Derby 0 Reading 4

Derby manager Paul Jewell is boosted by the return of six players for Sunday’s final Barclays Premier League game of the season against Reading.

MARK HUGHES hailed Roque Santa Cruz as one of the best natural finishers he has ever seen after the Paraguay striker ensured Derby entered the record books as the worst team in Premier League history.

Derby manager Paul Jewell will hand a late fitness test to David Jones ahead of Monday’s Barclays Premier League clash with Arsenal.

AFTER narrowly avoiding relegation, most fans would celebrate a top-half finish with the sort of gusto usually reserved for Champions League winners.

Mile Sterjovski and Marc Edworthy could return to Derby’s squad for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League trip to West Ham.

Derby manager Paul Jewell will select from an unchanged squad against West Ham.

HAVE Everton run out of steam as the race for the fourth and final Champions League spot enters the finishing straight?

Everton lost Tony Hibbert (hip) and Steven Pienaar (knee) for the Premier League meeting with relegated Derby, while Phil Jagielka was rested to the bench from the team that lost at Liverpool last weekend.

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson has made two changes for today’s rock-bottom Premier League clash with Derby at Pride Park with his side surely never standing a better chance of ending their 32-match winless streak away from home.

ROY KEANE’S temptation to succumb to the roaring passion, which has so often been the catalyst for volcanic eruptions, must be stronger than ever.

Derby boss Paul Jewell looks set to field his strongest possible line-up for tomorrow’s FA Cup fourth-round tie with Preston at Pride Park.

Derby manager Paul Jewell is likely to hand debuts to a number of players for tomorrow’s visit of his former club Wigan to Pride Park.

PAUL JEWELL must be the only Premier League manager that views a fortuitous draw against a struggling Championship side as a step in the right direction.

Danny Mills goes straight into the Derby squad for Sunday’s FA Cup third-round tie against Sheffield Wednesday at Pride Park.

BOLTON got off to a winning start in 2008 in what could be Nicolas Anelka’s last match for the club.

Derby boss Paul Jewell faces a striker dilemma ahead of tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League game at Bolton after selling Steve Howard to Leicester.

Derby manager Paul Jewell made three changes to his side as they went in search of their second league win of the season.

Derby face Blackburn in a Premier League clash at Pride Park on Sunday with boss Paul Jewell’s squad at breaking point.

Derby manager Paul Jewell will take a head count ahead of his side’s Barclays Premier League clash with Liverpool at Pride Park on St Stephen's Day.

Derby midfielder Matt Oakley is a doubt for the Barclays Premier League trip to Newcastle.

Derby manager Paul Jewell is again without defenders Andy Todd and Marc Edworthy for his first home game in charge tomorrow.

Derby boss Paul Jewell is hoping a ’flu bug does not take hold ahead of tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford.

IF England’s chastened superstars still harboured any illusions as to the scale of the nation’s anger at their recent woes, this bile-soaked evening at Pride Park would have put them right.

STEVE COPPELL was a relieved man after Kevin Doyle’s first League goal of the season gave the Royals a much-needed victory against Derby.

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