Richard Dastard Lee

Not once did we show any composure, it was just too frenetic.

Yes my mistake, the Osmaston End stand was bombed in January 1941 and doesn't appear to be damaged in the photo so that would appear to date it between 1935 and 1941.

It would be interesting to know the date of the black and white aerial shot, the Osmaston and Normanton end's look to be single storey, there's curved terracing at the Osmaston end to pop side corner and no flood lights. 1930's at a guess.

Roy McFarland

Twelve months ago we looked like a Championship side, relegated by a points deduction and trying to play its way out of the division. Now we look like a League 1 team trying to scrap its way out of the division. The former may not have got us promoted but I know which I preferred.

I remember going back to my grandma's for a Boxing Day family tea after the 4-4 game and being told to cheer up because I had a sulk on after we let the win slip.

Check after buying, I bought the Charlton stream whilst on holiday using paypal and the streaming service charged me 4 times, all charged at an identical time by sending me 4 emails with different transaction numbers. I have requested 3 be refunded but nothing yet.

When Arthur Cox came in 1984 and the situation was very similar to now he had just achieved promotion to the top tier with Newcastle and therfore just acheived the same as what Cooper has done. Having said that I really can't see Cooper doing the same thing.

What Arthur did have was experience of managing in the lower leagues with Chesterfield and as much as I like Rosenior I think we need a manager with lower league experience. Clough would fit the bill.

At one time Meadow Lane was known as 'Pickering Park' as they used the money they received from Lionel for Tommy Johnson and Craig Short to improve it, so it seems appropriate.

I don't know if it's because I was younger 1984 when Stuart Webb managed to save the club at the very last minute at the High Court or, perhaps because there was no social media and just Radio Derby, but it never entered my mind then that we could go out of business.

This time however it seems to be more worrying.

No set of fans should go through this twice in a lifetime.

If we do survive to fight the rest of the season and we get to the point where we are mathmatically unable to stay in the Championship, we should start losing by big scores to any teams who could finish above  Middlesborough in the table.

25 minutes ago, angieram said:

It is fueled by privilege and testosterone and it absolutely stinks.

To be fueled by testerone it means that they have got to have balls and I don't think they have.

They use their privilege and sense of entitlement to persue petty vendenta's. They are as far removed from the real world and our feelings as Boris and his bunch of public school boy bankers.

What a fantastic find, I've heard a lot of the interviews before on Radio Derby's 'The Derby County Story' series and tape but it's really interesting to see the non-personalities on film.

One factual inaccuracy though, Tim Ward wasn't a local lad, he was from Cheltenham, hence his west country accent 

I think he consulted Dominic Cummings for advice on what to say here.

I'm 24 hours late but 2 years ago yesterday - 24/9/19 was the Joiners incident.

Let's hope the next 2 years are considerably better than the last 2 years.

Sounds like he wants to Bury us!

I certainly bear him no ill will, I just fail to understand why he has gone down this route, if he is as big a fan as he says he is?

I don't think his Radio Derby interview has done him any favours at all, it was about as successful as Prince Andrew's TV interview with Emily Maitliss (except the night at Pizza Express), and look where that got him - sent to Coventry!

It just seems sad that in the week that a new season starts which is normally a time to look to the future we can only look backwards. I thought that using Roy Mac and Big Roger to model the new kit was another sign of the times as well. 

I don't mean to denigrate our history or any of the legends by the way.

2 hours ago, roboto said:

It's the hope that kills you.

As the philosopher Homer (Simpson) said 'Hope is just disappointment that hasn't happened yet'

As I remember it was the HMRC who was petitioning to wind up the club in 1984 when Stuart Webb pulled off the the 59th minute of the 11th hour rescue with the Robert Maxwell takeover.

I also remember him saying 'Derby County will never find itself in this position ever again'

Of all the current problems I think that owing the HMRC money again as in 1984 depresses me most

A great interview with a great player who was in our midfield when I first started watching the Rams in 1967. I really liked his quote that Dave Mackay 'never played a ball without a message on it'.

The Chelsea home League Cup replay under the lights in 1968 at the BBG is one of my most memorable games too, but Alan's memory failed him a little when he mentioned the next round game in Liverpool as the opponents were actually Eveton and not the Red's.

Those of us who remember 1984 and the travails of Stuart Webb in saving the club from going out of business at the 59th minute of the 11th hour can't help but be concerned at the moment and that is just taking into account the known facts and not the added suppositions.

In 1984 it was the Inland Revenue petitioning to wind the club up due to unpaid taxes, I don't beleive that we have worries of that kind this time but the EFL have shown with Bury that they are willing to let clubs go. Hopefully the fact that they were substantially culpable in that case with their 'fit and proper person test' failure will make tham more careful this time.

Another memory I have from the Bury game is speaking to a lad who was a Spurs supporter and had come up from London to see Dave Mackay playing for us. Mackay suferred a head injury and had to be substituted. He said 'He's got a cut behind his ear' to me in his cockney accent which I was totally unfamiliar with and I heard 'He's got a cat behind his ear'. I spent ages trying to work out why Dave would have a cat behind his ear!

I went to that game at Bury as well, there was more away fans than home fans and both sets of supporters changed ends at half time, we walked down one side of the pitch and they walked down the other side!

The Liverpool game was my 18th birthday, I hadn't got a ticket but a neighbour who was a steward gave me a complimentary ticket, only problem was it was in the away end. It was at the height of the hooligan problem but I still decided to go anyway. I stood right in the middle of the scouser's not dareing to speak and I remember just nodding once when the bloke next to me asked me my opinion. They were worried when big Rog came on for Leighton James and of course he justified his super sub tag with the goal. It was difficult but I had to feign disapointment with the rest of them around me when the goal went in but inside I was secretly elated.