I hate Derby but....

[Leicesterpool]

Well for cov fans the main rivals is villa for them but incredibly they aint played them in 24 years!!! So they have to settle for us most the time 😆

 

Interesting they dont like Sunderland either... something to do with jimmy hill incident when he was cov manager in the 60s or 70s. 

[Tinman]

Interesting thread.

[Stadt]

43 minutes ago, bovril said:

I find it difficult to distinguish those games in my mind, especially as they were often about the same time of year and usually on TV. We won pretty much every one home and away I think, apart from the terrible run in spring 2013. I just can't remember which goal was scored in which game....

There were multiple 4-1/4-0 games which means they blurred into one. Yakubu and the De Laet (bizarrely) goals stick out.

[MattFox]

Probably the most vanilla club in midlands football

 

The fact Forest can find enough reasons to hate them so much is genuinely weird

 

 

Edited 8 March by MattFox

[Spudulike]

I think the Cov thing intensified (from their side) quite recently after we won the FA Cup. That was the only thing they could batter us with "you've never won a 'proper' cup". Always been a pathetic non-club that once got lucky 37 years ago. I don't care enough to hate them.

[SemperEadem]

Loved last season with Cov. Proper hatred.

[The Year Of The Fox]

2 hours ago, Vazman said:

Which school in Ashby de la Zouch?

Ivanhoe and then Ashby Grammar

[Stadt]

1 hour ago, SemperEadem said:

Loved last season with Cov. Proper hatred.

I couldn’t get over the coach selfies 

[OntarioFox]

Not sure what's going to be more shit next season - watching F*rest and C*v play each other in the top flight without us, or the Sheep not even have the courtesy to give us a local Derby of any sort.

 

We deserve everything we get as a club, team and in many cases as a fanbase too. Feels like the football gods are personally making things as embarrassing as possible for us right now. 

[Dan]

I lost count of how many times we hammered them at home. They really do blur into one.

[The Horse's Mouth]

Felt like we always beat them 4 when clough was there 

[ceebeefox]

7 hours ago, LCFCJohn said:

Growing up and going to school as close to Derby whilst being in Leicestershire as you can get (Castle Donington), I knew loads of Derby fans and a lot of my teammates in junior football supported them.

 

To be fair, they are quite a likeable club for me. Not at all offensive, their fans are loyal to them but not arrogant like Forest. They aren’t toxic and bitter like Cov fans.

 

I always want us to be top of the lot as we had been for a long time until recently, but as long as that is the case, I wish Derby well.

I agree with all of this. I remember walking back to the car after the play off final when we beat them ( god knows how when you see our team ) and many Derby fans congratulated us on the walk back, quite surprised me actually.

[adam1]

I'd probably consider Wolves a bigger game then Derby? 

 

But for us, I think Cov. They know it hence all the banners over the M69 last year...

[Vazman]

1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Ivanhoe and then Ashby Grammar

Same here seems like a lifetime ago now 

[The Year Of The Fox]

1 minute ago, Vazman said:

Same here seems like a lifetime ago now 

How old are you? I left AGS in ‘03 after my GCSEs

[Spudulike]

22 minutes ago, ceebeefox said:

I agree with all of this. I remember walking back to the car after the play off final when we beat them ( god knows how when you see our team ) and many Derby fans congratulated us on the walk back, quite surprised me actually.

We owned them, that day. All pubs and roads leading to Wembley were awash with blue n white. You couldn't see a Derby scarf or flag outside the stadium as the team buses worked their way through the crowd. The media thought it a formality that multi-million pound Derby would cruise it. But it was always going to be our day, you could feel it in the air. One of the best football days, ever. 

[Muzzy_no7]

For me I grew up with ‘sh*t on the Villa’ in the 90’s. 

 

But I’d rate our rivals as:

 

Forest

Cov

Derby

Villa

 

In that order. 
 

Always thought it extremely strange of Forest to see Derby as their biggest rivals when for 90-95% of footballing history we’ve been bigger and achieved more than Derby. 

[South Shire Fox]

I hold absolutley zero animosity to Derby County. Not sure if its an older generation thing but dont even see it as a big game. I imagine Derby feel the same way. Coventry and Forest are the ones

Edited 8 March by South Shire Fox

[Vazman]

34 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

How old are you? I left AGS in ‘03 after my GCSEs

I left in 1988 

[ceebeefox]

34 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

We owned them, that day. All pubs and roads leading to Wembley were awash with blue n white. You couldn't see a Derby scarf or flag outside the stadium as the team buses worked their way through the crowd. The media thought it a formality that multi-million pound Derby would cruise it. But it was always going to be our day, you could feel it in the air. One of the best football days, ever. 

Yes remember how boring their end was no balloons etc. We showed that you don’t have to play football to win a match, something your modern day coaches struggle to comprehend!

[MattFox]

1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

For me I grew up with ‘sh*t on the Villa’ in the 90’s. 

 

But I’d rate our rivals as:

 

Forest

Cov

Derby

Villa

 

In that order. 
 

Always thought it extremely strange of Forest to see Derby as their biggest rivals when for 90-95% of footballing history we’ve been bigger and achieved more than Derby. 

Bigger overlap between the two fan bases plays a massive part

 

Your average Forest fan is more likely to work with/ know a Derby fan than a Leicester fan

 

Places like Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Heanor etc are basically a 50/50 split between the two..

 

 

Edited 8 March by MattFox

[Paninistickers]

31 minutes ago, ceebeefox said:

Yes remember how boring their end was no balloons etc. We showed that you don’t have to play football to win a match, something your modern day coaches struggle to comprehend!

Genuinely think it had a slight % effect on our players and a negative on theirs..

 

Players came out of tunnel at our end to a carnival. But players eyes all looked on at a morbid Derby end. 

 

Then at half time, as we'd just equalised, City came into a wall of noise and their players trudged in to torrents of abuse from us. 

 

Even better, full time, we hurled abuse at Kitson in particular. No gracious winning. Pure rubbing their noses in it. 

 

 

[Foxmeister]

It's the rivalry that peaked when Little was in charge, both clubs were going for promotion season after season and Forest were way ahead of both of us.

 

Anyone remember the Leicester Derby Alliance?

[DerbyshireFox]

Was always Derby for me growing up. Same league most of the time, took plenty of stick at school when Savage ‘won’ a penalty at pride park to win late on the year we both went down. Forest were irrelevant to me until we faced them more regularly in the championship, and I don’t have any feelings for Cov at all to be honest.
 

Have a couple of mates who are Derby season ticket holders, certainly hostilities have died down over the years compared to where it was in the 90’s/early 2000s. 

[ceebeefox]

31 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Genuinely think it had a slight % effect on our players and a negative on theirs..

 

Players came out of tunnel at our end to a carnival. But players eyes all looked on at a morbid Derby end. 

 

Then at half time, as we'd just equalised, City came into a wall of noise and their players trudged in to torrents of abuse from us. 

 

Even better, full time, we hurled abuse at Kitson in particular. No gracious winning. Pure rubbing their noses in it. 

 

 

Absolutely. Take that you sheep favouring rotters! Or words to that effect!!