As a soccer fan, you recognize you’ll endure devastating lows and extraordinary highs, it’s simply a part of devoting your self to the membership that you simply love. As Derby County followers, it looks like we’ve skilled much more of the lows just lately.
This time final yr we have been wanting again and reflecting on what may need been because the play-offs slipped away and we have been confronted with one other season in League One. Like you, I used to be in ache that day however, after 24 hours, I brushed myself down and commenced to look ahead to the brand new season.
I sensed one thing particular was constructing at Pride Park. I felt we have been already so shut – albeit not fairly shut sufficient – that I couldn’t be too despondent within the face of that disappointment. The seeds of success have been there, they only needed to be nurtured.
That’s why this feels so very, very particular now these seeds have blossomed into the enjoyment of promotion again to the Championship.
There have been darkish occasions throughout this season, after all there have been. Nothing that’s actually price savouring comes simply, as Derby County followers we should always all know that solely too effectively!
But we stayed robust as a membership, gamers, workers and followers all shoulder-to-shoulder within the face of the adversity we inevitably confronted, and we got here by it collectively.
I don’t want reminding why this membership means a lot to so many however on days when this stadium has been rocking or we’ve packed out away ends everywhere in the nation, I do know why supporters deserve these moments of pleasure.
Your dedication has been matched by Paul Warne and the gamers. It’s not solely the folks you see each Saturday or in midweek, although, it’s additionally all these behind the scenes who work tirelessly in each facet of their each day jobs to help the group on the pitch.
I don’t wish to hold reminiscent of when the way forward for this membership was underneath menace as a result of we wish to write new tales.
However, one of many deciding elements behind our determination to purchase the membership was the thought that Derby followers and generations of Derby followers to come back is likely to be disadvantaged of moments like this, when all of the dangerous occasions are forgotten for a second of treasured pleasure.
It’s too simple to say the laborious work begins right here, though it does as we plan for all times within the Championship. Before that, although, we should always all take a while to get pleasure from what’s been achieved and the way far we’ve come this season. You, Paul, the gamers, and all people on the membership deserves that.
Over the final couple of seasons, I’ve bought used to watching matches from my seat within the Directors Box. The feelings are simply as robust, the ache once we lose is simply as intense and the pleasure of victory simply as nice.
But I inform you what, there’s simply the odd event after I’d wish to be again in my outdated seat, shouting and singing, surrounded by ardour.
Saturday was a type of days!
Enjoy each second, you all deserve it.
David Clowes
