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Shana Tova! Have a Good New Year- 5769!


TIME OUT - Queens Park Rangers v Blackpool
In a recent interview, Rangers' co-owner Flavio Briatore stated that he's trying to build 'a unique brand and concept, in essence a boutique stadium'. Click to continue reading...

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The Sun - QPR 0 Derby C 2From PAUL JIGGINS at Loftus Road
AN off-peak return rail ticket from Derby to London: £59.
A seat in the visitors' enclosure at Loftus Road (if QPR had their way): £40.
Seeing your team win their first away game for 18 months: Absolutely blooming priceless! Click to continue reading...

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Sunday Times/Roy Collins - Derby delight
QPR boss Iain Dowie said beforehand that he was beginning "to like the smell of his team's dressing room". But the air in there would have been bluer than Gordon Ramsay's kitchen after Rangers became the first club to lose a home league match to Derby for 18 months. Click to continue reading...

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The club's decision to raise ticket prices, critiqued by quite a few messageboard posters, attracts media attention.
[See also: Official Statement Announcing Ticket Price Increases -- QPR's Ali Russell Comments QPR's Finances/Ticket Price Increases ----
Loyal Supporters Association (LSA) Statement ---- QPR Fan Reactions

Mirror/Ann Gripper - QPR money men are Category A clowns
"We have introduced a new three-tiered category banding structure, whereby adult matchday prices are determined by the opposition, their league position and the day of the fixture," QPR announced on Monday. Click to continue reading...

Derby County called in emergency help today after finding themselves in crisis following yesterday's win over Sheffield United.

A spokesman for the club explained:

"After almost a year without a win, we suddenly realised we had forgotten how to celebrate"

A source close to the club told us how the problem began when club officials realised they had no champagne on ice. Click to continue reading...

You can always trust Robbie Savage to live in a fantasy world. You see, even with his side Derby languishing at the foot of the Championship, without a league win in about eight years, Savage continues to behave as if living the dream by splashing out on a brand new Lamborghini LP640, which retails for the modest sum of around £186,000.

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Talk about falling from grace. Can you believe Derby are actually bottom of the championship?

Yes they were clearly out of their depth last season, but you kind of expect a relegated team to be somewhere in the top half of the next division down don't you?

Paul Jewell said afterwards it was the best they had played so far this season too! Click to continue reading...

It's not much fun being a County fan at the moment. The Rams were a laughing stock in the Premier League last season, winning just one match all term. Things have not gone much better this campaign, despite manager Paul Jewell spending plenty of cash to try and bounce back ... Click to continue reading...

Paul Jewell arrived at Pride Park full of optimism and was confident that he could improve Derby's fortunes. However, it appears as though the Rams were a lot better off two seasons ago (apart from financially of course) when Billy Davies was at the helm, steering the underdogs to promotion ... Click to continue reading...

It's not been much fun supporting Derby County in the past twelve months. After gaining promotion to the Premier League, the Rams were humiliated on several occasions, showing a remarkable ineptitude under Billy Davies and Paul Jewell. Many claim that the latter's job is on the line following an ordinary . Click to continue reading...

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Managerial "Sack Race"
EDP24 "...The bookmakers don't rate [Norwich] City's chances for promotion this season - and one company has him down as a 16-1 shot to be the first Championship manager to be sacked this season.
Roeder is rated at 16-1 to get the elbow from Carrow Road, although it's another former West Ham manager, Alan Pardew, who SkyBet reckon could be the first to pick up his P45. Click to continue reading...

While Paul Jewell could do little about County's relegation from the Premier League last season, it didn't seem as though there was much improvement on Billy Davies' record in the top flight. The former Wigan manager brought in plenty of new faces, but they couldn't land him a win all season and it still appears [. Click to continue reading...

Christ, it must be pretty rough being a Derby fan. After literally the worst top flight season in English football history, they opened their Championship account this year with a home defeat to newly-promoted Doncaster. At home. Ouch. Paul Jewell's record as the Rams boss is now 1 win out of 29, and however you decide to chop it up, that is miserable to say the least.

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A few weeks ago, we reported that Benny Feilhaber was on the auction block at Derby shortly before he was named to the US Olympic squad. Now, it seems he may still have a place in the club's side, but just barely. After his meteoric rise from Hamburg and the US national team to last summer's transfer to Derby, Feilhaber seemed to be the next big thing. Click to continue reading...

The Rams may be one of the favourites to be promoted from the Championship this season, although it's possible that many of the Derby players will still be suffering from a hangover. That's not because they're heavy drinkers but more down the fact that County accrued just 11 points in the Premier League last season. Click to continue reading...

Juande Ramos sees sense as well as perhaps some video footage of this very bad potential signing! Don't forget to check out Online Football Manager! Derby manager Paul Jewell has confirmed goalkeeper Stephen Bywater's proposed move to Tottenham has fallen through. Bywater was poised to move to White Hart Lane after the clubs agreed . Click to continue reading...

Speculation is rife that Robbie Savage could make a shock return to his old club Leicester City amid a fall out with Derby boss Paul Jewell. Earlier this week Jewell declared himself publicly unhappy with Savage's performances in training stating that "Robbie wasn't happy about not being first choice and I wasn't happy with the way he reacted in training", this statement coupled with Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric's confirmation that Savage's name had been mentioned whilst considering new signings. Click to continue reading...

So a new season is just around the corner and with the Championship season about to kick off on Saturday but who is going to reach the promised land of the Premiership by taking the crown and the number one spot in Englands second tier. Football To You today opens voting on the poll so that you, the reader, can cast your vote and share your opinions in the comments section below on who will be victorious. Click to continue reading...

Something to read while you put some clothes on... Jewell or Belichick: Which sex tape is worse? (Dave's Football Blog) A surprisingly convincing argument for 3-6-1 (Gramsci's Kingdom) Previewing the Olympic ladies (USA WCB) Reinventing PSG (Just Football) But why do they call him Billy? (Milan Offside) Jerson dos Santos - late starter (Sniffing the Touchline) Sepp Blatter denies saying that thing [. Click to continue reading...

Promoted teams usually find the going is tough in the Premier League - just ask Billy Davies and Paul Jewell. However, it's not nailed-on that West Brom, Stoke and Hull are doomed, especially when you read that the Potters are close to signing an England international goalkeeper who might yet ... Click to continue reading...

Hypocrite - Example One: Webster Andy Webster is a Scottish defender who brought around a lot of controversy a couple of years ago after making a move from Hearts to Wigan, then managed by Paul Jewell. Following a disagreement over contracts, he was left out of the team and the club suggested he was on the [. Click to continue reading...

Paul Jewell is giving up on Wigan Athletic defender Titus Bramble and will look to find a defender elsewhere. The Rams have been bullish with their spending so far this summer, but it doesn't look like Bramble will be one... Click to continue reading...

With today's signing of 28-year-old Danish defender Martin Albrechtsen, manager Paul Jewell has now brought in 8 players this off season. The list includes: 22-year-old Australian right midfielder/right back Ruben Zadkovich, 24-year-old winger Kris Commons, and 20-year-old winger/forward Steve Davies. Click to continue reading...

What happens when a team who have won just one home match all season come up against a side who have won one away match in the league this term? All will become clear at Pride Park on Sunday, when Derby host Reading in a match which the visitors need to win if they're to [...] Click to continue reading...

I'll be honest with you. I've written over 300 posts here on English Soccer Talk since I started this site, and other than in my preseason predictions and my midseason summaries, I can't remember any posts specifically about Derby County or even mentioning that club in another post for more than a sentence or two. Click to continue reading...

 -Jermain Defoe got in on the t-shirt scribbling tribute by putting Sharpie to Spandex and penning a sentiment for his gran on Saturday. He of course recieved a yellow card for his troubles, but it's no matter- Pompey took down Wigan 2-0, thanks to JD's goalscoring efforts and DJ's work between the sticks. Click to continue reading...

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More injury woes for Derby County. Teenager Giles Barnes is expected to face a lengthy spell on the sidelines after picking up an injury in training last week and is set to go for another scan this week. Derby manager Paul Jewell laments: It isn't good news. We're sending him for a second opinion. It isn't cruciate ligament [. Click to continue reading...

Derby boss Paul Jewell has voiced his concerns over Giles Barnes' knee injury.The midfielder picked up the problem in training last week and sat out the goalless draw with Sunderland on Saturday.He underwent a scan on Friday that confirmed he had not suffered any damage to his cruciate ligament.

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After Derby County's 0-0 draw with Sunderland at Pride Park in the English Premiership on Saturday, Derby manager Paul Jewell in a much better tone than he was same time last week when Derby displayed their worst performance of the season against Wigan Athletic. Jewell says that he is happy with the result and even happier [. Click to continue reading...

Derby County manager Paul Jewell has heard no complaints from his players after imposing a stricter training regime this week.Jewell was seething with the Rams' performance in last Saturday's 2-0 defeat at former club Wigan Athletic and has vowed to whip the squad into shape.He confirmed there has been a greater intensity in training in recent days and is looking for a response in this weekend's game against Sunderland.

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Derby County's Robbie Savage has missed most of the season with a plethora of injuries and he is unlikely to return soon. He has played just 7 times for the Rams this season and is expected to stay at Derby Park when Derby play Championship football next season. Yet Derby boss Paul Jewell sympathises with Savage's [. Click to continue reading...

How many times have we heard our glorious sports punditry tell us how stupid it is for a coach or player to tell us how he/she feels in public,but then complain that athletes and coaches have nothing to say anymore more.They are nothing more then cliched robots,products of slick and slicker media consultants. Click to continue reading...

Only a madman more than a match for the asylum caretakers would suggest that Derby County would survive the drop from the Premiership at the end of this season. Even the Rams' manager Paul Jewell has resigned himself and his team to Championship football next season. Derby were beaten by Wigan Athletic 2-0 in a Premiership [. Click to continue reading...

Derby County are rock bottom in the English Premier League and even their manager Paul Jewell has admitted that the Rams cannot avoid the drop to the Championship at the end of the season. Yet he is adamant that he wouldn't help other struggling teams as the race to finish above the bottom three intensifies. Click to continue reading...