Derby County won the English First Division title twice in the 1970sOn a deserted suburban Derby street on the night of Monday, 8 May 1972, two men were jumping in jubilation next to a white Ford Capri.Crackling through on the car radio was news that Wolves had beaten Don Revie’s Leeds United in the final game of the season.With it came confirmation that Brian Clough’s Derby County were English First Division champions.The two men hugging and celebrating wildly, trying to raise the residents of Littleover after a tense and seemingly endless amount of added time at Molineux, were Rams captain Roy McFarland and fellow defender Colin Todd.”I tell you what, we made enough noise,” McFarland told BBC Sport.”Colin got out of the car, we hugged. We were just elated, jumping up and down and shouting, making as much noise as we could to get the people coming out of their houses.”No-one did emerge, with the two players marking the momentous moment with their partners before setting off in the Capri for Hendon Hall in London to meet up with Alf Ramsey’s England squad.McFarland, now aged 74, recalls being crowned champions while standing outside a row of houses as “surreal”, having paced up and down the street waiting for the result from the Leeds game to come through after Liverpool, another title challenger, had already drawn with Arsenal.A 1-0 victory against Bill Shankly’s Liverpool at a packed Baseball Ground in Derby a week earlier had put the Rams top of the… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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Derby County: How Brian Clough’s Rams won the First Division title 50 years ago
