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Derby Telegraph comment: That really was a payment in loo

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Even taking into account the recruitment of Brian Clough, Roy McFarland, Raich Carter et al, it is luridly fascinating to learn that the most crucial bit of business in the history of Derby County was conducted in the gentlemen's toilets.

Anton Rippon's flashback today to the 1984 crisis reveals that it was in the loos at the High Court in London that Stuart Webb handed over the payment of the club's debts to an Inland Revenue representative.

That paved the way, a few minutes later, for a judge lifting the threat of the club being wound up.

Good job it was in London, though, and not at the Baseball Ground. Fans with a long enough memory will recall that it was only absolute desperation that would have persuaded anybody to use the gruesome loos in the stadium for any type of business in those days…


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