The Rams won just 10% of those available at the start of the season which is the lowest on record. They asked me a question about next season, but what they didn’t know was I’d had a call when I was sitting in the hotel in Southampton, the day before the first leg of the play-off semi-final.”, The call came from a contact, telling him that a takeover of the club may be afoot, and his position as manager appeared to be in jeopardy as a result. They were the first team in 108 years to go a season winning only one game. This was all a good bit of fun and a nice coding challenge for an amateur like myself. “Absolutely we can stay up,” Jewell roared. “I always, always tried my hardest,” he says. Right in the top corner. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard~SubredditWiki.5c1c766ebbeafac27d9a.css.map*/._3bX7W3J0lU78fp7cayvNxx{max-width:208px;text-align:center} Iceland? “In my 35 years of watching Derby County, it was the greatest feeling ever,” supporter Carl Walker tells FFT. Derby finished the season with 11 points, one win, 29 defeats and with a goal difference of -69. So the expected scoreline in this match will be a 4.749 – 0.224 win in favour of Man City, i.e. This had the feeling of a big week for Derby County manager Phillip Cocu and the players. All rights reserved. Like Jewell, he’s been out of management for some time and believes the perception of his time at Derby has not done him any favours. “We had organisation, discipline, spirit and togetherness.”, Those latter two qualities would be tested by the first of several problems over the next 15 months: a row over bonuses. .s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);padding-top:5px}.s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f._19JhaP1slDQqu2XgT3vVS0{color:#ea0027} Thank you for signing up to Four Four Two. You can download the output folder for the 10,000 seasons [here], it contains the following .csv files: Teams: a folder containing the 20 teams in the league, each file has the 10,000 season end results for the respective team.
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“We’d achieved something that was unthinkable – promotion after just 11 months, two years too early. After taking just 6 points from 14 matches, their only win a 1–0 victory over future strugglers Newcastle United, Davies left by mutual consent after a meeting with Adam Pearson, taking nearly all of his newly assembled backroom staff with him. Can you name every team to be relegated from the Premier League? On average they earned fewer than three points over a whole season! Although performances improved under Jewell, results didn't. What’s plainly obvious about Derby in 2007/08 was the lack of philosophy; the club had been promoted earlier than anticipated and Billy Davies did not have time to embed a distinct style of play on a squad essentially filled with journeymen who were too good for the … I don’t know, but I was exactly the same at both and got two different results. I gave the board options for new signings and the board decided they would pick the cheaper options. They tried to make it out that it was the Davies Show, but it wasn’t – Davies had a knife in his back.”. It had been a dire nine months. There was no apprehension at that moment: only happiness. The Scot arrived in the summer of 2006, shortly after local businessman Peter Gadsby had completed his takeover of a club who had been in financial trouble. The manager was all over the place too. If many fans didn’t mourn Davies’ departure, some players felt differently. They were promoted after beating West Bromwich Albion … 5-0 and 1-8 losses were next dished out by 2007-08 Man United and 2009-10 Chelsea. Still, their essentially inevitable failure to ever get to grips with life at the top level is little more than an extreme example of the plight faced by many clubs promoted to a top division which ruthlessly punishes any team lacking the sufficient funding, fan base or planning.

This is your round up of all things Derby; the one-stop shop that will keep you updated on the latest goings on at Pride Park and beyond. Former Derby County forward Craig Fagan wishes it had been clear how hurt the players were during the “embarrassing” 2007-08 Premier League campaign. After the game, Davies had publicly criticised Derby's board for a lack of investment. © NEXT: The defence. Within two days of Davies's dismissal, on 26 November, Derby appointed highly rated former Wigan Athletic manager Paul Jewell. They would collect only 11 points in 2007/08, a Premier League record that doesn’t look like being beaten any time soon. He showed me the training ground and it was magnificent. On the final day of the season everything went 2016-17 Chelsea's way as they crushed 2011-12 Man United 4-0 to jump from 7th place into the top 4 on Goal Difference. The team were short – no doubt about it. “I sat down with my advisers and we knew the thing that had to come up was where did all the money go from winning promotion?” Davies explains. Derby haven’t been back in the Premier League since, so we must have had something to get there in the first place.”. Who would get the most points? This was September 1. Did Derby County ever finish a season above 20th Place? Disgruntlement over the change of manager hadn’t helped. ._3U-J6NPoBHbyibarrb7T3F{font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:32px;text-transform:uppercase;display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%;margin-top:10px}.FIYolDqalszTnjjNfThfT{max-width:256px;white-space:normal;text-align:center} With Derby relegated, eyes turned to the title race. Press J to jump to the feed. “The first time I met Adam was after Billy left – I was in London and I got a call saying he would like to speak to me. However, all of those worked out as a greater percentage of the points available in those seasons than Derby managed in 07/08. Current champions 2018-19 Man City were next to be welcomed at Pride Park, and Derby put up a good fight by only losing 0-2. Would they be able to beat any of the monster teams listed above over a simulated season? “That season completely got me down.