Derby County manager Steve McClaren has been named the Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month for November.

After starting the month with a 3-2 victory away to Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby then won back-to-back homes games with a 3-0 success against Rotherham United and a 1-0 win over Norwich City.McClaren saw off competition from Aston Villa’s Steve Bruce, Jaap Stam of Reading and Blackburn Rovers’ Owen Coyle to win the award.He said: “It’s been a big team effort; this award is one for the rest of the staff and the players because they’ve done the work. I’ve been very lucky to come back into a good situation here and inherit a really good squad and backroom team.“Chris Powell, Kevin Phillips, Pascal Zuberbuhler, Steve Haines and the medical team have been fantastic and the players have bought into what we want to do. We got the rewards with the points we picked up in November.”Former Derby boss George Burley chairs the Sky Bet Manager of the Month judging panel.He said: “The results have shown what a great decision Derby County made reappointing Steve McClaren for a second time.“Steve has got them scoring goals and winning games again.”Sky Sports’ EFL pundit Don Goodman said: “Steve McClaren needed little time to get back to winning ways after his return to Derby.“An away victory at Wolves, where they put their goalscoring troubles to bed, was the catalyst. They backed that up by easing past Rotherham and Norwich to make it a perfect month.“Steve’s return seems to have given the whole club a lift. There’s still a lot of work to do for him, but it seems that promotion is no longer an impossibility.”Sky Bet Football Trading Manager Paul Lowery said: “Steve McClaren has returned to his spiritual home for his fourth stint as a player or manager.“His side are firmly back in the promotion reckoning at 4/1 with Sky Bet. The Rams were 7/2 for promotion when betting opened at the start of the season but had drifted out to as big as 12/1 before Steve returned.”





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