Derby County officially enter administration and are deducted 12 points
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Ed Dawes, Derby County commentator for BBC Radio Derby:
Disbelief, tears, anger and frustration. The emotions of supporters of Derby County since Friday evening.
Saturday’s win over Stoke City and the atmosphere at Pride Park was a stopgap to the eventual reality that the Rams would be placed bottom of the Championship, which is now where they are.
Questions surrounding chairman Mel Morris’ ‘cut and run’, as it has been called by many supporters, still need to be answered and perhaps we will only find out now what state the football club is in.
A debt of more than £50m is not going to be turned around by the likes of a Lionel Pickering, the Rams’ former chairman who spent his entire local newspaper fortune on the club. It will need to be a global multi-millionaire who can run a business and a football club, but be happy to wipe out the debt owed in one fell swoop.
The worry for supporters is not only the immediate 12-point deduction, it is the next move by the EFL regarding the unsubmitted accounts. Morris told me exclusively on Sunday that there is a failure of profit and sustainability rules in the recalculated documents following the amortisation saga, which in turn could lead to more points being taken off.
The one thing that is obvious around Derby right now is the togetherness of the fans and support for Wayne Rooney. Every battle needs a leader and Rooney is that man. He is unlikely to keep Derby in the Championship, but he told me on Saturday he is committed to the club and to navigate this journey. Whether that will be up to him and his price, rather than his ability, we will have to wait.
The club nearly went bust in 1984 in their centenary season, while the 2021-22 season marks 50 years since Brian Clough’s side won their first old First Division title. A penny for his thoughts.
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