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I was privileged to be asked by @Matt_Barlow_DM of the Daily Mail to assist him in putting together a full double page article celebrating the 50 year anniversary of Derby County becoming the Champions of England, please share its a great write up, so great to see something positive about our great club.
#SaveDerbyCounty
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10677815/amp/Derby-legends-trip-memory-lane-50-years-winning-league.html
 

My friend has not long left of his life, He has terminal cancer and has maybe only weeks to live.  He had his first season ticket when he came out of the army in the mid fifties, and has had it every season since, and then when he married in 1963 his wife had one too, they never missed a home match, but then covid came along and they have not been again. We have a mutual friend who lives in the USA he is in the UK this week end and is taking my friend to what is likely to be his last match ever. I'm just hoping if there are any protests it wont affect the match. So please spare a thought or a prayer if your so minded on Saturday. I wont say his name as he hated social media as much as he loved the Rams. So UP THE RAMS  P will be thinking of you.  

Bet that felt like a slap in the face

With the spiralling cost of fuel and other essential items, particularly the cost of heating your home, it has been been reported that a further million people will be plunged into poverty over the next month, with half of them children. Many families will be faced will the awful choice of eating or heating.
The UK average spend of food and drink is £40 a week. However many survive on a fraction of this. Therefore to shine a light on this, experience a little and raise some money, My lad and I will be living on £1 a day each on food and drink for a week, a total of £14 for the two of us.
We are going to start this on Easter Monday (a kind of belated lent) and hopefully manage the full 7 days. Obviously this won't be easy but I won't pretend this is anything like suffering many people will be going through around the country.
Almost 2 years ago, David and I launched a campaign on here to raise money for the Derby Mission Food Bank when many people were laid off due to Covid. I am looking to do the same again, with anyone who can afford it donating to the same cause. I am hoping we can raise £1000. I will be donating the difference in what I would normally spend on a supermarket shop for the two of us. 
I will set up a specific DCFC Fans donate account and provide a link in the next couple of days.
In the meantime, maybe posters could share experiences and ideas around this area. Many on here will be able to donate but many posters may also need help, so I hope we can come together and help each other.
I will do a diary entry on here on how we manage, how we shop, what we eat and how we feel.
  

Is he s Saudi prince?? ? 

Why not form your own?
Then we can "Not In My Name" you. ?
I'm pretty sure that if it hadn't been for supporters' pressure groups, associations, clubs and even humble messageboards, we would either still have the Amigos, worse (is MM worse? His intentions weren't to carpet-bag the club - at least I don't think so) or we would be a memory.
I'm not going to criticise any group whose intentions are to get us out of this mess, whoever they are, just because they haven't asked my permission.

Good band. Seeing them in Brighton, and Foals later in the month too. For my sins, got to go to the Ally Pally with the wife next weekend to listen to Ed Sheeran.

Evening all. It's a Meikle update!! 
 
He's been through it poor little guy. And both Mrs VdM and I have been on a bit of a rollercoaster. 
Meikle has always drunk a lot and wee'd a lot. We mentioned this a few times but had been brushed off by the charity. 
Last week our local vet, after some testing, gave us his view that Meikle had chronic kidney disease. Renal dysplasia. Prognosis was life expectancy 200 - 400 days. It's incurable and congenital. 
He was 1 last week. 
Cue emotional meltdown. But to be fair, he said that the tests weren't 100% conclusive and referred him to a local super specialist vet. 
We've just got him back after 48 hours of scanning and testing. 
He's got a birth defect called an ectopic ureta. Basically the tube from one of his kidneys into his bladder is defective. He is leaking urine into his bladder which is backing up and has caused one of his kidneys to start failing. 
The great news is that it can be fixed with surgery. So negotiations are about to start as to who pays. 
His testing cost £3,000 which the charity has funded via its insurance. 
Procedure? Don't know. He's not going to make it as an assistance dog so Mrs VdM has put her size 5s down and insisted we adopt him. 
But she's insisted that I mustn't be tight. So I won't be. He's part of the family. Even though the whole thing hasn't worked out in terms of delivering a useful functioning assistance dog, I'd like to think we've done a little good. 
Here he is sleeping off his anaesthetic. 
Thank you for your interest and kind words all. If the mods want to close the thread then understand and appreciate all their help. 
Love to all 
MoodHoover xx

Don't try the old "can I toss on your floor" routine pal.
FTFY @uttoxram75

I’ll be there. Holding off on booking accommodation until Sky finalise their fixtures though. 
Should be a great day out, whatever happens. And it will be my first season where I’ve done every away game: league, cup and pre-season!

Wait till you see his going down tweets!

They’re not being emptied until tomorrow morning.

I’ve just got tickets to see Everything Everything in Brum on 9th April. Taking my 14 year old daughter so we’ll be taking it easy on the balcony.
I absolutely love their first 3 albums but they went a bit crap after that. The latest release is good though and they’re great live so should be a good night. 

Also, at what point do Rooney and Rosenior graduate from being novices? They've packed some experience into the short time they've been in charge. Had to deal with a lot more than some managers twice their age!

How do you know he isn't good enough?

If rooney leaves it will be rosenior as manager 100% next season.