Fox Soccer Report / Fone-in.

A question posed on Fox Football Fone-in: Why doesn't Derby County manager allow Brazilian-born US international to play in Derby's matches given the appalling results posted by that team this season?
Derby boss Billy Davies' reply: “He was bought very much as a young player, very much for the medium to long term. I've told him that and he knows the situation.”
Seems to us that Davies is resigned to allow Derby to be the least successful club to have ever played in the Premier League. Someone said recently that instead of buying new players in the January 08 transfer window, it'd be cheaper to sack the manager. Finance seems to be a perennial problem at Derby.

On the FSR we see Leeds were beaten at home by Hereford Utd on a goal by Ainsworth in the third minute ( 0 - 1 ). There's some suspicion that Leeds are not that bothered about the FA Cup defeat when their escape from Division 1 must be some sort of priority for the Yorkshire team with financial problems.

Good news reported on Fox Soccer Report concerned a United Nations-sponsored 'Match against Poverty' between a Ronaldo Team and a Zidane Team ( 2 - 2 ). Awareness and money were both raised in the fight against poverty worldwide which sees 11,000,000 kids under five years old die of poverty-related causes each year. Italian referee Pierluigi Collina came out of retirement to officiate in this match for the second year running. Unicef's United States SHOP is here.