Nigel Pearson appointed Bristol City manager

[bovril]

He was crap and comes across as a bit of a twat. Pearson's an odd guy though. 

[Paninistickers]

I say this even as a (at the time) Pearson fan, but I sometimes wonder if he's a well man. 

 

Does he have some kind of personality disorder? Bi Polar?

 

 

[moore_94]

Rolls that story out about Pearson every chance he gets

[The Horse's Mouth]

29 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

I say this even as a (at the time) Pearson fan, but I sometimes wonder if he's a well man. 

 

Does he have some kind of personality disorder? Bi Polar?

 

 

Think he's just a bit of a nutter ain't he. Always likes small squads too so wonder if he just hates people

[Corky]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

He was shit and Pearson knew it. End.

Spot on. Crap footballer, loved to hoof it out of play.

 

Morgan was streets ahead of Mills as a player and leader, thank God we made that upgrade.

[Sly]

Two sides to every story, however even if the tactics and training stuff is true, you can see why Pearson struggled in the Premier League. The story sort of fits in with how Cambiasso, Huth etc apparently tweaked thinks to get us to survive.

 

Pearson was the right person, at the right time to trim that squad. He wasn’t the person to move that squad forward and still isn’t to this day. This is largely why it hasn’t worked for him elsewhere. 
 

The Thailand incident was the ammunition the club needed to remove him from what I was informed at the time. No indication why they recruited him for OHL though. That still seems a bizarre turn of events. 
 

Mills was highly rated as a player when we purchased him, and was an old school centre back. He’s everything we wanted in terms of physicality, it just didn’t happen. Morgan was just on another level though and basically what we thought we would get with Matt Mills, at a fraction of the price. 
 

 

[eblair]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

Two sides to every story, however even if the tactics and training stuff is true, you can see why Pearson struggled in the Premier League. The story sort of fits in with how Cambiasso, Huth etc apparently tweaked thinks to get us to survive.

 

Pearson was the right person, at the right time to trim that squad. He wasn’t the person to move that squad forward and still isn’t to this day. This is largely why it hasn’t worked for him elsewhere. 
 

The Thailand incident was the ammunition the club needed to remove him from what I was informed at the time. No indication why they recruited him for OHL though. That still seems a bizarre turn of events. 
 

Mills was highly rated as a player when we purchased him, and was an old school centre back. He’s everything we wanted in terms of physicality, it just didn’t happen. Morgan was just on another level though and basically what we thought we would get with Matt Mills, at a fraction of the price. 
 

 

he didnt just trim the squad he transformed the club; so many people on record saying he ran the club like SAF at United

 

it was his club and he set up foundations for us to grow, granted maybe tactically not as good as other prem managers. but as a leader he is second to none and largely the reason we now play in europe rather than against scunthorpe 

[Fox92]

2 hours ago, Sly said:

Two sides to every story, however even if the tactics and training stuff is true, you can see why Pearson struggled in the Premier League. The story sort of fits in with how Cambiasso, Huth etc apparently tweaked thinks to get us to survive.

 

Pearson was the right person, at the right time to trim that squad. He wasn’t the person to move that squad forward and still isn’t to this day. This is largely why it hasn’t worked for him elsewhere. 
 

The Thailand incident was the ammunition the club needed to remove him from what I was informed at the time. No indication why they recruited him for OHL though. That still seems a bizarre turn of events. 
 

Mills was highly rated as a player when we purchased him, and was an old school centre back. He’s everything we wanted in terms of physicality, it just didn’t happen. Morgan was just on another level though and basically what we thought we would get with Matt Mills, at a fraction of the price. 
 

 

You mean that made up story

 

Pearson turned us around, we wouldn't even be in the PL without him let alone actually win it.

[Koke]

Mills was crap, no question about that. But Pearson is really a weird guy. Just because you don't rate a player doesn't mean you can bully or mistreat them. Mills isn't the first player to say how odd Pearson was.. 

[Tommy Fresh]

3 hours ago, Koke said:

Mills was crap, no question about that. But Pearson is really a weird guy. Just because you don't rate a player doesn't mean you can bully or mistreat them. Mills isn't the first player to say how odd Pearson was.. 

I've heard another episode where they ended up discussing Matt Mills for whatever reason (not the Ben Marshall episode) and an opposition player didn't speak fondly of Mills.

Edited 15 December 2021 by Tommy Fresh

[Tommy Fresh]

Best part was him being certain Ben Marshall didn't like him because no one else did 

Edited 15 December 2021 by Tommy Fresh

[Soar Fox]

10 hours ago, Koke said:

Mills was crap, no question about that. But Pearson is really a weird guy. Just because you don't rate a player doesn't mean you can bully or mistreat them. Mills isn't the first player to say how odd Pearson was.. 

Who were the other players Jimmy Bullard, Neil Danns, Jermaine Beckford? 
 

Kasper Schmeichel always speaks very highly of Pearson. Jamie Vardy was ready to walk away from us after one season until Pearson intervened. Henry Winter has had very good interviews with him on several occasions. @UpTheLeagueFox always mentions how NP takes time to pop over to say hello & has a chat whenever he sees him at games and me personally can vouch for how genuine & sincere he was when he met my terminally ill uncle back in 2014
 

Look at the players he has reportedly fell out with and what they did with their careers after leaving us. Then look at the players he replaced them with and what they have gone onto achieve. The bloke doesn’t suffer fools and he’s built two very good squads on two separate occasions. 

[CosbehFox]

Always remember how people were accusing Pearson of a fall out with Gallagher. Was then revealed that he’d given him compassionate leave. Similar with Knocky and his move to Belgium when his Dad got poorly 

[Leicesterpool]

Mills only joined for the money as did many that sven signed. Pearson quickly identified this soon as rejoined. Mills I dont think wanted to leave Reading but was forced due to the big amount of money we offered reading for him.

Edited 16 December 2021 by Leicesterpool

[Leicester_Loyal]

I'm convinced that if we stuck Pearson in a ring with COVID we'd have it defeated by the 3rd round, the man is a legend.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Nowt wrong with Pearson, plenty wrong with Matt Mills who is an absolute melt. Next.

[Guest Col city fan]

On 14/12/2021 at 20:29, Spudulike said:

Also confirmed what we suspected about Sven running a holiday camp. He was such a fraud. 

That didn’t need confirming. It was well known

[Guest Col city fan]

On 15/12/2021 at 20:20, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Who were the other players Jimmy Bullard, Neil Danns, Jermaine Beckford? 
 

Kasper Schmeichel always speaks very highly of Pearson. Jamie Vardy was ready to walk away from us after one season until Pearson intervened. Henry Winter has had very good interviews with him on several occasions. @UpTheLeagueFox always mentions how NP takes time to pop over to say hello & has a chat whenever he sees him at games and me personally can vouch for how genuine & sincere he was when he met my terminally ill uncle back in 2014
 

Look at the players he has reportedly fell out with and what they did with their careers after leaving us. Then look at the players he replaced them with and what they have gone onto achieve. The bloke doesn’t suffer fools and he’s built two very good squads on two separate occasions. 

I’ve got plenty of stories of how odd Pearson could be. But there’s no point sharing them on this forum.

He led the club to success is all I’m bothered about really 

[HighPeakFox]

For the record, being odd isn't a crime  

 

It would be very dull if we were all the same.

[Tommy Fresh]

17 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I’ve got plenty of stories of how odd Pearson could be. But there’s no point sharing them on this forum.

He led the club to success is all I’m bothered about really 

Think the issue is people have accused him of being a bully in other threads due to this Mills story and mixing that in with some of his odd media appearances. In reality though the only alleged bullying is this Mills account of what happenend and that's questionable

Edited 17 December 2021 by Tommy Fresh

[DoveValleyFox]

On 17/12/2021 at 07:04, Tommy Fresh said:

Think the issue is people have accused him of being a bully in other threads due to this Mills story and mixing that in with some of his odd media appearances. In reality though the only alleged bullying is this Mills account of what happenend and that's questionable

If you choose a no nonsense managerial approach there is a chance that someone may accuse you of being a bully.

Pearson let himself and the club down when he allowed the pressure of being in the spotlight get to him when we were struggling. Many in the media will enjoy the attack when they smell blood and this was the case when he pretty much set himself up as a target. It's a shame because I believe that like most no nonsense managers Pearson just normal family man with a sense of humour. 

[OntarioFox]

kingy's back tonight

[Unabomber]

49 minutes ago, OntarioFox said:

kingy's back tonight

King and James starting in CM. 

[Unabomber]

Nigel has got these playing like peak Leicester tonight. Should be 4-0 up after 15 mins. 

[Unabomber]

And now King is sent off ffs