m a year to play there, which local journalist Gerald Mortimer described as "an affront.. to those who put everything into building (the ground)."[18]. 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. As an invitational, the player's participation in the competition is not officially recorded in the club's records but the tournament did give Derby their first cup win since 1946, with a 41 win over Manchester United in the final at The Baseball Ground. Derby ( Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District. The third of these wins, 31 away to Bolton Wanderers looked like pointing towards survival, but it proved to be Derby's last win of the season as they proceeded to lose their next seven games on the trot, the sixth of which, 02 at Liverpool, confirmed relegation after a 6-year stay in the top flight. Carlin, brought from Sheffield United for 60,000 as the final piece of Clough's jigsaw, made his debut in the fifth game of the season, a 22 home draw with Hull City and from there the club lost just three of its remaining 37 fixtures, including winning the final 9, a club record. With money tight, Clough was forced to cobble together a team from free transfers and loan deals ahead of the 200910 season, with 14 players signing temporary deals over the season and only Shaun Barker and Dean Moxey of the nine permanent signings arriving for fees, despite almost 3m being made in player sales (including 1.5m for Emanuel Villa). What may just strike a distant chord with Benitez is Clough's dysfunctional relationship with Longson, his chairman at Derby County. Following a 30 capitulation away to title rivals Leeds United following an inconsistent period of form which saw 5 wins and 6 defeats from 11 fixtures, Clough savaged his squad and produced the desired effect Derby lost just 3 of their remaining 19 fixtures and did enough to hold off both Leeds United and Liverpool to claim the title. Whereas Clough built his Championship winning team on discipline and a solid defence, Mackay's 19741975 side relied on its attacking power to overwhelm its opponents. Since Taylor had left the club 9 years previously he had won two European Cups and the League with Nottingham Forest, before retiring. A crucial Easter victory over Leeds United, 20 with goals from John O'Hare and a Norman Hunter own goal, was vital but a defeat by Manchester City in City's last and Derby's penultimate match of the campaign left the title race wide open between Derby, Liverpool and Leeds. Smith sold them all, to Everton, Sheffield Wednesday and Coventry City respectively, raising 4.5m in the process. The Derbyshire evening telegraph summed up the season as being one in which "with a few exceptions, (Derby) have competed in all the games and yet too often they have come out on the wrong end of the result having been the architects of their own downfall. [3] Derby's European adventure came at the expense of their league campaign, with a run of just 3 wins in 11 towards the end of the season contributing to a disappointing seventh-placed finish in the club's first ever title defence, as they finished the 197273 First Division, 14 points behind eventual winners Liverpool. Whilst several players, such as Malcolm Christie, bought from Nuneaton Borough for 50,000 and eventually registering 30 goals in 129 appearances for the club over 5 years, Richard Jackson and Paul Boertien (both of whom spent nearly a decade at the club), were successfully captured from lower league sides, Smith's previous golden touch in the transfer market had appeared to desert him, as players such as Bjorn Otto Bragstad, Con Blatsis, and Daniele Daino where bought and barely registered on the field, with safety only guaranteed on the penultimate day of the 200001 FA Premier League season; Malcolm Christie's goal the difference in a 10 win away to Manchester United. Consisting of players returning from injury (Russell Anderson, Miles Addison), players on the fringe of the first-team squad (Ben Pringle, Lee Croft) and academy prospects (Callum Ball, Jeff Hendrick) they retained The Central League Division One Central Section, taking 33 points from a possible 42 and scoring 35 goals in the process. 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The first two seasons at The Pride Park Stadium were the peak of Jim Smith's time at Derby County. From the start of April to mid march, Derby picked up 14 points out a possible 21 which lifted Derby to 11th in the table, 5 points off the play-offs with 4 games remaining, Derby manager Nigel Clough however ruled out a play-off place, wishing there was more the 4 games left as the club were showing great form. A hard-running midfielder with perceptive passing ability, Gemmill joined Derby in September 1970 from Preston North End for a bargain 60,000. He eventually put the club up for sale in September 1990, putting it into limbo as it was unable to buy players or even bring any in on loan. To maintain the momentum of winning the Championship, Mackay added more firepower to his side with the 100,000 capture of Charlie George from Arsenal. In one of the greatest nights in the club's history, Derby swept aside Benfica 30 in front of 38,100 fans and then held their nerve in the return leg to record a 00 draw at the Estdio da Luz in front of 75,000 (becoming only the second club in European football history, after Ajax, to keep a clean sheet against Benfica over two legs) to win 30 on aggregate and advance to the quarter finals. 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,.

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