Derby County did not need Wayne Rooney as they boosted their play-off hopes with another impressive display by teenager Louie Sibley on his full League debut.

Wayne Rooney has criticised the government and the football authorities for treating players as 'guinea pigs' in their confused message over the coronavirus outbreak.

With the suspension of the Premier League and EFL, Orient have taken it upon themselves to start a 128-team FIFA 20 tournament, with clubs including Man City, Brentford and Derby set to take part.

Derby owner Mel Morris admits the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is likely to complicate his attempts to secure outside investment in the Championship club this summer.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Derby are close to agreeing a £30 million loan from MSD Capital, the investment company owned by American billionaire Michael Dell.

EXCLUSIVE: The EFL set the PFA a deadline of Friday to endorse their proposals for League-wide cuts and deferrals, but sources indicated that the players' union would reject this request.

The goal most people remember from Rooney's distinguished United career was a match-winning overhead kick in the Manchester derby, but his best goal in terms of footballing craft is different.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL AND ADRIAN KAJUMBA: Sportsmail understands the Rams board want the squad to forgo half of their pay, which would be paid back at a later date.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Sportsmail exclusively revealed how Rooney was acting on behalf of the squad in their battle against proposals to impose a 50 per cent wage deferral.

Sportsmail revealed last week that former England skipper Rooney was at the centre of tense talks with the Championship side, who had proposed 50 per cent wage deferrals to protect the club.

Rooney joined Derby County on an 18-month player-coach contract from MLS side DC United in January and was working closely with the club's first-team coaching staff before the coronavirus outbreak.

Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori has lauded manager Frank Lampard for giving him the confidence to emerge as one the club's breakthrough stars this season.

Bennett, who has been on loan at Millwall since January, was involved in a drunken car crash back in September with three Derby team-mates has infuriated the club's fans once again.

Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk about various aspects of the pandemic

Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up the views

The next crisis may be a climate one. Are we preempting it? Are we ready for it? Can technology help compensate for some of the downsides of social distancing? Alokananda Chakraborty sums up.

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Though people welcomed these initially, many now opine that some of these are unscientific and rather than helping the public

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

It has recommended reforms in labour and tax policies to make these two sectors globally competitive

Announces special scheme for leather & footwear industries for creating employment

For passenger safety, a fund to be created with a corpus of Rs 1 lakh cr over a period of 5 years

Government aims to take strategic crude oil reserve capacity to 15.33 MMT with two new facilities

Harmonisation of rules for medical devices will have a positive impact for healthcare sector

Focus on infrastructure is bound to channel lot of growth opportunities for downstream industries

More spends on the infrastructure & agriculture will put India on the growth path in the future

However, there are certain reductions in duties of components to promote domestic manufacturing

Some steps to cover recycling cost of end-of-life product would have helped e-waste recycling sector

Niche sectors such as robotics, will benefit hugely from skill development programs

Lagging behind in biosciences is not good for social security and strategic national security

Move to reduce corporate tax for MSME will boost exports & manufacturing at large

While agriculture got allocations of Rs 13,741 cr, fisheries & aquaculture received only Rs 401 cr

Reduction in corporate tax rates for MSME to give a boost to medium and small companies

Domestic industry says it encourages imports with all duties such as BCD, CVD, etc being waived off

Steps to encourage implementation of technology & its tools in Indian agriculture are positive

Abolition of FIPB to ease flow of FDI is a good move which will speed up the process

Budget's fiscal consolidation efforts will lead to stable economic growth of the country

Rs 10 lakh crores as credit to farmers is a good news for the agri and allied sector players

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