A Brief History Of: The Worst Premier League team in history

A Brief History Of: The Worst Premier League team in history

In 2007/08, Derby County finished the season with 11 points, winning just one game. It was the lowest ever points tally in a Premier League season.

Seb Stafford-Bloor explores the turbulent rise from the division below with Billy Davies in the driving seat, how it was doomed from the start, and had completely unraveled by halfway.

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[mrbismarck]

Now do Ipswich Town finishing fifth in the Premier League, then the following season beating Inter Milan, getting relegated and declaring bankruptcy all at once.

[petergrossett]

Derby fans were the best that season, they sold out all the home matches despite the dire results. They deserved a mention in this video.

[Minngeh]

It's impossible to go winless if Newcastle's in the prem

Edit: End of an era HWTL

[joshuataylor]

Sheffield United trying their best to beat this.

[StevenFTM]

As a Sunderland fan, thank you Derby. I never thought anybody could top our 15 points.

[judgejudyandexecutioner.]

If only they had selected Tifos pick, Ibrahim Sangare

[shogunraid]

Worst Premier League team in history?
Should have signed Jeremy "Swaz Tekkerz" Lynch

[joperhop]

Blaming the manager who is sacked, who happened to bring up valid issues, replace him with a good battle manager, only for it to carry on. Something tells me this was not Billy Davis's fault.

[PrinceOfCats]

I'm a Derby fan and had a season ticket this season. I have so many stories about this clusterfuck...You did forget that not only was the side 20th in the championship the year before, but we had money siphoned out of the club and were over £50 million in debt. The owners all subsequently went to jail over it. I thought the club would go bust

[MrPYool]

"Survival specialist" and then they draw a jungle around him.
This is especially funny because, in South Africa, we often refer to relegation as "going/falling into the bush" in our vernacular.

[stee]

Getting to 12 points is still the first milestone me and my mates celebrate every season

[sij]

I’d like a video about Leicester City when the club got promoted to the Premier League under Nigel Pearson in 2014/15, the poor form they were initially in (Leicester City was bottom of the Premier League at Christmas), how they turned it around in the second half of the season, the circumstances of Nigel Pearson’s departure only to see the team he helped build win the Premier League title the following season in 2015/16 under his successor Claudio Rainieri. Nigel Pearson must have felt heartbroken 💔

[dibyanshkar]

They weren't bad. They just needed Ibrahim Sangare to succeed.

[CaptainDrunkles]

Imagine being a season ticket holder for that

[fahimmiah]

I can imagine a pundit ripping Robbie savage saying that your most memorable moment is being part of the 2008 Derby team

[GamingRobioto]

No mention of their only win? I remember it well, 1-0 v Newcastle, Kenny Miller getting the goal.

[neilmoores]

It’s weird that like Derby the only win in the league Sheffield United have had was against Newcastle.

[ReidTheRulesGuy]

I somehow didn't realize Feilhaber was a part of THIS Derby team. I've met Feilhaber because he played for my hometown Sporting Kansas City. If I ever meet him again I'll have to at least consider asking him about this experience.

[PaleSalad]

I'm really confused as to why tabloids can publish sex tapes without consent and not get prosecuted.

[andrewjenkins]

If they played Newcastle every week they would have won the league.