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It is very likely that Matthew Derbyshire will be transferred abroad within a matter of days.
The price has been agreed and the paperwork would appear to be a formality.
I believe the club have secured a great fee for a young man who if you look up overrated in the dictionary has his image next to it.
Overrated? What! The golden boy? How can you say something like that? He was born here for goodness sake! He's from Blackburn. He's perfect, wonderful, fabulous.
He's also one of the biggest suck ups in the whole game of football. Hence part of the reason for his popularity. Oh I'm local me, don't you forget it.
As far as I'm concerned as well as being overrated he's a disrespectful piece of garbage. That's a more refined way of putting it as well.
Derbyshire is the epitome of what's wrong in society. The finest example of someone who gets everything handed to them without earning it.
He worked his way through the ranks cry the fans? So what? All players have to work to reach a certain standard.
It's sickening to see someone like Jason Wilcox who had nothing but respect for this football club be treated abysmally by fans throughout his time here. Recently however he appeared at Ewood for a Q and A session alongside Kevin Gallacher.
Shows the type of classy individual Wilcox is spending an evening with people who treated him so badly. If I was in his position and offered such a proposal I would have told them to f*** off.
Wilcox failed to get the respect he deserved over several years at this club. Derbyshire simply on the basis of being local got hailed as some kind of hero on a par with the likes of Colin Hendry.
Or what about people like Benni McCarthy? A man with twice the talent of Derbyshire who is treated with nothing but disrespect for supposed laziness. It's because he's intelligent and unlike Derbyshire dosen't need to run round like a headless chicken in an attempt to "prove" what a hard worker he is. Ass kisser is what he is.
I'm almost surprised he didn't get a separate red carpet entrance at home games. After all he's local. That makes him so special.
So how did Derbyshire respond to this level of adulation. Was he grateful?
The truth is that Matthew Derbyshire (I don't refer to him as Matt because I'm certainly no fan or friend of his) was nothing but a ingrate well before he signed for this football club.
Recently I saw someone on a BRFC related forum ask what Jack Walker would have thought about Derbyshire going. That he wouldn't have been pleased to see such a "local hero" sold.
As far as I'm concerned if Jack was here and bought the club now Derbyshire would have been the first kicked out the door.
Matthew Derbyshire has no respect for Jack Walker whatsoever. That's right the man who built this great club into what it is. The man who made this club Premier League Champions and never asked for anything in return. Though it's possible he might have expected just a little bit of respect.
If you read my previous story on this site it was regarding Jack blocking Alan Shearer's wish to join Manchester United. In 1996 the fans were furious about him even being linked with them.
Yet Derbyshire prior to joining this club actually spoke about the possibility of joining Man United. Now some people might think if you get a call from Man United it would be foolish to turn them down.
As far as I'm concerned I would be less offended had he considered joining the Taliban. Though I very much doubt he would be considered given his ethnic status.
If Man United make an offer other top clubs will make an approach. If Derbyshire had any respect for Jack Walker whatsoever he would have refused to speak to them. The fact that he did is for me the equivalent of blasphemy.
Other remarks from Derbyshire include insinuating Kenny Dalglish was incompetent. That's right the greatest manager in the club's history being disrespected by a so-called supporter of the club.
Derbyshire remarked that an improvement in European form (which wasn't anything spectacular anyway) was thanks to Mark Hughes.
Now BRFC have had some European failures under numerous managers and Derbyshire could have picked any one of them. Yet he chose to bring up the Trelleborgs defeat in 1994 as his example of failure.
So what was Derbyshire saying? That Hughes was better than Dalglish? That Dalglish was incompetent? It sounds like that's what he was saying to me.
So how do the fans respond to this? Do they react with outrage to the slurs on club legends?
Not at all. They react like the soft touch, small minded, parochial brigade of supporters they are. I say that's what they are because I'm not blind to the faults of my own club's supporters.
Rovers fans have no respect for Jack Walker (if they did the owners wouldn't be getting such an easy ride) and the Derbyshire treatment further proves it.
I hear the Olympiakos v. Panathinaikos meetings could be considered a match made in hell.
So in a sense if Derbyshire secures a permanent move to Olympiakos he will be going straight to hell.
Sounds fitting.
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