Miss of the century.....

wassa there was 1651 forest fans at game last night

That's left me wondering what was the worst close-range Derby miss I've ever seen.

The one that springs to mind is Wanchope against Cov in the last few mins of the game, when we needed to equalise (can't remember the year, and I can't find it on Youtube).

Can anybody think of any spectacular 'Findleys' that we were guilty of?

Three spring to mind for me.

There's the old classic 'miss of the season' where Roger Davies waltzed around Peter Bonetti and fell over the ball and the one where John Harkes did the same at Wembley against Fester.

Neither were as glaring a miss as Findley's, and both could be explained away by the forward (term used loosely in John Harkes's case) losing balance because of a complex manoeuvre (in Harkes's case, standing and breathing at the same time was probably beyond him).

The worst Derby miss I ever saw was by Ian Buxton back in around 1966. No idea who it was against, but he had scored two already, had a completely open goal from no more than a yard out and went for the 'flash' one, smashing the ball high into the net for his hat-trick.

He very nearly made the roof at the Normanton End.

Your memory is better than mine, Eddie - I was at Wembley for that match, and I can't remember a John Harkes miss at all.

Mind you, I'd quaffed a few 'breakfast beers' on the coach down there; I'm surprised I made it into the ground.

Wassa,

I've seen Jom on tv. I caught him on Mastermind. His speciality subject was,

Derby County catering contracts, 2008-2010.

He did really well, but in the second round, passed on loads of questions about Forest's debt.

I missed that one, Cap'n.

Did he get any questions on Derby going into admin after failing to pay the VAT bill? (FACT)

Or the renaming of the ground? (FACT)

I do miss Uncle Jom.

Didn't JOM convert owd Kenny to The Dark Side?

I suspect there was one less empty pink seat at The Kennel thanks to JOM.

What about the Jomism where our game (v Donny?) was off because we couldn't afford the electricity bill to fire up the under-pitch heating?

Sheep Botherer - it was about 3 minutes before Fester hit the winner.