Southampton: What does it mean to be Premier League’s worst team and will Saints replace Derby?

Throughout Derby’s torrid season, they gained one sport, scored 20 objectives and completed with a objective distinction of -69.

They suffered some heavy defeats, dropping by 5 objectives or extra to Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham, Chelsea and Aston Villa.

Derby participant Andy Todd later mentioned many gamers “threw the towel in” throughout that marketing campaign, whereas supervisor Paul Jewell revealed he was suggested by no means to take the job.

“The atmosphere was almost pantomime-like at times with chants of ‘let’s pretend we scored a goal’ and ‘you’re nothing special – we lose every week’,” Derby County fan Amelia Warren instructed BBC Sport.

“Those kinds of things are obviously not what you want to hear your fans chanting, but ultimately we had to make our own fun. If we didn’t laugh we’d cry!”

It was such an terrible season that Jewell, who arrived in November 2007 and left in December 2008, mentioned his managerial profession “never really recovered”.

But Derby followers made probably the most of a nasty scenario.

“Weirdly, I think Derby fans have worn the ‘worst team in history’ tag as a badge of honour,” mentioned Barker, the host and creator of Derby podcast RamsTalk.

“The team was awful, got battered most weeks, won one game all season, which I missed, and yet still sold out every week, which in my eyes shows how good this fanbase was and still is.”