Derby County’s home game against Middlesbrough this weekend has been nominated as the club’s annual Remembrance fixture.
Phillip Cocu’s side will take on Boro at Pride Park Stadium on Saturday 2nd November (3pm kick-off) in their latest Sky Bet Championship fixture.
The match is Derby’s closest home match in advance of Remembrance Sunday, which this year falls on 10th November.
Ahead of kick-off on Saturday, those in attendance will be asked to observe the playing of the Last Post while a wreath will also be laid on the Pride Park pitch in the lead-up to the match getting underway.
Military personnel will be in attendance throughout the day to help raise money for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal and a collection will also be staged both outside and inside the ground should supporters wish to make a donation.
All of Derby players will have a poppy displayed on their shirts for the match, as well as for the local derby at Nottingham Forest on Saturday 9th November (12:30pm kick-off).
The match shirts will be auctioned off following the conclusion of the Forest game, with all proceeds going to the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
Details of the auction will be confirmed in due course and communicated to supporters.
The annual Remembrance Fixture is one of the key dates in the club’s calendar and in 2014 a specially commissioned War Memorial Plaque was erected next to the Lionel Pickering Entrance at Pride Park Stadium.
The Plaque bears the names of six former players of the club who sadly died in the First World War, whilst also remembering the many others with Derby County connections who answered the call to serve King and Country in two World Wars.
As part of the Remembrance activities in 2018, trees were planted at the Training Centre to serve as living legacies to the hundreds of footballers who served and fell in the First World War.
We Will Remember Them.
