Nigel Pearson on Brexit, leaving ostrich-gate behind and his new life managing in Belgium

[bluesbrothers]

I really do hope we get to meet him on Sunday. I miss 'Are Nige. 

Oh btw I'm going Belgium, lads, see you there.

[sm1]

4 hours ago, baker11 said:

Likewise, I know the lady who does his hair in Sheffield. She mentioned he was struggling for a while after Derby.

He actually goes to a hairdresser? I thought he just got a pair of clippers and did it himself ?

[worthosoriginals]

4 hours ago, Fox Ulike said:

What do Leavers look like then?

 

[RumbleFox]

7 hours ago, murphy said:

You're having a rant about something that hasn't happened, complete with imagined quotes with thicko accent. 

 

This kind of thinking will lead to you being one of those people that mutters to themselves as they're walking down the street.

When you want to respond to someone on a thread but realise they are right.  I have written, deleted and rewritten this response 17 times but cannae really argue with your assessment.  X

[HighPeakFox]

So glad our football forum is being used for mature political discussion, which is in no way divisive.

[Wymsey]

12 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

So glad our football forum is being used for mature political discussion, which is in no way divisive.

Will Brexit do Britain the world of good?..

[Tuna]

Good read, but I still feel Nigel belongs managing at a better level.

[TheLittleBigMan]

Wonder if he fought the dog?

[HighPeakFox]

6 hours ago, Wymeswold fox said:

Will Brexit do Britain the world of good?..

I'm honest enough to admit I don't have the answer to that. But here isn't the place for this topic, we have enough football related matters to disagree on. 

[Webbo]

There's a politics thread in gen chat. Can we keep brexit discussion in there please?

[bovril]

19 hours ago, MattP said:

I still love him.

 

He seems to be fiercely patriotic Englishman but also feels strongly European reading that, an unusual position I'd say.

It's really not unusual at all. 

[Sionnach gorm]

Now we ask Pearson for his political thoughts? 

[TheUltimateWinner]

Funny how Nigel sometimes got dubbed boring, but every interview I've read of his has always been so very interesting.

[Matt]

16 minutes ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

Funny how Nigel sometimes got dubbed boring, but every interview I've read of his has always been so very interesting.

I've said it before when he speaks, you listen.

 

I do anyway.

[Kitchandro]

2 hours ago, Webbo said:

There's a politics thread in gen chat. Can we keep brexit discussion in there please?

There was a political comment in the article. What do you expect?

 

5 minutes ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

Funny how Nigel sometimes got dubbed boring, but every interview I've read of his has always been so very interesting.

No idea why people always said he was boring. Ok, early in his management career I think he made a conscious effort not to be controversial or overly emotional in interviews. But by the time his second spell here came along most interviews tended to be awkward or filled with some sort of rant. 

 

In the last couple of seasons every one was comedy gold. You were always waiting for him to explode because his body language and tone of his voice clearly showed how he resented so many interviewer's questions.

 

He's always come across as a real person to me, a flawed but honest character with actual emotions. Meanwhile managers like Mourinho and Fergie always put on an act, everything they say is an attempt to keep themselves in the limelight and provoke a reaction. They are complete fakes and not interesting in the slightest. But people create an image of them being controversial because it sells. Mourinho, in particular, is just a psychopathic egomaniac who feeds off everyone thinking he's some sort of badass and people saying he's 'entertaining' because he has a funny accent.

 

 

 

 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

Pearson comes across very well in the interview. If you ask questions the right way he generally responds well. 

[Sampson]

18 hours ago, Spudulike said:

Labour MP's mostly voted in favour of triggering Article 50 here's the list

 

Old Labour (before Blair/Brown) wanted us out of the EU (have a read of the manifesto from 1983 when they pledged to remove the UK from the EEC within 5 years).

 

Labour's claim is that they would make a better job of removing the UK from the EU (well they would say that, wouldn't they).

 

More than 83% of the electorate voted for Brexit supporting parties.

Yeah. Old Labour (which Corbyn and MacDonnell model themselves after) always wanted out of the EU. Because it was some conglomerate of establishing an unbreakable capitalist system and making sure capitalism prospers in the non-Economic power countries of Europe while defeating socialism in those countries or something. That was always Tony Benn's line anyway.

 

Corbyn campaigned against the EU for years too and it's always been pretty clear Corbyn still belongs to that idea at heart which is why he put up such a half-hearted campaign for remain even though his party made him for the remain line.

 

Don't know why it would be surprising that Labour voters would vote leave. Pretty sure Corbyn and MacDonnell both wanted a leave vote really but were made to toe the line by their party.

[The Doctor]

1 hour ago, TheUltimateWinner said:

Funny how Nigel sometimes got dubbed boring, but every interview I've read of his has always been so very interesting.

He gets dubbed dour because he's very blunt and doesn't really engage with the banal "Good result for you Nige?" interviews that make up 99% of sports journalism in this country. Engage in more serious questions and approach in the right way (I.e. not just looking for a soundbite) and he's probably one of the most interesting managers to hear from.

[Buzzell]

Love the man

[BenTheFox]

On 10/11/2017 at 14:48, MattP said:

I still love him.

 

He seems to be fiercely patriotic Englishman but also feels strongly European reading that, an unusual position I'd say.

I've never understood the suggestion that remain voters can't be patriotic. It's just an absolute nonsense. 

[Foxxed]

Perhaps you can be patriotic within your region, your country and your continent. 

 

Proud of Leicestershire, proud of England, proud of Britain, proud of the UK and proud of Europe. They all intermingle.

 

The idea you can be proud of some but not of others is nonsense, often very useful nonsense to some, but nonsense nonetheless, and something Nige also  doesn't subscribe to.

[Daggers]

I really didn’t think he could rise any further in my estimations, what an absolutely fantastic bloke.

 

God I miss him.

[dylanlegend]

WHAT. A. MAN.

 

 

[Guest MattP]

10 hours ago, BenTheFox said:

I've never understood the suggestion that remain voters can't be patriotic. It's just an absolute nonsense. 

I didn't say they couldn't, they can.

 

I just said it was unusual, from my experience to find someone as a fiercely patriotic Englishman who also thinks it's tragic we voted to leave the EU.

[z-layrex]

Still don't understand how not wanting to be in a political union makes you any less of a European but there you go.