Derby County’s new monthly magazine The Rampage has launched today and is packed full of exclusive interviews and club-centric content.
To give you a flavour of what to expect in the first edition of the magazine, we are releasing an extract to whet the appetite to coincide with its official release.
Along with interviews with the current Derby team, including manager Phillip Cocu and defender Craig Forsyth, former player Dean Saunders took us back to his days playing under Arthur Cox.
As witty as ever and with his gift for storytelling as good as his knack for finding the back of the net, the Welsh ex-striker recalled some of his favourite memories from his three-year spell with the Rams.
Here is an extract from the piece you can read exclusively in The Rampage from this Thursday:
There were plenty of ups and downs during that period for the Rams, but it was the team off the field that kept them going sometimes. Roy McFarland, Gordon Guthrie and Jimmy Sirrel were all part of Cox’s backroom staff and pitched in with ideas and training sessions.
And it was a bizarre one-to-one session by Sirrel which will always stick out in Saunders’ mind.
“I remember once I missed a penalty on the Saturday and on Monday morning, Jimmy came in the dressing room and said: ‘come with me, son’,” he remembered. “He took me out on the Baseball Ground and put the ball on the spot, just me and him.
“Picture this, he has a three-piece suit on and a pair of expensive shoes. It was muddy, like you would expect, and he put the ball on the penalty spot. He did a massive run up, sprinted to the ball and smashed it as hard as he could and said: ‘that’s how you take a penalty, son’. He did that and then we walked back inside. It was hilarious!”
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