Pre-Fulham Prayers…
By: MoonPig | March 26th, 2008It’s been another brilliant week in the life of a Derby County supporter. Again, mentioning no names (*cough* gutter-press *cough*) it’s just another low on what has been a nightmare season. Still, despite wishing for it to end I’d much rather get to this blessed 16 point target first. I can’t even remember when I stopped aiming for 40 points. I think it was somewhere between Steven Gerrard scoring a stoppage time winner against us on Boxing Day, or watching Bolton do exactly the same on January 2nd… Maybe it was when Spurs gave us a whopping in October…
Team news: Derby are expected to be without Alan Stubbs, in addition to the already injured Giles Barnes, Claude Davis, Danny Mills and Tyrone Mears (see pic below of the metal rod in his shin)…
Anyway, I won’t be at the home game against Fulham on Saturday. I haven’t got a doctors note or anything - ironically I’m in the big smoke. If only Derby were away at Fulham, I could have gone (because our away form is soooooo much better (!)).
The only home game I’ve missed so far was our 5-0 shoeing from what my friends called “West Ham’s reserves” in October. Strangely, nothing would make me happier than to hear my beloved Rams have won for the first time since 1923 yet at the same time I’d feel an element of jealously for missing it, as it really doesn’t happen that often.
Perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself. Maybe I should start out small… like hoping we don’t concede 3… or hoping that we score… or even keep a clean sheet. Egads.
That said, this game is very winnable and Fulham fans might not admit it but deep down they know they might get turned over.
SkyBet have the first goal scorer to be McBride at 6/1 and then Miller at 7/1 …also worth noting that “no scorer” is 8/1… Thank you very bloody much, Sky.
Derby To Win: 13/8, Draw: 11/5, Fulham To Win: 11/8 … I’ll have a fiver on Andy Todd to score (12/1) for Derby, please!
There are also doubts over keeper Roy Carroll, midfielder Stephen Pearson and winger Mile Sterjovski… so that’s up to 8 first team players out. But worry not Derby fans, Paul Jewell has a secret weapon if Carroll doesn’t recover from his groin strain. I know you’re probably thinking it’ll be Deputy Lewis Price but you’d be wrong…. 
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