
Nottingham Forest and Derby County are notorious rivals, so when Robert Earnshaw decided to directly cross that divide in 2008, he was simply making a rod for him own back at the City Ground. Fortunately, he managed to turn things around quickly.
Having become Derby's record signing when joining them for £3.5m from Norwich in the summer of 2007, Earnshaw arrived at Pride Park hoping to keep the Rams in the Premier League. He managed to score just once in the top flight, though, with a controversial £2.65m transfer to Nottingham Forest going through after just one season.