Bird and Collins fire Derby to promotion to Championship with win over Carlisle

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Derby are back. Not yet anywhere near their highest heights; the quest for Premier League football remains an ambition for some unspecified point in the future at the conclusion of what has been a wholesale rebuild of a club that came perilously close to disappearing altogether.

But, after the extent of their recent plight, the unbridled joy of this 2-0 final-day win over already relegated Carlisle to seal automatic promotion back to the Championship means a return to where a club like this belongs.

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