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“What a fantastic experience it was, parading the trophy around the pitch” says former Rams striker Roger Davies as he fondly recalls the moments leading up to the final game of the 1974/1975 season against Carlisle United at the Baseball Ground. The players and management team learned they had secured the Division One title just days earlier while attending an awards dinner at Bailey’s in Derby. “I’m sure Franny and Rod Thomas were still inebriated!” he adds with a laugh….

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Continuing our look back at Derby’s second title winning season in 1974/1975, here RamsTrust reviews the matches played in March 1975. The month started with Derby in 8th place after 30 games, four points behind leaders Everton and with a game in hand over many of the teams above them in the table. Derby were first up against fourth bottom Spurs at the Baseball Ground on March 1 and were shocked when Spurs took a 10th minute lead. However goals…

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Continuing our look back at Derby’s second title winning season in 1974/1975, here RamsTrust reviews the matches played in February 1975. The month started with Derby in good recent form having won four league games in a row and sitting in fifth place, only two points behind leaders Everton. Derby’s first game on February 1 was away at QPR, a decent midtable side albeit they had been beaten at the Baseball Ground 5-2 back in October. Bruce Rioch gave Derby…

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Continuing our look back at Derby’s second title winning season in 1974/75, here RamsTrust reviews the matches played in January 1975. The year began with Derby only three points off the top with a game in hand but sat in ninth place, such was the congestion at the top of Division One. After a fraught FA Cup third round tussle with Division Two Orient, Derby’s first league game in January was against Liverpool on Saturday 11th with Kevin Hector returning…

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Originally put forward by the previous government, the Football Governance Bill had not passed through Parliament before the election, but has now been strengthened and reintroduced by the Labour Government.  It proposes legislation addressing the serious challenges that have beset English football in recent times, seeks to put fans’ interests at the heart of the game and reflects the game’s failure to properly regulate itself. Key to the Bill’s provisions is the establishment of an Independent Football Regulator with a…

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