Pearson on staying in the stand

[Greatness_Since_1884]

Could get awkward if we're getting hamered and he's in there with the owners though

[David Guiza]

I loved NP's comment on why he stayed in the stand when his touchline ban no longer applied:

 

‘I just decided I would give it another go, no other reason. As I don’t like to conform, I thought I’d do it when I didn’t have to" (Source: Daily Mail)

 

I think some people get him wrong, seeing him as boring, stubborn and possibly not very bright.

 

Contrary he may be, but that can be a good thing; he's also a sharp bloke with a dry sense of humour that creases me up sometimes.

 

You keep them guessing, Nigel!

 

Clearly Big Nige is just a hipster

[Lambert09]

I think it was probably mocking the FA. As lets be honest, its a pretty pointless punishment. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Clearly Big Nige is just a hipster

 

He'll be growing a moustache and wearing a shit shirt eight sizes too big before we know it

[sphericalfox]

It's obvious Nige clearly likes the 'main stand' view on FM. That and the Director's box has half-time hookers and flaming sambuca challenges with Top and his Dad.

[MooseBreath]

Good on him. A bit of trolling never hurt anyone. I don't think the view matters much if you're a manager. If you've been on and around football pitches almost every day for several decades you probably get quite good at being able to see what's going on from ground level.

[Matt]

l love his dry humour, some people don't get it and see him as boring, arrogant, negative, he's not at all imo.

 

On the radio he (jokingly) threatened to sit in the commentary box with Stringer & Young!

 

Oh yes please, maybe he'd give both (Or atleast Young) some of the famous headbutt treatment!

[wight88]

Fat Sam Allardyce used to do it, the pr@ck used to wear a headset.

That conjures up so many unfortunate images 😳

[Ash79]

If I was CS I'd be tempted to have a bit of fun with it... Imagine just as Vardy was walking by... Cupping your ear like American secret service agent...

"What's that boss? Vardy's having a mare?"

"He's got a shocking hair cut and is a lazy b'stard"

"What's that get some boots on myself and drag him off as I'm more mobile"

"We'll it's a little unconventional but ok if your sure"

[CountesthorpeFox]

Can anyone who went tonight and/or Blackpool advise whether he was in the dugout or not?

I didn't see him in on the touchline for the end of game handshakes at Blackpool and for Knockaerts celebration tonight - (thought the eyes gesture by Knocky when he skidded may have been a play on him looking into the stands to see Pearson).

I'm pretty sure his ban has been over and hes just doing it for a change.


Cheers.

[Jordan]

Perhaps he doesn't want to get grass stains on his fresh white kicks?

[Guest MattP]

He'll be called  'Markin' we go to Paris not Paree

 

Did he say that?

 

You also get a much better view of everyone's positioning from the stand. I appreciate rugby is, tactically, a more complex game but their coaches are usually up in the stand or an executive box these days, masterminding things from above.

They'll radio down to assistants on the touchline. Don't have a problem with that at all.

 

Agreed, i find it amazing how many managers still stand on the touchline.

 

Football must be the only sport where this is still commonplace, no excuse for it really in this day and age when you can mic down.

[CountesthorpeFox]

seemed to be up there again yesterday didnt he.

[K1FOX]

He sits where he wants, he sits where he waaaants, Nigel Pearson he sits where he wants.

[whoareyaaa]

Gotta love Pearson, There's Only One Nigel Pearson should get a 15 minute airing non-stop to show the bloke the support he deserves.

[suffolk fox]

He will be buggered when we play watford away they aint got a stand behind their dugouts?

[Stadt]

He will be buggered when we play watford away they aint got a stand behind their dugouts?

The condemned stand is opposite the dugouts isn't it?

[suffolk fox]

The condemned stand is opposite the dugouts isn't it?

No you obviously have never been to watford? Same side the dugouts are there the side that is never shown on tv. Crap ground truly awful. What's with the bit in the corner where the home fans sit looks like a half built block of flats?

[K1FOX]

Absolute fire stadium vicarage road. That play off semi final last year was all the more painful because of how shit their ground is, the fact that half the players weren't theirs and that c**t of a man with the tannoy.

[Stadt]

No you obviously have never been to watford? Same side the dugouts are there the side that is never shown on tv. Crap ground truly awful. What's with the bit in the corner where the home fans sit looks like a half built block of flats?

I have been to Watford, I was incorrect, you were right.

[Sharpe's Fox]

He will be buggered when we play watford away they aint got a stand behind their dugouts?

 

I remember watching Watford Forest on the tele and McClaren was up in the stand taking notes, then he went back to the touchline. Don't know if VR has changed since.

[sylofox]

No you obviously have never been to watford? Same side the dugouts are there the side that is never shown on tv. Crap ground truly awful. What's with the bit in the corner where the home fans sit looks like a half built block of flats?

The stand at the far end is a block of flats.

I have delivered furnature to them.

[Bluetintedspecs]

Does anybody know the real reason he did this? I don't buy this 'I just decided I wanted to' excuse.

Oh those damn conspiracy theories

[Vlad the Fox]

I remember watching Watford Forest on the tele and McClaren was up in the stand taking notes, then he went back to the touchline. Don't know if VR has changed since.

I remember that. Wasn't he stood there with a mug of coffee?

[EastNeukFox]

I remember that. Wasn't he stood there with a mug of coffee?

No, it was an umbrella!!