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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Ellafella in The latest from the club via Chris Coles   
    This may not age well. ?
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Josh in What will our punishment be?   
    We all get given season tickets for next season. 
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Rev in El DerbyCo   
    51% fan ownership.
    Although 100% fan ownership hasn't worked out too well!
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Carnero in El DerbyCo   
    Well that sounds remarkably sensible.
    I don't believe a word of it!
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to MACKWORTHRAM in Abu Derby County   
    17 days ago. Stephen Pearce came on Radio Derby. 
    Said all was ok. Players would be paid imminently. 
    No reason to doubt the takeover. We talk to the new owners at least once a day. 
    The players were paid exactly 2 weeks later. 
    There has been absolutely nothing from the club since.
    If they are speaking to these new owners at least twice a day. What on earth are they talking about? Genuinely. All that's left is to pay. 
    Why is this still being dragged out?
    Lies. Lies. Lies. 
     
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to JuanFloEvraTheCocu'sNesta in Abu Derby County   
    Simple question I'd be asking the BZG lot right now, 
    "if you can't find the cash for the takeover how do you expect to finance the club on an ongoing basis?" 
    I suspect the answer will be to asset strip, as I can't really see any other way of them being able to do it. 
    We need to sack these jokers off as soon as possible, they will be the ruin of us. 
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Nuwtfly in Abu Derby County   
    The craziest thing is: this is all Bobby Zamora’s fault 
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Mr. P in Abu Derby County   
    It’s time...

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    Mills_DCFC reacted to i-Ram in Abu Derby County   
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to Andrew3000 in Super- fan Chan-young Lee   
    Just wanted to celebrate this kid who has introduced himself in the  rams around the world section of this forum. Many will know of his super-quick goal clips provided on Twitter, this South Korean lad appeared recently on Rams Review Podcast (where he politely tolerated being called Lee the whole time, which is his surname/family name)
    Somewhat bizzarely, he became a passionate Ram since the play-off final against QPR (must be drawn towards injustice and tragedy) and gets up at 3 or 4am to watch matches.
    He also writes pieces promoting our club in South Korea.  I'm not on Twitter but I'm sure many have welcomed him already. Hopefully we can reach out and help him visit Pride Park one day. I think he will feature more on ramsreview pod so a relationship is developing there.  Hope the club are aware too and might assist.
     
     
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    Mills_DCFC reacted to loweman2 in The Forgotten Man !   
    Jim Walker the forgotten man
    As many of you know I have been for the last 18 months meeting up with the old brigade, the proper DCFC legends, the ones that put us on the map in footballing terms, the ones that made us the best team in England and got us to the European Cup semi finals, the teams of 71/72 and 74/75.
    It started off as way to spend time with my Dad who was a bit lost after the loss of my mum, he is a season ticket holder now and was back in the day so I started off out on a journey that has lead us to meet most of them, one of them remains elusive and one didn’t wish to participate.
    All of them have been fantastic, eager to tell stories of the great Brian Clough and the amazing fortunes of Derby County who in those bleak years of three day weeks, power blackouts, strikes and Rolls Royce nearly going under taking thousands of local jobs with it gave the people of Derby something to be proud of.
    Upon meeting one of those legends, Jim Walker I was particularly struck by how at peace he was with the world, very relaxed, very friendly and by far the best story teller of them all.
    Jim had not long ago lost his wife to illness so immediately him and my dad had something in common other than the love of football, he made us very welcome and gave us an open invite to go round when ever to continue with the tales.
    Now most people may remember Jim as the guy who was signed by Clough & Taylor from non league football to play for Derby County and was a major part of the team that won promotion from division two in 1968/69.
    He lost his place in the team to John Mcgovern but captained the reserves and stepped in when required to cover injuries of suspensions, this meant that he played only a few games in the 1971/72 season but it was his goal in a 1-0 win against Crystal Palace in late march that gave Derby both points and if you remember we won the league and finished first above dirty Leeds who were just one point behind and had a greater goal difference, so in effect Jim scored the goal that won us the First Division Championship.
    Aswell as a footballer Jim is probably better known as the Aston Villa physio, he was there for around twenty years and served under many managers including Graham Taylor, Ron Atkinson, Brian Little and John Gregory, he was also the man charged with looking after Paul McGrath for many years both on and off the pitch and is spoken of in very high regard in Pauls autobiography.
    He had a private practice at the Belfry for the golfers and was also the go to man at the NEC when any pop stars suffered an injury or needed attention from a physio, he worked with George Michael, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Michael Hutchence and Kylie to name a few hence him having so many fantastic stories.
    Jim has also had illnesses this however does not dampen his spirit or take a smile from his face.
    One thing that I was amazed to hear that Jim did not receive a medal for winning the league title despite being only one of sixteen players in that 71/72 season to have donned the shirt and scoring such a valuable goal.
    When ever you see the pictures of the team celebrating and holding up their medals jim does not have one.
    I approached Andy Ellis the club historian and the writer of many Derby County books and the fount of all knowledge and he confirmed it.
    So we the approached the club and asked if they would support an application to Gordon Taylor of the PFA to ask if he would inturn support an application to the football league to present Jim with the medal that he should have received 46 years ago.
    The club agreed and they sent the letter to Gordon Taylor who gave it his blessing and the approach was then made to the football league, this was back in February this year after the ball was started rolling in June of 2017 so it took a while.
    I am delighted to say that the agreement was given and Derby County approached the very same jewellers who had made the original ones to make one for Jim, to the exact specifications of the original medals and in the same box and made from 9ct gold with all of the hall marks.
    For some reason the club at this time can not be seen to publicly present Jim with the medal which is a great sadness as I thought that he was going to be able to step out on the pitch at Pride Park on the opening home game against Leeds (quite fitting as he stopped them winning the league with his goal), it is a litigious matter so I will comment no further other than to say that they did everything that they could.
    So to wrap up the story I had the great honour of going to Jims house today with my dad and my son and presenting him with his long overdue medal, he had no idea that it was coming and to say that he was over whelmed is an understatement.
    It was great to see his face and to have the privilege to do something like that, I had the medal at my house for a while but obviously didn’t want to post any pictures until now as it was a secret.
    Not very often that you get to present a league championship winning medal on behalf of Derby County and to one of the few from those great days and can be called the legends.
    We are hoping that Jim will still be able to have amore public presentation at sometime in the season at Pride Park when what ever issues are resolved.
    Up the Rams !!
     



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