Derby County fans still sing about the time Stan Collymore broke a leg at Pride Park and there’s certainly no love lost from them towards the former Nottingham Forest forward.
But former Forest, Liverpool and England striker Collymore is a huge fan of Midlands football and loves the fact Paul Warne has got the Rams on the charge in League One. And having played lower league football as well as the Premier League game, he knows a team brimming with confidence when he sees one.
Which is why he’s backing Derby to pull off a shock by beating David Moyes’s top-flight strugglers West Ham in the FA Cup fourth round on Monday.
