Derby 0-6 Aston Villa

Apr 13 2008

DERBY boss Paul Jewell talked before this game of giving the club's fans a glimmer of light in a dark season - instead it got worse, much worse.

After a performance that could only be described as embarrassing, he said: "It is difficult to accept that sort of performance.

"We played quite well for the first 20 minutes but as soon as we concede a goal we collapse like a pack of cards.

"It is a horrible situation we are in and it is uncomfortable.As soon as we face a bit of adversity we don't have enough leaders to get us through it.

"Once they scored the difference in class was huge."

There is no doubt that this season from hell plumbed new depths for Jewell's men.

Keeper Roy Carroll had a bad day at the office. First he failed to clear Ashley Young's free-kick for Villa's first.

John Carew got a second soon after before ex-Celt Stilian Petrov (right) lashed the keeper's poor clearance into the net from 45 yards.

After the break Gareth Barry, Gabriel Agbonlahor and Marlon Harewood rounded off the scoring.