Every Cloud (or Two Worlds Collide Part 2)

A week or so ago, the poster of the month awards for the last three months were posted on this Blog/Forum/Website. Once again there was no mention of us, with the awards going to people who address the general football issues of the day and thus (most importantly it seems) get loads of comments.

Being pretty proud of the stuff we post online and generally being a competitive sort of chap, its fair to say I was (pathetically?) a bit disgruntled by yet another snub by the 'award givers' of the Fanzone. 

Our season has been over since Christmas. Every game is roughly the same - good start, occasionally take the lead, individual error, defence caves, we get hammered, fans are immense, the futures really bright.  Paul Jewell himself has said he hates his press conferences for that exact reason.

Despite this, we (two of us do it) post here every Sunday night without fail and always put a twist or a personal touch to proceedings. If any other poster on here had had the season we'd had, they'd have given up weeks ago. It seems some have anyway.

Anyway, at almost the exact same moment I read the poster of the month awards, I got an email from Nuts magazine saying that Derby has won their Premiership supporters of the year award. They wanted to come to Derby for the Arsenal game and get a couple of their girls to offer some tea and sympathy to our much maligned fans, all to be filmed to be on MTV (thats M for Music not N for Nuts) in a week or so.   

A few phone calls later, two of our lads are in the back of a camper van outside Pride Park being filmed discussing "where it all went wrong" with Kayleigh Pearson and Lindsey Strutt (go on Google them!). Just when you thought this season couldn't get more surreal.

As a parting shot and a thank you for our involvement in the aforementioned 'tea and sympathy' piece, we've now been furnished with tickets for the actual Nuts football awards ceremony next Wednesday at Cafe De Paris in London. The only protocol being we have to wear Derby shirts!

So rather than waiting for a bottle of bubbly to be delivered courtesy of the Times, four of us will be tipping copious amounts of it on our head next week, in a room full of glamour models, ex footballers and C list celebrities. Every Cloud....

Oh if you were wondering about Saturdays game at Blackburn -  good start, took the lead, individual error, defence caved, we got hammered, fans were immense, the futures really bright.

C Spaceram
www.ramspace.co.uk

PS - Milan Mandric - Respect!