Derby fans, as many are no doubt aware, are drawn from two camps – the ‘blind faithers’, for whom the glass is always half full going on brimming over, and the ‘wrist-slashers’ who reckon that, irrespective of the volume contained, the stem will break any second. There is seldom any overlap – wrists, once slashed, stay slashed.

League Two this season kicks off with the near farcical situation in competitive terms of one club starting with minus 30 points and two others with minus 17 points. Many fans feel that the treatment given to Luton, in particular, 20 of whose points were deducted by the Football League because this is their third administration is very harsh.

Football is back (some would say too soon) and despite what has been a very active summer for the club, we can get back to writing about what is really important to most fans – the match-day.

Here's an interesting test: how many of us could name, off the top of our heads, all the players who've appeared in a Rams shirt in the last five seasons? It's a tough one, isn't it? The more you think, the more names keep coming back to you. Tough? It's nigh on impossible.