Derby County

Strupar was born in Croatia. He startes his career with Spansko Zagreb, one of the smaller clubs in Zagreb. In 1994 he made the move to the Belgian club Racing Genk. At that moment Genk played in our first division. In his second year with Genk, Branko Strupar lead his team towards promotion to our premier division. In only his second year in the premier division Branko Strupar became top goalscorer with 22 goals. The same season (1997/98) Genk became vice-champions and won the cup. Unfortunately for Branko he was injured for the cup final. The next season (1998/99) was even better for Genk ... more

My love of Derby County started back in the early 1970's. As I live in Derby, I decided to give the local football team. Well. that was it, from that moment on I was in love with Derby County Football Club. I now have a season ticket and go to as many away games as I can. Believe me, Derby are a different team this season. Craig Burley, although injured at the moment, is pivotal in our rise up the table. Bjørn Otto Bragstad, Youl Mawene and Danny Higinbotham will be great defenders for us, they just need to adjust or settle down to premiership playing. Kinkladze is a super hero already, his ... more

We have the ability to stay up this year and even push for Europe. In our first couple of seasons, we out-did anyone's expectations and shocked a lot of people who thought we would go straight back down. Last season was terrible and a lot of Forest fans were probably rubbing their hands. There wasn't really any logical reason for how bad we were. We do have the players to do the job. When you look at the class we have in the side i.e..Burley; Kinkladze; Johnson; Poom; Carbonari etc.. there is great potential. I think we have a great midfield General in Craig Burley and hopefully this season ... more

Everybody this season is tipping Derby County Football Club for relegation. But i ask this question, why? If you take out last seasons disastre Derby have finished 16th, 12th and 8th respectivly since gaining promotion from division one and moving from the Baseball ground to Pride Parl. When Derby finished 8th their squad was significantly weaker than it is now, so i think that this season derby will be staying up for for and i see no reason why derby can not challange for Europe and win a cup. One reason why i think Derby County FC can achieve this because of their loyal fans. I know of one ... more

A couple of years everybody was amazed at Derby’s Premiership campaign however, last year ended up with a less than expected 16th place. This time round I believe that they will survive the campaign and improve slightly to 15th place. This may all change though depending on how Georgi Kinkladze recovers from his hernia operation. A couple of seasons ago, Kinkladze set the Premiership alight with Manchester City and he was destined for the top clubs. Things seemed to have gone a bit wrong for him since though, and he is now back in the Premiership at what could be a bargain £3 million providing ... more