Shaun Derry
Shaun Derry in 2011
Shaun Peter Derry ( born December 6, 1977 in Nottingham ) is an English football player and current coach of the English third division Notts County. As a player, he was active among others for the first division club Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers.
Playing career
Shaun Derry started his playing career in 1995 at his hometown club Notts County. In his second season, he rose with County as Table in the fourth league from. Between January 1998 and March 2000, he played 72 league games for the second division Sheffield United. According to another station when also playing in the second division club FC Portsmouth, Shaun Derry changed on 1 August 2002 at Crystal Palace. With his new team, he achieved promotion to the first division in the Football League First Division 2003/ 04. Palace had beaten in the play-off final in front of 72 523 spectators in Wembley West Ham United 1-0. However, the climber was the game class in the subsequent season not hold and went straight back out of the Premier League 2004 /05 from. The Shaun used in only seven Premier League matches Derry had been already awarded on 24 December 2004 to the second division relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest.
On February 18, 2005 Derry moved to second division club Leeds United. In the Football League Championship 2005/ 06 Derry moved to the far time in his career in a play-off final one. In contrast to 2004, Crystal Palace, but he lost on 21 May 2006 with Leeds 0:3 against FC Watford and thus missing out on promotion to the Premier League. In the subsequent season, the performance of the team deteriorated dramatically, culminating in relegation to the third tier. Shaun Derry had missed the last month of the season due to an injury in January 2007.
Between November 2007 and June 2010, he played for the second time in his career for the second division club Crystal Palace. On 22 June 2010 he signed a two -year contract with Queens Park Rangers. With the Rangers starting players won Shaun Derry ( 45 league games) the title in the Football League Championship 2010/11, rising for the second time in his career in the first division. In the Premier League 2011/ 12, the climber secured thanks to a point ahead of Bolton Wanderers in the league. In the 2012/13 season, however, was followed as a Table of relegation to the second division. Shaun Derry had been used in the two Erstligajahren in a total of 47 league games.
Coaching career
On November 6, 2013, the relegation- threatened English third division Notts County announced the commitment by Shaun Derry as player-coach. The 35- year-old midfielder was at that time on loan at second division Millwall FC. For the return to his hometown club to Nottingham he took the possibly premature end of his playing career in purchasing, since he can not play for a third club in one season due to the rules of the Football League.
Achievements
As a player:
- Promotion to the Premier League: 2003 /04
- Promotion to the Premier League: 2010/11