uncle_rico
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Must be getting a bit worried. got some tough games coming up 
Derby
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futureboy
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I've been watching their results, and those around them, just as keenly as Boro's results this season. Since we've nothing to play for, and haven't had for a while, I thought a bit of Schadenfreude would pass the time nicely.
Wycombe and Wednesday look doomed, which only leaves one place, so we'd need Rotherham and Coventry to step up. Great win for Rotherham tonight, and I'd gladly surrender 3pts to them next Wednesday if it sent Derby down.
Wycombe and Wednesday look doomed, which only leaves one place, so we'd need Rotherham and Coventry to step up. Great win for Rotherham tonight, and I'd gladly surrender 3pts to them next Wednesday if it sent Derby down.
r00fie1
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Havent seen the other results but you`re right; Rotherham havent had the rub of the green, what with covid cancellations an that. A no-nonsense club - no swank like Derby or some others. Owls are in it deep. Gareth Ainsworth said Wycombe had come along to "give it a go". His club has no money, so they have done well to get to the Championship in the first place.
Derby are an irritant. Their new owner is promising to get them into the Prem "big club" "back where we belong"...blah blah [usual media speak]. No sympathy for them if they drop into Division Three.
atypical_boro
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Used to quite like them as a club but the way fans tried to laud it when they were doing all the ânearlyâ cheating was embarrassing. Itâs been great watching them struggle although I wouldnât want them to go out of business obviously.
nowthen
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Havenât had the rub of the green? Fans of other clubs down there would argue that. They apparently had quite a few injuries when those games kept being cancelled.
bear66
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Who was injured?
TheYorkshireTerrier
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Be funny as if they go down given their new owner has came in promising them the world.
BoroMart
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Never liked them since the 3-0 nil and you f....d it up game. Where at 3 nil down at home to us, they decided to boot us off the pitch and the ref allowed them. They even didn't give it back when we put it out for an injury. Bad sports, hope they drop.
r00fie1
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New Derby owner aiming to take Forest's arch-rivals into Europe
Erik Alonso has told of his ambitions to take the Rams back to the Premier League but it doesn't stop there as the Reds' rivals prepare for a new era
www.nottinghampost.com
New owner reveals 'big' dream for Nottingham Forest's arch-rivals Derby County
Erik Alonso has told of his ambitions to take the Rams back to the Premier League but it doesn't stop there as the Reds' rivals prepare for a new era
Derby County's prospective new owner Erik Alonso has targeted Champions League football as he announced his ambitions for the Rams.
The Spanish businessman has agreed to purchase the club from current chairman Mel Morris having worked briefly as an adviser to Sheffield Wednesday.
And he has not only pledged to try to take the Rams back to the Premier League but also football's elite European competition.
"My goal is to make Derby big again and get back to the Premier League as soon as possible," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"The eventual goal is the Champions League. I dream big.
"I will not bring [Lionel] Messi or Cristiano [Ronaldo] but we have to get a good squad. For sure we will make a squad to fight to get promoted back to the Premier League."
Derby are currently languishing at the wrong end of the Championship in a season dominated by off-field matters with the club having seen a takeover over by Deventio Holdings abandoned last month.
The No Limits Sports Limited company is now waiting to pass the Football League owners and directors' test before the deal can go ahead.
And Alonso says he has no plans to change Wayne Rooney as manager once he is in the hot seat.
"Wayne Rooney was a legend as a player. Now he's doing very well as a coach and he will have all the support from me," Alonso said.
"I have already spoken to him, I said let's focus on staying in the league and then we can talk about next season."
The last time Derby County had a decent Manager and a decent side:
nowthen
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Rotherham United receive quadruple injury boost
ROTHERHAM UNITED manager Paul Warne has confirmed that Jamie Lindsay and Chiedozie Ogbene are in the reckoning for the Millers' Good Friday game at Millwall - with Clark Robertson and Joe Mattock also closing in on a first-team return.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
Archiestephens_elbow
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Derby have only won 11 premier league points in 19 years
r00fie1
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Is that the lowest Prem points total or was that Sunlun?
Boro_Legend
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Rooney results has been awful.
hewielewie
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Didn't 4 of those points come against Newcastle?
r00fie1
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Starting with no. 7 up to No 1.
thefootballfaithful.com
In 2018/19 we witnessed two of the worst, statistically speaking, in the history of the Premier League, as Fulham and Huddersfield Town battled it out for the title of worst in the division.
By seasonâs end, Huddersfield won, in a manner of speaking.
These may not necessarily be the very worst clubs we have seen since 1992 â Wolves of 2012 and QPR from 2013 would give these guys a run for their money â but thatâs a list for another day. In any case, these teams are in the conversation regardless.
The Premier League clubs with the lowest points totals ever:
Watfordâs campaign last season was a bit of a throwback to previous awful stints in the Premier League. Aside from the golden age of manager Graham Taylor and chairman Elton John in the seventies and eighties, theyâve rarely impressed in the top flight.
This is one such occasion, which saw the Hertfordshire outfit relegated with a then-record low points total for a Premier League club. Two 1-0 victories over Chelsea and Liverpool were the highlight of a dismal season that witnessed just six league wins.
It started out so well for Norwich City last season; two wins from their opening five games saw them get off to a better start than their fellow promotion clubs, who both stayed up, powered by a goal glut from Teemu Pukki which saw them score nine goals â so where did it go wrong?
Despite an impressive 3-2 win over Manchester City in September, the Canaries were just never able to stem the flow of goals going the other way. They invested nothing in their defence last summer, while their midfield were useless at stopping attacks at the source.
On top of that, the tactical approach of Daniel Farke only made things worse. Norwich chose to play attacking football despite their defensive weaknesses, which is fine if you score the requisite amount of goals to counteract the ones you concede. But they didnât get even close, scoring 26 goals in 38 games.
They played some attractive football at times, but it was of no use to their chances of survival. In fact, it actively harmed them. They do, though, have some talented young players, such as Emi Buendia, Todd Cantwell and Max Aarons, who will surely find other clubs sharpish.
Norwich were probably the best 20th-placed of the Premier League era, which might be the worst consolation prize ever.
The best thing about this season is that itâs not even the worst one Sunderland has suffered. Peter Reid was sacked by October, and the recruitment committee, headed solely by Howard Wilkinson, to find a new manager decided on⌠Howard Wilkinson.
The ex-Leeds boss was gone by March, after winning just two league games, to be replaced by Mick McCarthy, who oversaw the clubâs relegation back to the second tier.
A brilliant 2-1 win over Liverpool in December was the highlight of the season, but they failed to win another game for the rest of the campaign, setting a Premier League record with 15 consecutive defeats.
* In February 2003, Sunderland looked to be in serious relegation trouble. The Black Cats were in the bottom three and hadnât won since surprising Liverpool FC two months earlier. However, the home faithful still believed they could record three points against Charlton Athletic. No side had recorded more away wins in the 2002-2003 season at this stage than Charlton. They had every reason to be confident of chalking up another three points on Wearside. However, they were about to get a huge helping hand from their opponents.
There were four goals scored in the match and all of them were scored by Sunderland. Unfortunately, three of them were for Charlton! A horrific eight-minute spell saw the Addicks into a 3-0 lead without them needing to score themselves past Sunderland goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.
Charlton took the lead after 24 minutes. Mark Fishâs weak effort took two deflections on its way into Sorensenâs net. The right heel of defender Stephen Wright got the final touch. One own goal in a match can be considered as unfortunate. Two own goals look rather silly. Five minutes later, Chris Powellâs shot was stopped by Sorensen but came off Michael Proctor and trickled into the net. Worse was to come.
Sunderlandâs horrific treble was completed by Proctor again. From another Charlton corner, a flick-on at the near post came off Proctorâs back who had turned his back away from the ball. It spun into the net to complete a hat-trick of own goals.
The Tim Sherwood experience lasted until late October, at which point he had won precisely one league game.
Remi Garde took over in November and, to his eternal credit, doubled that record. To be fair to the Frenchman, there was no saving a club that had been rotting from the inside for years thanks to dreadful financial mismanagement over an extended period.
Highlight of the season has to be Joleon Lescott tweeting a picture of a fancy car after Villa were thrashed 6-0 by Liverpool in February. He tried to explain it away by saying he âaccidentallyâ sent it while driving. Sure.
Following two magical seasons in which the Terriers gained a miraculous promotion, followed by an even more miraculous survival in the top flight, it finally all came apart last season.
Huddersfield didnât taste victory until November, when they defeated fellow relegation battlers Fulham 1-0 in a god awful contest, and by January David Wagner had left the club he had steered to unimaginable heights.
They managed to avoid the ignominy of being the first top flight team to not score ten or more away goals in a campaign after they secured a shock 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford.
High point of the season had to be when a Sky Sports reporter made his way through the crowd to greet the clubâs new coach, Jan Siewert. Only it wasnât him at all. It was âMartin from Wakefieldâ. Awkward.
If you thought the 2003 version of Sunderland was bad, just wait until you see the 2005-06 model!
The Black Cats extended their record-breaking losing streak to 20 games at the start of the season, setting the tone for the rest of the campaign.
By Christmas they had attained one win and a mere seven points. At the time they set a new low for points gained and would only secure their third win of the season against Fulham long after they were relegated from the division.
On the bright side, their relegation led to Roy Keane taking over the following season, leading them back to the Premier League by winning the EFL Championship. His appointment gave much-needed stability to the club, until Ellis Short took over the organisation and ruined it all.
TROPHY WINNERS:
If you google âworst premier league teams everâ, the Wikipedia page for Derby Countyâs 2008-09 season comes up on the front page of results. Thatâs how definitive their badness was that season.
The Rams broke a host of records that season, each one more unwanted than the last: the longest run of games (32) without a win; lowest points total (11) since the introduction of 3 points for a win; the record for the fewest wins (1) in a Premier League season; they are also the only team to have been relegated from the EPL in March, and just the second in the post-war era.
That solitary win came in September against Newcastle United, with whom they also drew later in the season, meaning 36% of their points from that campaign were won against the Magpies.
Derby have at least one accolade to brag about!!!!
The seven lowest points totals in Premier League history
The so-called Best League In The World⢠has had some pretty terrible teams in it over the years, but usually thereâs just one big stinker in the bunch per season.
The Premier League clubs with the lowest points totals ever
The teams who disgraced the Premier League with their presence by playing atrocious football and barely being able to scratch a few wins together.
thefootballfaithful.com
In 2018/19 we witnessed two of the worst, statistically speaking, in the history of the Premier League, as Fulham and Huddersfield Town battled it out for the title of worst in the division.
By seasonâs end, Huddersfield won, in a manner of speaking.
These may not necessarily be the very worst clubs we have seen since 1992 â Wolves of 2012 and QPR from 2013 would give these guys a run for their money â but thatâs a list for another day. In any case, these teams are in the conversation regardless.
The Premier League clubs with the lowest points totals ever:
7. Watford (1999-2000)
Points: 24 | Goal Difference: -42Watfordâs campaign last season was a bit of a throwback to previous awful stints in the Premier League. Aside from the golden age of manager Graham Taylor and chairman Elton John in the seventies and eighties, theyâve rarely impressed in the top flight.
This is one such occasion, which saw the Hertfordshire outfit relegated with a then-record low points total for a Premier League club. Two 1-0 victories over Chelsea and Liverpool were the highlight of a dismal season that witnessed just six league wins.
6. Norwich City (2019/20)
Points: 21 | Goal Difference: -49It started out so well for Norwich City last season; two wins from their opening five games saw them get off to a better start than their fellow promotion clubs, who both stayed up, powered by a goal glut from Teemu Pukki which saw them score nine goals â so where did it go wrong?
Despite an impressive 3-2 win over Manchester City in September, the Canaries were just never able to stem the flow of goals going the other way. They invested nothing in their defence last summer, while their midfield were useless at stopping attacks at the source.
On top of that, the tactical approach of Daniel Farke only made things worse. Norwich chose to play attacking football despite their defensive weaknesses, which is fine if you score the requisite amount of goals to counteract the ones you concede. But they didnât get even close, scoring 26 goals in 38 games.
They played some attractive football at times, but it was of no use to their chances of survival. In fact, it actively harmed them. They do, though, have some talented young players, such as Emi Buendia, Todd Cantwell and Max Aarons, who will surely find other clubs sharpish.
Norwich were probably the best 20th-placed of the Premier League era, which might be the worst consolation prize ever.
5. Sunderland (2002-03)
Points: 19 | Goal Difference: -44The best thing about this season is that itâs not even the worst one Sunderland has suffered. Peter Reid was sacked by October, and the recruitment committee, headed solely by Howard Wilkinson, to find a new manager decided on⌠Howard Wilkinson.
The ex-Leeds boss was gone by March, after winning just two league games, to be replaced by Mick McCarthy, who oversaw the clubâs relegation back to the second tier.
A brilliant 2-1 win over Liverpool in December was the highlight of the season, but they failed to win another game for the rest of the campaign, setting a Premier League record with 15 consecutive defeats.
Sunderlandâs own goal treble (February 2003)
* In February 2003, Sunderland looked to be in serious relegation trouble. The Black Cats were in the bottom three and hadnât won since surprising Liverpool FC two months earlier. However, the home faithful still believed they could record three points against Charlton Athletic. No side had recorded more away wins in the 2002-2003 season at this stage than Charlton. They had every reason to be confident of chalking up another three points on Wearside. However, they were about to get a huge helping hand from their opponents.
There were four goals scored in the match and all of them were scored by Sunderland. Unfortunately, three of them were for Charlton! A horrific eight-minute spell saw the Addicks into a 3-0 lead without them needing to score themselves past Sunderland goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.
Charlton took the lead after 24 minutes. Mark Fishâs weak effort took two deflections on its way into Sorensenâs net. The right heel of defender Stephen Wright got the final touch. One own goal in a match can be considered as unfortunate. Two own goals look rather silly. Five minutes later, Chris Powellâs shot was stopped by Sorensen but came off Michael Proctor and trickled into the net. Worse was to come.
Sunderlandâs horrific treble was completed by Proctor again. From another Charlton corner, a flick-on at the near post came off Proctorâs back who had turned his back away from the ball. It spun into the net to complete a hat-trick of own goals.
4. Aston Villa (2015-16)
Points: 17 | Goal Difference: -49The Tim Sherwood experience lasted until late October, at which point he had won precisely one league game.
Remi Garde took over in November and, to his eternal credit, doubled that record. To be fair to the Frenchman, there was no saving a club that had been rotting from the inside for years thanks to dreadful financial mismanagement over an extended period.
Highlight of the season has to be Joleon Lescott tweeting a picture of a fancy car after Villa were thrashed 6-0 by Liverpool in February. He tried to explain it away by saying he âaccidentallyâ sent it while driving. Sure.
3. Huddersfield Town (2018/19)
Points: 16 | Goal Difference: -54Following two magical seasons in which the Terriers gained a miraculous promotion, followed by an even more miraculous survival in the top flight, it finally all came apart last season.
Huddersfield didnât taste victory until November, when they defeated fellow relegation battlers Fulham 1-0 in a god awful contest, and by January David Wagner had left the club he had steered to unimaginable heights.
They managed to avoid the ignominy of being the first top flight team to not score ten or more away goals in a campaign after they secured a shock 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford.
High point of the season had to be when a Sky Sports reporter made his way through the crowd to greet the clubâs new coach, Jan Siewert. Only it wasnât him at all. It was âMartin from Wakefieldâ. Awkward.
2. Sunderland (2005/06)
Points: 15 | Goal Difference: -43If you thought the 2003 version of Sunderland was bad, just wait until you see the 2005-06 model!
The Black Cats extended their record-breaking losing streak to 20 games at the start of the season, setting the tone for the rest of the campaign.
By Christmas they had attained one win and a mere seven points. At the time they set a new low for points gained and would only secure their third win of the season against Fulham long after they were relegated from the division.
On the bright side, their relegation led to Roy Keane taking over the following season, leading them back to the Premier League by winning the EFL Championship. His appointment gave much-needed stability to the club, until Ellis Short took over the organisation and ruined it all.
TROPHY WINNERS:
1. Derby County (2007-08)
Points: 11 | Goal Difference: -69If you google âworst premier league teams everâ, the Wikipedia page for Derby Countyâs 2008-09 season comes up on the front page of results. Thatâs how definitive their badness was that season.
The Rams broke a host of records that season, each one more unwanted than the last: the longest run of games (32) without a win; lowest points total (11) since the introduction of 3 points for a win; the record for the fewest wins (1) in a Premier League season; they are also the only team to have been relegated from the EPL in March, and just the second in the post-war era.
That solitary win came in September against Newcastle United, with whom they also drew later in the season, meaning 36% of their points from that campaign were won against the Magpies.
Derby have at least one accolade to brag about!!!!
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