The East Midlands Derby Rivalry Derby County Nottingham Forest

 

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Both clubs have nearer neighbours in their own back yard, but they’ve never really hit it off with their inter-shire rivals due to divisional yo-yoing. Derby should really be directing their hatred towards Chesterfield, but they’ve only played each other 15 times in League and Cup. Forest’s nearest rivals are even closer than that, but they have only met Notts County (the oldest derby game in the world, remember) 95 times  the vast majority before the war. Fact: Forest and Derby have played each other two more times in the FA Cup this year than Forest and Notts did in the 20th century. Both parties would have to cast further afield for a hate club

Luckily, Nottingham and Derby have fostered a healthy dislike of each other ever since they both pitched themselves into the Industrial Revolution. Derby’s John Heathcoat invented a machine that copied hand-made lace, but as soon as the patent ran out, Notts entrepreneurs nicked it, turning the city into the lace centre of the world. Derby responded by poaching Sir Richard Arkwright (known as “the Father of the Industrial Revolution”) and turning him into the Alderman of Derbyshire, but the damage was done: Nottingham became the industrial powerhouse of the East Midlands, while Derby had to wait until 1977 to gain city status. The big city-rural backwater dichotomy (from a Notts point of view, at least, with all its ovinesexual connotations) was in place.

However, from a footballing point of view, it took a long time for the Forest- Derby rivalry to catch fire but when it did, it was glorious. A certain B Clough and P Taylor lit the touchpaper by dragging the Rams into Division One in the late Sixties and commencing a series of mainly high-scoring games which ended with Derby winning the league and Forest relegated in 1971-72. The next time they met, five and a half years later, the shoe was on the other foot, and Forest were kicking Derby in the teeth with it. Clough and Taylor  whose sacking made Rams supporters howl with outrage – were up the other end of the A52 and thumped Derby 3-0. By the end of the 1979-80 season, Forest had won their second European Cup and Derby were relegated from Division One. A perfect ending. Except it wasn’t. It’s an accepted notion that the end of the glory years for Clough and Forest was when Peter Taylor broke up the partnership when Derby poached him as manager. And for good measure, and just to make sure that neither man would ever speak to each other again, Taylor’s first signing was John Robertson, a player who meant as much to Forest supporters as Stuart Pearce did in ten years later, and nobody does today....