uttoxram75 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Except that there's a historic rivalry between the two counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and the cities of Derby and Nottingham that completely predates football.The only rivalry that predates football would be fighting over wild boar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 There's a lovely old song that epitomises the historic rivalry between our two famous old cities, it goes something like this........ We hate Nottingham Forest We hate Liverpool too, (and Leicester!) We hate Man Uni - ted, But Forest, we hate you.... altogether now...... When it was first written by Jem and Prof Rodgers on Wheildons bus all those years ago, the words were... We hate Nottingham Forest We hate Leicester too We hate 89 others But Derby we love you. The clever bit never caught on - I think some plonkers from Uttoxeter didn't understand the arithmetic significance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramesses Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 I guess Clough was the main man behind this promotion too?Would not be possible without King Clough.Funny you should say that...Chairman pays tribute to CloughBy Burton Mail | Posted: April 20, 2015BEN Robinson paid tribute to Nigel Clough after Burton Albion won promotion to League One, writes Tom Sloan.The Brewers chairman says the club has not forgotten its non-league roots as the third tier of English football beckons under the management of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink."It's been a long journey over the years, starting in the Southern League and the Northern League and we've not forgotten that," said Robinson."We look back on those 10 years that Nigel Clough gave us – he set the foundations and that's the one big reason we're here today and celebrating today."It's about what he did in those 10 brilliant years."And Gary Rowett was a great manager for us. Jimmy inherited a marvellous group of players, he's tweaked it and fine tuned it and put his own stamp on it and brought some players in."For him to achieve promotion in his first season as a manager is very special." http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Chairman-pays-tribute-Clough/story-26356747-detail/story.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tombo Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Just had an utterly superb ham and cheese sandwich. All credit to Clough though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramesses Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I wouldn’t give Clough all the credit. I’m sure Gary and Jimmy spat in it as well… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bris Vegas Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Clough must be a really sound bloke for everyone to praise him for the success clubs have had after he left.You never hear of people praising Claudio Ranieri or Frank Rijkaard for laying the foundations at Chelsea and Barca to go on and dominate and achieve the subequent success they had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 I don't particularly follow burton albion, but.....under nigel they achieved promotion to the conference and then (virtually) to the football league; they built the new ground; they had a couple of great F.a. Cup runs including playing manchester united home and away which yielded a lot of income.....of course this set the foundation for what came later.Whats the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 For completeness i should add that i think jimmy floyd hasselbaink has gone a sensational job there.burton suffered a significant bad run before he arrived - 8 defeats in 12 games - relegation form.he seems to have had an immediate effect. They only lost 3 of the next 30. (W19 D8 L3) 65pts.incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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