He left with a record of just 13 wins in 58 matches, though he did take the club to their first major cup semi-final in over 30 years when the club reached the League Cup final four, where they lost 43 on aggregate to eventual winners Manchester United. opened the scoring in the opening ten minutes before Arsenal took over to win 31 with Ian Wright grabbing the last ever first team goal at the ground in the 90th minute.[11]. Such abandon often left the side defensively frail however, and there were heavy defeats along the way including a 30 defeats to Ipswich Town and Carlisle United, who finished the season bottom, and 41 to Q.P.R. Although there were two Derby players, Mark Wright and Peter Shilton (who became Derby's most capped player that campaign) in the England team that reached the 1990 World Cup semi-finals the club could only manage a 16th-place finish in 198990 and endured an even worse campaign the following year. Despite overseeing two defeats in his first two games, Clough soon turned the club's form around, taking them to the 5th round of the FA Cup and just 3 defeats in 13 matches, a run which included 4 consecutive wins. The 29-year-old signed for the Rams on a free transfer from Wycombe Wanderers last August on a one-year contract. Phillip Whitehead. The EFL confirmed Derby would face a 12-point deduction. Bobby Davison (who finished top league scorer for the fifth season on a row, with 19 strikes, taking his league tally to 82 in 5 years) and Phil Gee grabbed 32 goals between them, half of Derby's total, and Cox's team set a club record with 11 away league victories to secure a return to top-flight football after a traumatic seven years away. The club settled into mid-table mediocrity until Brian Clough and Peter Taylor arrived in 1967 and transformed the club. Form declined badly and key players departed Paul Goddard was sold to Millwall for 800,000 whilst injuries bit into a squad increasingly short of depth. 1. The 1970s remains Derby County's most glorious decade with two First Division championships and those great European nights. With no money for players, and the need to slash the club's wage bill, big names such as Fabrizio Ravanelli, Georgi Kinkladze and Craig Burley left the club with the gaps of their departure shored up by free signings; Candido Costa was taken on a season long loan whilst seven others including Mathias Svensson and Leon Osman were recruited on short-term loans, as Derby used a club record 36 different players in the course of the season. Despite interest from Westley in taking the position of manager, former Preston North End boss Billy Davies was appointed Derby County's new permanent manager, having taken Preston North End into the playoffs in the previous two seasons. Despite such struggles Saunders had managed an impressive 17 goals, almost half of Derby's 37 total, and it was no surprise that the club failed to hold on to him as he was sold to Liverpool for 2.9m (over 2m more than the previous record fee received for a Derby player), along with Mark Wright, who commanded a 2.3m.
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