Former Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Carlton Palmer has predicted whether Derby County will go up to the Championship this season.
Derby County were close to going out of business altogether before David Clowes stepped in and saved the club.
During the fractious Mel Morris ownership, negativity circulated Pride Park as points deductions and skyrocketing debts saw the Rams relegated to League One in 2022.
In their first season back in the third tier, Derby narrowly missed out on the play-offs, but Paul Warne’s troops are threatening to go one better this term by winning promotion automatically.
The newly found stability of the David Clowes ownership has allowed the club to dream once more and entering the final 10 matches of the season, they are one point adrift of second-place Bolton Wanderers, who they play next Saturday.
With as many as five teams capable of finishing in the top two, promotion is impossible to call at this stage but Carlton Palmer believes Derby will win automatic promotion.
Carlton Palmer believes Derby County will win promotion
Speaking to Football League World, the former Sheffield Wednesday player said: “I’d say Portsmouth are going to get the first automatic spot and it’s between the other four. Barnsley and Peterborough both have a game in hand so if Barnsley win theirs, that puts them level with Bolton with the same games, and Peterborough will only be two behind.
