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WOULD ROO BELIEVE IT?

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The LeaguePaper Team
2 May 2021

Championship relegation battle goes right to the wire
By John Lyons

DETERMINED Wayne Rooney has urged his Derby County players to stand up and be counted as they prepare to fight for their Championship lives with Rotherham and Sheffield Wednesday next Saturday.
The Rams would have put themselves on the brink of safety if they’d beaten Swansea yesterday, but they let slip a 1-0 lead to crash to their sixth defeat on the spin.
Rotherham and Sheffield Wednesday both edged a point closer to the Rams after draws, against Blackburn and Nottingham Forest respectively.
Rotherham are thr...

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