Some things you might not have known
I’m doing my homework on Derby:
They’re not bad up front. Kenny Miller, an important part of Scotland’s recent run, is playing for them. Here he talks about his disappointment at the recent international defeat.
They also have annoying forward Robert Earnshaw. He may be recalled after playing well in a recent sub appearance and scoring for Wales in midweek. Earnshaw’s a weird one, the embodiment of the journeyman forward perhaps. Does he have more talent than we realise, or less? He’s a threat though, the sort of player who can and does score goals you don’t want him to score. Hmmm.
They may be vulnerable at the other end though. Dean Leacock, found here explaining that he had to leave Fulham to get regular football, partners Darren Moore. It’s conspicuous in its Championship look.
The Derby Evening Telegraph is pretty good at all this. Here’s another link, this time regarding Brian Clough’s portrayal in David Peace’s recent book. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s one of those books that everyone says is great and I know I’ll get there in the end. But the book’s not going anywhere and I’ve plenty of good stuff to be going on with.
Finally, thanks to the BBC this time, here is the Derby squad:
Bywater, Griffin, Moore, Malcolm, Teale, Davis, Camara, McEveley, Todd, Oakley, Mears, Pearson, Barnes, Fagan, Howard, Price, Earnshaw, Miller, Jones, Leacock, Lewis.
No, it isn’t particularly worrying. Giles Barnes is very good but hasn’t played much this year. Perhaps he’ll waltz back in and ruin our weekend. Tricky little bugger, fast, shoots. He appears to have a lot going for him, and knows it. One to watch tomorrow, if he plays.
Where is Benny Feilhaber?
Anyway, I think we’ll win easily enough. And if we don’t? Well, let’s see what the performance is like.
Rob has his usual sterling preview interviews. Includes Shakira.
He he. Sorry. Weak, obvious, puerile. Oh well. I’ll go high brow next week. John Coltrane for Sunderland or something. Anyway, you can’t beat a bit of Shakira.
Football. Derby are interesting to me. Hade went to Uni in Derby so we watched a few games when Pride Park first opened. I know Fulham and Derby have previous, but I enjoyed watching the Stimac/Wanchope Rams back in the late 90s. We saw them a few times, decent side at the time. It’ll be interesting to see how things play out tomorrow.
We’ll get back to proper writing next week. Both Brian and I are having pretty heavy times at work at the moment, so we’re doing what we can. Also, we’ll be selling Fulham Reviews tomorrow from about 12. See you there!
Spot on about Earnshaw. Seems to have been a bit of a bust most of his career but I remember him playing for numerous teams through out the years for these spectacular goals he has scored. So you know he has it in him.
Benny Feilhaber is young yet and Derby is probably not a bad team for him to learn the ropes at, if he could get some regular playing time. He’s going to be a good holding midfielder. Interesting that the Maccabiah Games are mentioned in that Wiki bio. The coach of the MN Thunder, Amos Magee has coached the US team and will again this winter. He has worked with Feilhaber in the past and one of our players for the Thunder, Kevin Freidland, a nifty defender who is only 5′7″ (170 cm) but can jump higher than most tall men, also played with Feilhaber in the Maccabiah games.
Lastly, I’m not into pop music at all but that Shakira….whew! You gota cool me down and it’s only 7;00 a.m. She really does it for me.
Hey Rich, I’m going to get in on this action and post a pregame video one of these times. After you posted The Who video I thought, “I can do better than that!” But I like the concept. A pregame music video to get you pumped up.
bqfootball
20 Oct 07 at 12:48 pm
Yeah, not my type of music either, but as you say…
I don’t deliberately set out to post a Friday video but often I’ve had a couple as I type and something inspires me. Neither of the songs I’ve posted have meant anything to me except that they sort of captured the excitement I felt about the next day’s game at the time. If I wanted to start a musical thing I’d be posting very different things, but it’s sometimes fun to go weird on youtube, no?
weltmeisterclaude
20 Oct 07 at 10:12 pm