Match report and analysis following Derby County's 2-1 defeat at Leicester City in the EFL Championship. Plus the 4-4-2 and the potential arrival of Oscar Fraulo.

Report and analysis from Derby County's 1-1 Boxing Day draw at Birmingham City in the EFL Championship.

In the driving rain on a cold Monday night at Hillsborough, the ball breaks for Liam Thompson.   He takes a touch before finding the bottom-right corner with an effort he had drilled into the ground, prompting a rush towards a rapturous away end of 3,900.   But the pain he feels as he unwittingly knee-slides on AstroTurf is nothing compared to that felt by administration-stricken Sheffield Wednesday.   Could there have been a more fitting opponent for Thompson, who broke into

Forget jelly and ice cream, forget the cake, Blackburn Rovers had more corners than a Müller factory at their 150 th  birthday party. Among the esteemed guests, Colin Hendrie, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tony Mowbray and David Dunn. An array of cultured footballing folk, invited back to Ewood Park.   But less welcome returns were made by John Eustace, and the band of former Blackburn players within his Derby side, whose job it was to sour the occasion. And that they did, surely sh

Match report and analysis with quotes from John Eustace and Will Still following the 1-1 EFL Championship draw between Derby County and Southampton.

“Nowhere near good enough” and then “great”.  It was a game of two halves (and Derby formations) according to John Eustace, as his side fell to defeat at home to Preston.

A bird of prey swooped down and dropped a dead pigeon on the pitch: that was the turning point.   If you are expecting a metaphor about...