Big Nige in the Guardian

[Fox92]

Legend.

 

Can't describe him any other way, if one person defines what and where the club are now it's Pearson.

[Shane]

I never understood peoples dislike for his behaviour in the media. Football journalists are a bunch of parasites for the most part and Nigel saw right through them. 
 

Unlike our current manager, he was always straight to the point, told the truth, never paid lip service & never threw players under the bus. His rants about ostriches also took attention away from our players and eased the pressure.

[Ginger_Filbert]

Wish he was my best mate. 👑 🐐 

[David Hankey]

13 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Legend.

 

Can't describe him any other way, if one person defines what and where the club are now it's Pearson.

Really?!!

[Fox92]

Just now, David Hankey said:

Really?!!

Yes. He built the club up and got us promoted.

 

Without him we wouldn't be in the Premier League, let alone win it.

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

5 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Yes. He built the club up and got us promoted.

 

Without him we wouldn't be in the Premier League, let alone win it.

It is true that we wouldn't have won the league without his contribution.  (Although that can be said about every single thing from King Power buying the club onwards. But his input was undeniably huge).

And, to be honest, it can equally be said about him leaving. Hard to imagine the global wave of delight and goodwill we surfed being quite the same if Nige had been doing the press conferences instead of twinkly loveable Claudio...

[Fox92]

15 minutes ago, Shane said:

I never understood peoples dislike for his behaviour in the media. Football journalists are a bunch of parasites for the most part and Nigel saw right through them. 
 

Unlike our current manager, he was always straight to the point, told the truth, never paid lip service & never threw players under the bus. His rants about ostriches also took attention away from our players and eased the pressure.

Give over. As much as I love Nigel his behaviour was weird at times. The McArthur incident alone was the strangest and, if you go back to that time, people on here weren't talking about attention away from players but how Pearson was "losing it".

 

If Rodgers came out with half the stuff Pearson did then you'd moan even more. Considering we lost at home to Barnsley and he talked about "delusions of grandeur". If Rodgers came out with that then I think this forum would lose it completely.

[Sharpe's Fox]

16 minutes ago, Shane said:

I never understood peoples dislike for his behaviour in the media. Football journalists are a bunch of parasites for the most part and Nigel saw right through them. 
 

Unlike our current manager, he was always straight to the point, told the truth, never paid lip service & never threw players under the bus. His rants about ostriches also took attention away from our players and eased the pressure.

I find when journalists treat him with respect, like with the interview posted, he is affable and engaging. Much more so than most football managers who when you try and get to know them are boring bastards. When journalists prod and poke him for a soundbite then he doesn't like it but would any of us?

[whoareyaaa]

Do we think Pearson would allow players to run down there contacts and keep playing them?

[Happy Fox]

Rainieri and Pearson have humility , Rodgers doesn’t.

[Koke]

He needed Bristol City. A nice stable job that doesn't have huge expectations.

[Fox92]

21 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

Rainieri and Pearson have humility , Rodgers doesn’t.

This the same Pearson you wanted out and called “out of his depth”?

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, Guest said:

Odd how the people who don't like reading the praise of Pearson always somehow end up in the threads dedicated to him, presumably by accident

Well, as anyone in any number of other threads will tell you, it's a forum for opinions, whether we like them or not. 

[Foxxed]

1 hour ago, Guest said:

Odd how the people who don't like reading the praise of Pearson always somehow end up in the threads dedicated to him, presumably by accident

So far I've only counted one poster. And he's posted twice...

 

...well a number of times.

 

And Pearson has got him worked up. Another reason why Pearson a great manager: he invoked passion. 👍

 

 

Edited 28 February 2023 by Foxxed

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Well, as anyone in any number of other threads will tell you, it's a forum for opinions, whether we like them or not. 

It is but we're not obliged to engage with subjects we know for certain we won't like and will annoy us. Far be it from me to dictate how others spend their free time of course, I just don't see what these people get out of it other than the same pointless arguments every time. I don't like rugby and have absolutely no interest in reading about it so when I see the Six Nations thread I just don't click on it, rather than wading in to roll my eyes at everyone and tell them how sad they are for enjoying it.

[Foxxed]

Pearson was a nurturer.

 

Brendan - an executor.

 

You need both qualities for consistent elite level success. Or two types of managers in our case.

[The_77]

All of these years later and people still can’t see that his treatment of the media was a bit of an act?

 

He’s clearly not that type of person away from the cameras, as evidenced by the time he spent with Ian Stringer after his time at the club. 
 

He used the press conferences and interviews to keep the heat off his players, and to create a constant siege mentality. Sometimes his antics were bizarre but it was truly us against the world back then and his players always fought for him. 

He could have written off Leicester after the way he was let go the first time but both of his spells here were excellent and he truly enhanced the football operations at the club. 
 

Plush, he’ll always be a legend just for giving it right back to that idiot in our stands who was hurling abuse at him in 2014.

 

Edited 28 February 2023 by The_77
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[The_77]

4 hours ago, Spudulike said:

An operation does not fix Rheumatoid Arthritis. 

The operation was on his heart, for the heart conditions referenced. 

[Royston.]

I look back on his time with us fondly but lets live in the now....

 

RODGERS OUT!!

[cityfanlee23]

Great interview, I really feel like he's at a pivotal point of his career there, he has admitted himself he's been surprised by how long it's taken to try to turn things around, it's definitely been a turbulent 100+ games and barely any investment into the players, 12 games unbeaten I think this is a point where if the players bottle it now and they return to poor form, he could be under monumental pressure there. 
But if the players can stick this out, and fans stay behind him, they could genuinely see a resurgence next season towards the right end of the table and possibly fighting for top 6. They are currently only 9 points off top 6 with 13 games to go, so it's well within reach this season if they can hit a good run of form, but given it's taken this long to really get some sort of stability on the pitch, I'm not sure a promotion bid would be something they are ready for. Us getting knocked out of the playoffs vs watford was the best thing that happened to this club in many, many years. 

Really hope they persist with Nige, it's starting to slowly click it looks like, and once it does, he will get that club on a foundation they will benefit from for decades. 

[HighPeakFox]

44 minutes ago, Guest said:

It is but we're not obliged to engage with subjects we know for certain we won't like and will annoy us. Far be it from me to dictate how others spend their free time of course, I just don't see what these people get out of it other than the same pointless arguments every time. I don't like rugby and have absolutely no interest in reading about it so when I see the Six Nations thread I just don't click on it, rather than wading in to roll my eyes at everyone and tell them how sad they are for enjoying it.

Ever been in the BR thread? 

[Stadt]

I felt like Pearson had an altruistic interest in the club’s long term future, even after he’d gone. 

 

He knew he couldn’t do it all himself so the trust he placed in people like Shakespeare, Walsh, Balsom, Rennie, McKenzie et al was key.

 

The best thing Vichai did (imo) was unequivocally buying into Pearson and his methods. 
 

In contemporary football I don’t think another manager has done quite so much with the human capital at a club with the people he brought in.

 

Our injury record alone was phenomenal under Pearson. The recruitment was immense, we never really made any outright poor signings, there were a few bad players but they were worth the punt.

Edited 28 February 2023 by Stadt

[bovril]

Didn't love him when he was here but he's grown on me. Honest, intelligent guy who helped assemble the greatest team in our club's history.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

King Nigel. Please somebody stick a crown on the Nige emoji

 

Glad that some people weirdly hate him, as it feeds his legend. 

 

Nigel 'Mr Leicester' Pearson. 

 

Give him the keys to the city already. 

[Happy Fox]

2 hours ago, Fox92 said:

This the same Pearson you wanted out and called “out of his depth”?

When did I say this ? you have a better memory than me