Thanks and Apologies to Nigel Pearson

[inckley fox]

I don't think anyone blames people for thinking he couldn't do it, certainly not around Feb / March time. That's pretty understandable and everyone virtually said they they understood the criticism around then.

As always those who come in for stick are the ones that have always had the knives out for him. We all know who they are, they were wanting him gone before the season started, then as soon as a few games were lost.

The ones quick to criticise and slow to give credit. The ones who call him names and go ridiculously over the top.

The ones who apportion all blame to the manager when there are two sides to a story.

The ones who said he couldn't get us out of league one, or the championship, or keep us up. The ones who constantly say "we achieved xxxx inspite of Pesrson not because of him".

I don't know how many times I read stuff like "it's a disgrace we're below Burnley, he should be sacked for that alone". Every time I'd respond by saying we were behind them for about half a season last year also and look where we ended up. That it's where you finish that matters, not where you are in February.

Those are the ones people want to stick two fingers up to.

 

Oh, I see what you're saying. There are still a few people trying to paint our achievement in a more negative light, but it is what it is. We're the only side of the three to stay up, and we've done it with the same manager who wiped the floor with the others last year, who took us up from the third and turned us into promotion challengers. He's a great Leicester manager and it was wrong to doubt him. I spent a great deal of time on here in late 2011, early 2012, arguing - along with you - that it was insane for people to wish Sven had stayed on, or that Pearson should already be on his way out. At no point in over half a decade has he been anything other than a very good Leicester manager, and now - having taken us up two tiers and kept us there, and grown as a manager in the process - he might even be a bit more than that.

 

You do have to give it to inckley he does at least try and think about things instead of posting garbage.

 

Even if he is making a habbit of being consistently wrong.

 

Well, I was wrong this time wasn't I? No question about that. And yes, on Nugent / Lawrence / Powell. Yes, I remember that one too. But I think you were the one who insisted that Schlupp was crap, so I've at least got that going for me, for now at least. And, you know, there was a sensible argument against Pearson for a while. I enjoyed the debates, as I always do with the likes of Babylon and yourself, and I enjoy the fact that you turned out to be right - on one or two matters, at least - even more.

 

Muzzy Izzet WAS good enough to play for England, though. And Mike Whitlow was better than Paul Konchesky. 

[MC Prussian]

Oh, I see what you're saying. There are still a few people trying to paint our achievement in a more negative light, but it is what it is. We're the only side of the three to stay up, and we've done it with the same manager who wiped the floor with the others last year, who took us up from the third and turned us into promotion challengers. He's a great Leicester manager and it was wrong to doubt him. I spent a great deal of time on here in late 2011, early 2012, arguing - along with you - that it was insane for people to wish Sven had stayed on, or that Pearson should already be on his way out. At no point in over half a decade has he been anything other than a very good Leicester manager, and now - having taken us up two tiers and kept us there, and grown as a manager in the process - he might even be a bit more than that.

 

 

Well, I was wrong this time wasn't I? No question about that. And yes, on Nugent / Lawrence / Powell. Yes, I remember that one too. But I think you were the one who insisted that Schlupp was crap, so I've at least got that going for me, for now at least. And, you know, there was a sensible argument against Pearson for a while. I enjoyed the debates, as I always do with the likes of Babylon and yourself, and I enjoy the fact that you turned out to be right - on one or two matters, at least - even more.

 

Muzzy Izzet WAS good enough to play for England, though. And Mike Whitlow was better than Paul Konchesky. 

That's not particularly hard, is it? Because Whitlow left the club at around the same age at which Konchesky joined Leicester.

 

One arguably spent the prime of his career at Filbert Street, the other saw his fade out at the King Power.

[cjslcfc]

let's make it less crass.

We're congratulating a person for doing the job they were supposed to be doing, but didn't do very well for 20 weeks resulting in us being in the mess he is being praised for getting us out of.

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Let's put it this way. If we had just stumbled across the season picking up points here and there and had finished 14th and safe with a game to spare, would you have congratulated Pearson on a job well done??

 

And on the other side of him not doing it very well for a period of time, how about the recent period where we have picked up 19 out of 24 points and have been the top form team in the league and one of the top 5 form teams in Europe over that time? Does he get congratulated for doing an exceptional job during that period of time as well? Or because he we did poorly before that does he not deserve praise for, quite frankly, an unbelievable and almost impossible run of form? No team of our stature and position in the league really wins 6 out of 8 consecutive matches. Hell, even the top teams don't often keep that level of form.

[chapero82]

I admit I lost faith but the day it was reported he was sacked I did not want him to go as I realised there was nobody better for the job

[Guest MattP]

Out of interest do you still have a pic of NFP in your wallet?

I support the team my thoughts on NFP make no difference to that support.

 

You see the difference here is I actually have never had a picture of Pearson in my wallet whereas you proudly shouted on here you were singing Oh Gary Lineker as an 'alternative viewpoint' to the One Nigel Pearson song, you also strangely claimed this was your way of supporting the team at the Arsenal away match.

 

Given the viewpoint of our dressing room is quite public with their openness in supporting him through thick and thin, do you really think you were helping the team doing this and are you embarrassed about it now? I would be.

 

It's one thing getting it wrong time and time again, but it's another deliberately setting out to hurt the team which your actions would have been doing had more people joined you. That's proven beyond reasonable doubt now.

 

Now you are acting the Cnut.

Most of us have been going for years and all are Leicester fans first and foremost. The whole board is ecstatic we have stayed up.

 

I'm sure most are, however there is no doubt we have a section of supporting who are so miserable they want to see us lose

 

We all know there is that small minority there that enjoy it when we lose, it gives them something to moan about, the miserable one who usually sits near me hasn't said a word over the last few weeks, you can tell he is actually upset we have turned this around, he's even been leaving around 80 minutes rather than staying to shout abuse at the end.

 

Do you really think people like seenitall and anothershitseason are enjoying this? Of course they aren't, they'll be gutted deep down.

 

That's fine but are you seriously saying that there wasn't a reasonable alternative view?

 

Not at all, many were offering a perfectly reasonable well thought out alternative viewpoint. I have no problem with them.

 

When I criticise and call people cnuts I'm talking about the those who were calling other idiots, deluded etc for even daring to suggest we weren't actually down yet and there was still plenty of time to turn it around, even more so those who vanish for weeks on end when we hit a run of form only to vanish yet again into thin air when we are doing well.