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Rio Ferdinand Presents FIVE
"After Derby hold impressive away draw against top table West Brom we take a look behind the scenes at Derby’s training ground. Rio takes a look at his ex team mates role as a manager to see what happens on the inside. From the kit man, to drones and exclusive behind the scenes view of training."

Ducking old git(by the way I’m 58 as well)?

Ducking old git(by the way I’m 58 as well)?

Alright so we lost, but at least we were the ones trying to play football and for a couple of spells in the game we almost got the goal we needed. I couldn't stand watching that horrible brand of "football" that Bowyer puts out there week after week, it might be effective but fook me I would rather watch one of the wife's shows than that!!

Rooney v Bowyer in a drunken brawl for the 3 points.

COYR!!!!

?? ?? You really are on truly epic form at the moment. I reckon you need just a couple more “made me splutter my coffee” comments and you’ll get yourself a new contract, suitable super car and even a WAG if you want one. 
Keep up the good work young man 

Mistrusting the photographic 'evidence' little Billy provided, the judges ended up demanding a visual inspection...

If we conceded the first ever league goal in world football (typical of the various other records we hold!) does this mean this was the first ever league game (or were there several that day or previous 0-0 draws)? 
And if it was the first ever game, then presumably we are the first club in the world to win a league football match. That sounds pretty impressive.

My wife's great great uncle was in the Rams side - and was the first player ever to make 100 league appearances.

Mine were posted to me for the florist game mate 

Wasn’t that Mussolini ?

I don't know that one, can you hum it?

The Verve lucky man

My itk Geordie mate has just informed me that we are signing Neymar. Neymar defenders, neymar midfielders and neymar strikers. 

Bobby Davison & The Baseball Ground ! A match made in heaven !

Brand new version of the book The Colours of The Rams is now out, updated to 2021/22 season, also 60 more pages and a change of format and shirts, also now includes original newspaper reports from 1884 onwards confirming kit colours and changes along with other research and the never seen before original shirt from the first game in 1884, on special offer at the moment for only £12.80 from Amazon, we make no profit from this it really is a labour of love and the only time that the full history has been documented, if you have one of the earlier copies it’s well worth updating as there is a lot more content as the book continues to grow and evolve as we unearth more history.
It really is the perfect gift, sort of book that you can leave on the coffee table and pick up and put down at leisure.
thank you for your continued support ??
purchase from here
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1727616618
 
 

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You’d swap Samba for Roos then?

It's a shame people can only form their opinions on players based on what Sky pundits (who are paid to create talking points) and slow motion replays tell them.
If you look at Fozzy's "stamp" in real time, he is just trying to extricate himself from the tangle. Not looking, no intent but they insist on making a meal of it.
Similarly the Forest equaliser in real time - appalling marking, crisp shot. Roos did well to nearly get down to it and many keepers (Marshall included) wouldn't have got anywhere near. But play it in slo-mo, it's suddenly an "error". 

Should have had it won in the first half. For all their improvement in the second, Forest didn’t do much. 
forest are the worst side I’ve seen this season. 
morrison  played well up until he got within 20 yards of their goal and he chose the wrong option or tried to fancy about with the ball too often

We threw it away
We threw it awa - ay
We're Derby County 
We threw it away.
Strange how a couple of seasons ago I used to get all manner of rollickings because of my dissatisfaction with the match officials, and I did tone it down a bit. But now I hardly need to say a word, because people have started to cotton on to what the officials get up to. And for the last couple of seasons we have been so poor that the ref's decisions have been irrelevant.
Today, however, we are the architects of our own downfall. Forest were really, really poor and were there for the taking, and but for a few better decisions with the final ball - Lawrence not putting Joswiack through on goal being a major one - we would have been out of sight by half time. But second half only Forest came back out of the changing rooms. We were lackadaisical and sloppy and half-arsed for quite a way into the second half. Yes Hughton did make a couple of changes, cutting of the supply lines through the first two phases, and pressing our back line to make them play back to Roos. Yes his distribution wasn't good today, but mot of the time he was put under huge pressure by the awful back passes. And Rooney singularly failed to change things. We kept getting pressed and closed down like this last season, and eventually learned to stop faffing about at the back. And again it wasn't working today, but we kept on insisting on doing it until late on in the game. If it doesn't work, try something else, for goodness sake. So having shown what a rabble Forest are, we let them improve to the point of looking like a poor team.
But if the match officials had done their job things would have turned out differently. I have watched the Sky highlights, and Fozzy does get his foot onto the Forest player's wedding tackle, but no way was that intentional. Apart from the fact that Fozzy isn't nasty enough to even swat a fly, he wasn't even looking, so no way did he deliberately place his foot there. Apparently Sky were blathering on about it for ages afterwards. And despite showing the Worrall handball in the highlights, they didn't give it much attention. It was blatantly clear that he knew exactly what he was doing, and there were two Derby players in line to receive the ball. Definite red card. Definite penalty. But they didn't show the blatant foul on Sibley when he would have through on goal in the first half. Yet again, a definite red card. Neither did they show the all-in-wrestling move on Davies towards the end of the second half. That it happened while the ball wasn't moving doesn't matter as it is serious foul play in the penalty area, and the corner had actually been taken by the time that Davies hit the floor. 
In the end, we threw the points away because of our dozy lack of effort in the second half, but most definitely the ref cost us two points today. WITHOUT A DOUBT. And no, I don't normally shout! In addition, he couldn't wait to yellow card Derby players, some of which technically being fully deserved, yet he failed to card Forest players for repeat offences throughout the match. And what was Joswaick booked for when he was the one who had been wrestled to the ground? That was almost as bad as giving Middlesborough a free-kick when one of their players brought his team mate down last week. It is easy to understand people thinking that there are special EFL directives on how to officiate at Derby County matches.
The positives are the way Derby are playing now. At the end of last season, and with all the off-pitch problems, I thought we would be playing even worse than we were then, so our play at the moment is a revelation. After such a poor performance a few matches ago, Joswiack has really improved, and Max Bird has become the Max Bird we all knew and loved.
Keep it going, you Rams. It has become a pleasure to watch you again, instead of just supporting you regardless. Thank you!

This is one of those times when I’m talking to a person I just nod ?

This is one of those times when I’m talking to a person I just nod ?

This is one of those times when I’m talking to a person I just nod ?