A week with Nigel Pearson in Belgium [442 magazine]

[Fox92]

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/a-week-nigel-pearson-belgium-seeing-leicester-win-premier-league-wasnt-particularly

 

 

Edited 28 March 2018 by davieG
BodyText of the article removed at the request of FFT

[Fox92]

Great interview from the great man yet again.

 

If you're one of these weirdos that doesn't like him then don't ruin yet another thread.

[Papasmurf]

Think you want the general football section. 

[Guest Kopfkino]

I'm sure he'd be a top bloke to sit down with and just have a chat

[Wymsey]

7 minutes ago, Kopfkino said:

I'm sure he'd be a top bloke to sit down with and just have a chat

He'd make a good therapist..

[The Horse's Mouth]

think he'll always be my favourite manager, absolutely love him. Hopefully one day we meet OHL in Europa 

[Stadt]

2 hours ago, Fox92 said:

It’s all rather different from the cut-and-thrust of a Premier League press conference, and Pearson doesn’t look entirely unhappy about that.

Love Nige

[Guest Col city fan]

Great interview. He sounds happy. Contented. 

[ealingfox]

Love the way he acts like he doesn't want to tell the Romania story and then tells the story twice, word for word 

[TheUltimateWinner]

12 hours ago, Kopfkino said:

I'm sure he'd be a top bloke to sit down with and just have a chat

When Pearson talks, you listen. 

[NorthfieldsFox]

Still edgy , can’t imagine he would be fun to have a pint with , way to intense 

 

hope he gets them promoted because he deserves some luck 

[RoboFox]

16 minutes ago, NorthfieldsFox said:

Still edgy , can’t imagine he would be fun to have a pint with , way to intense 

 

hope he gets them promoted because he deserves some luck 

By many accounts (including some posted on here in the past) it's quite the opposite. Away from the cameras and microphones, he's very open and conversational. One of the "lads" if you like.

[Guest Col city fan]

15 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

By many accounts (including some posted on here in the past) it's quite the opposite. Away from the cameras and microphones, he's very open and conversational. One of the "lads" if you like.

I’ve heard the same thing. Doesn’t suffer fools though.

[Soar Fox]

39 minutes ago, NorthfieldsFox said:

Still edgy , can’t imagine he would be fun to have a pint with , way to intense 

 

hope he gets them promoted because he deserves some luck 

Totally the opposite apparently. Enjoys a drink and real good laugh away from the cameras.

[NorthfieldsFox]

2 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Totally the opposite apparently. Enjoys a drink and real good laugh away from the cameras.

Heard all that about Roy Keane years ago and when a small group of us spent time with him he was just awful, worse than on camera  

 

as I haven’t met NP privately I can’t comment so I’ll bow to you guys that have 

 

still so grateful for what he did for the club  

[shen]

Kudos also to FourFourTwo for investing time and money into this. Pearson is hardly glamour material and I doubt any but the most ardent FM players or even Belgian football fans know about OHL, but he's an interesting character with an eventful career to date.

 

I still find it strange that Pearson has fallen into obscurity after his achievements with us, but he sounds happy about his current situation. Would be fun to see them getting promoted.

[Soar Fox]

40 minutes ago, NorthfieldsFox said:

Heard all that about Roy Keane years ago and when a small group of us spent time with him he was just awful, worse than on camera  

 

as I haven’t met NP privately I can’t comment so I’ll bow to you guys that have 

 

still so grateful for what he did for the club  

Bet he had some stories. 

 

My Aston Villa supporting friend met Martin O’neil at a Q&A and hated the bloke afterwards. Said he was rude, arrogant and didn’t want to interact with the fans at all.

[NorthfieldsFox]

53 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Bet he had some stories. 

 

My Aston Villa supporting friend met Martin O’neil at a Q&A and hated the bloke afterwards. Said he was rude, arrogant and didn’t want to interact with the fans at all.

Keane was the same , horrible man 

[ScouseFox]

1 hour ago, shen said:

Kudos also to FourFourTwo for investing time and money into this. Pearson is hardly glamour material and I doubt any but the most ardent FM players or even Belgian football fans know about OHL, but he's an interesting character with an eventful career to date.

 

I still find it strange that Pearson has fallen into obscurity after his achievements with us, but he sounds happy about his current situation. Would be fun to see them getting promoted.

don’t think he’s fallen into obscurity really, pretty common knowledge and it even says in that article that a lot of clubs who went managerless in the year he was “out the game” wanted him to step in but he just wasn’t arsed. 

 

he is a great bloke. 

[Dan]

He's a bit different really. I can actually totally believe he fancied something a bit unorthodox even if Leuven specifically wasn't his target.

 

I expect him to get Leuven into the top tier and keep them there.

[shen]

49 minutes ago, ScouseFox said:

don’t think he’s fallen into obscurity really, pretty common knowledge and it even says in that article that a lot of clubs who went managerless in the year he was “out the game” wanted him to step in but he just wasn’t arsed. 

 

he is a great bloke. 

To be fair, the Belgian second division is pretty obscure for a man with his track record. As for the other bit, to quote Pearson: " I’d had discussions about several jobs that either didn’t happen for me or weren’t things I was that interested in."

So he was in the running for jobs he didn't get and he got offers from clubs that were not interesting.

To me that tells me that there weren't any high-profile clubs that had him as their first choice.

That and the pull of living abroad, which I can totally understand.

Hope he gets success there in the long run

[VLC86]

He's a bloody hero isn't he.

[LanguedocFox]

I love Pearson, and to my biased mind he will always be the best City manager ever. I hope he gets OHL promoted and then into the Champion's League. I doubt they would win it, but he deserves the opportunity to try.

[Soar Fox]

11 minutes ago, Worthington said:

First hand, can tell you MON is NOT a charming, witty man !!

Do tell more.