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The journey has nearly come to an end visiting the legends of our great club, I was never happy with how it had finished with Willie Carlin, so today I went back to see him but this time I took him one of the Ramtique limited edition medals that we had comisioned with the permission of the club and the football league to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Derby County winning the second division championship and the journey getting well and truly underway.
we decided to give Willie number eight out of a hundred as he wore the number eight shirt in that season.
willie had had his original medal stolen a number of years ago by some scum bags who robbed his house.
willie and his wife are very private people who understandably do not like strangers knocking on their door asking for photos or signatures so I made sure that I was brief and to the point.
They were really pleased with the gesture of the medal and both took a lot of time to make me very welcome in their home and Willie signed a few things for me.
they even gave me a limited edition plate.
A very lovely couple of people and one of the few real Derby County legends of 69.
Like with Jim Walker it was nice to be able to give something back.
up the Rams !

Is that @therams69 after spending all day long humping that 18kg flag  around town awaiting kick off and up and down them concrete stairs in the ground, and the flag gained weight, it became 30kgs due to all the rain we've been having! 
Glad the sun is out........looks like @therams69 is out also.........if your popping to the back of the stand son, get the beers in!
Up The Rams!

Bohemian Rapsody .. Brilliant
only downside was a very quiet cinema. I really wanted to start singing and clapping when it reached the live aid concert.
 

Jack O’Connell from unbroken was in the away end tonight (couple of rows in front of me, kicking and heading every ball)

Met up with Mr Todd tonight round at my dads, proper Derby County royalty ! he popped in for a cuppa and to check on Jordan’s fitness levels, absolute top man, always makes time and now does house calls, I wish he was more involved with the club ! They really could use his great personality!
100 bonafide Dcfc legend !
Toddy !

Nearly completed the journey now of meeting the legends, tonight was one of the great names in football, the man who stood in as captain and lead us to a second first Division Championship, the scorer of that goal for Scotland against Holland, the scorer of that free kick against Forest in the FA cup, one of Cloughs lieutenants who fell out with him so publicly over the European cup final, the man who would run tirelessly from box to box and never be in the headlines, working twice as hard as the ones who scored the goals.
was really pleasantly surprised at what a top friendly guy he was, he spent an hour with us, I took loweman1 and loweman3 with me and he sat there chatting away with all of us and bringing out his grandad skills to charm Jordan.
he had some great tales, we only scratched the surface but most of them were about him, Clough and Taylor, his fall outs and how Cloughie tried to make it right with him in the end.
Good old Archie ! Top Ram !

Here's the guy with his flag if you want to know more, @RebelScum. 
 

@angieram Did you say 72 folk, 1 hours work?.....brilliant, already an improvement on the Barnsley performance!
 

Brilliant job, well done to all that put in work.

Well done all.. Fantastic job, the ground looks great..

Ready for tomorrow night. 
 

I was really lucky to get an invite along today to the yard from John O’Hare to meet up with some of the 70s legends who were meeting up to celebrate Roy Macs 70th birthday and the annual Easter visit of Alan Hinton.
i thought I would take the opportunity to take my son along to meet some of the older players who when he is grown up will hopefully be given the status that that Steve Bloomer gets now, at least he will have a few photos to show that he really did meet the men who made us famous and for a brief moment in time perhaps the greatest football team in the world ?
when I got there I was a little embarrassed to find that I was the only member of the general public in attendance and felt a little bit out of place, the classic gatecrasher at the party, fortunately I know a number of them already and was instantly welcomed, I made sure that we sat just out side of the main group to allow them to chat to each other
Every one of them made time to come over and have a sit with us, I had of course taken some stuff to get signed as it was to good an opportunity to miss, after checking that they were ok with it they signed stuff and sat and talked and had photos with my son, he loved it and entered into some great conversation with them all, he was asking them about the odd haircuts that they had on the photos ( he is only eight) he told John Ohare that he should now be called john nohare which I’m not sure if john picked up on or not, he spoke to Alan about his white boots and got me showing Alan photos of his green boots, to a man they sat and chatted away talking about anything and everything, the numbers continue to dwindle, I felt like the man in the middle sharing stories of my recent meets with Colin Boulton, Colin Todd, Frank Wignall, john McGovern, and Peter Daniel, those in attendance (some with their good ladies) were John Ohare, Alan Hinton, Alan Durban, Roy McFarland, Roger Davies, Rod Thomas, Jim Walker and Henry newton, once again it struck me that the club should make more of a fuss of these guys whilst they are with us, let’s not wait twenty year before we finally get round to making up a song for them that we sing and the younger generation doesn’t have a clue what the names Todd, McFarland, Nish, Hector, Hennessy, Boulton, Newton, Gemmill, Davies, McFarland, O’Hare, McGovern, Hinton etc mean to Derby as a city.

Not many players known by just their first name. 
I was gutted when we sold Kevin Wilson but Bobby was great. 
Theres was more happened between 84-89 than everything combined since. And I loved the TBE era too. 

Some great stuff there @Tim Bucktoo !! The legends of our time !
a bit like when Cloughie took over he had goal machine Kevin Hector already at the club, 
when Arthur took over he had another striking legend in place whose goals would drag us out of those dark days ! Oh bobby bobby !
 

'The symbolic resurgence of Derby County'....
 
 

People say that the winding up petition was our darkest day !
i beg to differ
It was this abomination wearing a Derby shirt !!
 

and workrate.....always put a shift in as well as being skillful.

E I E I E I O ... Arthur is our king!