Derby Debacle

Derby County were always going to be relegated this season. Clearly they did not have the playing staff to make the step up to the Premiership, they barely had the players to get themselves out of the Championship.

What is not so clear is why the board gave Billy Davies the chance to spend some money before the season started, and then proceeded to sack him when Derby struggled to establish themselves in the early part of the season.

He signed the best players his budget could attract, but not the players that could take Derby to the next level. While the teams around them went and signed proven players, Richardson going to Sunderland for example, Derby could only add the likes of Eddie Lewis and Rob Earnshaw.

So what expectations did the board have of Billy Davies? Surely they should have been proclaiming him as their messiah because he took them to the promised land with a team that had no right to make it into the play-offs to start with.

Instead of this they sacked him not long into his first crack at Premiership management. In a strange way they have done his CV a favour as he won't have to put a relegation on it just yet. He definitely deserved better treatment than this though.

Paul Jewell has made it obvious that he does not rate the squad he has inherited, but the signings he made himself have done nothing to improve Derby's performances. Robbie Savage has done little, and well Laurent Robert has been a non-entity.

All this goes to show that the people in the most important positions in football are often the ones who know the least and make the worst decisions.

Don't even get me started on the decision makers at FIFA.....................