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My start to the season is even more lacklustre than the Rams......
I've just spent the last hour booing myself, my form is so poor....?

You should have pretended it was a book about Preston. 

Happy Friday one and all!
I should probably apologise in advance as I feel a little bit spammy, but I'm pretty excited to say that Pride (or Pride: The Inside Story of Derby County in the 21st Century to give it the full, far too long name) will be available from the club shop and online from this weekend!
Link - https://www.dcfcmegastore.co.uk/item/2865/Books/Pride-Na.html
For those who don't know, Pride is a project I've been working on for around three years in total, and it's seen me work with just over 60 former players, managers, chairmen, coaches and #ITK fans to tell the tale of the club from the moment we moved into Pride Park until the beginning of this year. It's not really a game by game account, it's more of a focus on each season, the on-field and off-field dramas (even the crash), all told by those who lived it from the inside. So to put the 60 people into context, it varies from the likes of Stefano Eranio, Steve McClaren and Warren Barton through to Gary Rowett, Harry Wilson, Giles Barnes, Inigo Idiakez and Jake Buxton.
The club have been extremely supportive and it's been a huge surprise to have them come on board, considering the content paints a factual tale, but they've been a huge help and it's fantastic to have them on board.
For anyone who has pre-ordered already - and a massive thank you for your interest in what began as just a daft little project to pass the time - what I'm going to recommend to people is that they cancel their pre-orders with Amazon and the likes, because hopefully money won't have been taken. Then the book will be available for around a week or two at the club and the megastore, before hitting the wider world. Unfortunately this one was out of my hands so I'm expecting a few pelters ?
I'll try not to spam too much but if anyone has any questions or comments on the book, what it's about or why certain people didn't make the cut, just reply or drop me a message. And most of all, for anyone who is keen and interested in understanding almost every major development and in-story of the club over 20+ years, I really hope you enjoy it. I'm on Twitter at @PrideDCFC where I'll be rambling to myself and sharing a few articles I've done over the past few months.
You might see/hear me a bit over the media over the next few weeks, so I'm always here to throw abuse at! I had a chat with the @Steve Bloomer's Washing team as well for their latest episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-147200653/sbw-94-Derby-county-2000-2020
 
Cheers,
Ryan

Good for Bradders, but I’d have scored a hat trick against Derby the way we defended that day.

Good for Bradders, but I’d have scored a hat trick against Derby the way we defended that day.

Good for Bradders, but I’d have scored a hat trick against Derby the way we defended that day.

Yeah, he should be thanking us. Couldn't have won it without us!

Good for Bradders, but I’d have scored a hat trick against Derby the way we defended that day.

Would that be the same Bielik who’s reckless tackle deprived us of his services for so long ? ? 

Sign a new domestic? 
Could lead to more clean sheets. ?

Sign a new domestic? 
Could lead to more clean sheets. ?

Sign a new domestic? 
Could lead to more clean sheets. ?

His name will go on ze list.

Sign a new domestic? 
Could lead to more clean sheets. ?

Sign a new domestic? 
Could lead to more clean sheets. ?

His name will go on ze list.

His name will go on ze list.

Boris's rule of six is really catching on! 

There’s an alternate reality where we won the play off final and bought Watkins. 
I want to live in that reality. 

Question for the forum. Sliding doors moment really. If we had turned up for the play off final, won, got promoted, stayed up by our fingernails due to a VAR malfunction, would we now be 4-1 up against Liverpool ???????

Question for the forum. Sliding doors moment really. If we had turned up for the play off final, won, got promoted, stayed up by our fingernails due to a VAR malfunction, would we now be 4-1 up against Liverpool ???????

No.