Simple applaud/boo Pearson, everyone has there own views but i think we all agree he did a decent job here and is a good manager but much more importantly get behind Steve Bruce and the City side that's what we should all be doing on Wednesday, the teams going to need us to be 12th man
On the one hand I respect Pearson somewhat for bringing some stability to the club after relegation, but on the other I think he's an utter ****stain whose football was as dour as his personality and whose stubbornness with regards to attacking players/tactics cost us the chance to qualify for the play-offs last season.
WTF? What does the manager's personality matter? It's not X Factor or Big Brother. The only thing that matters is results- not soundbites, being 'open' with lamebrain fans who want to be the manager's friends and all that ****. Back in the 80s we had a manager called Mike Smith. He always came across as articulate, respectful and enthusiastic. He even called fans 'pal' during a phone in and radiated positivity. We pushed the boat out to get him from the Wales job and he was a polished media operator. Unfortunately he got us relegated. We then got in the inarticulate unfriendly Colin Appleton who then got us promoted. This 'nice personality' stuff is embarrassing.
Percy - have you got a link to that first interview when he claimed he didn't want to be here please? Not disputing you or anything but I genuinely don't remember anything of the sort. I also don't quite agree with your opinion that he should be one of the most reviled City managers of all time - I presume you're too young to remember Dolan? (As a supporter since the late 80s I don't know any worse) Also, have you ever tried posting anything positive about anything ever? You only ever appear to post negative stuff about past personell you hate, (or to **** over Bullard). Never any positive posts about the current team though.
If I remember he didn't say he didn't want to be here, he said something about not being wanted by Leicester and he didn't want to stay where he wasn't wanted. Of course that wasn't exactly the most enthusiastic reaction to joining a new club and it made a lot of fans distrustful of him from the start.
Im glad we didnt make it into the premiership with him can you imagine him on Match Of The Day? NO THANK YOU!!
I think if the way he left us prevents me from applauding him. If he'd have stayed the remainder of his contract, or came out and thanked the supporters and actually said goodbye to the players, then I might have felt obliged to applaud. However, the way we took to him for taking over the Club at a desperate time when he could have so easily been out of a job rather soon after taking over should we have got liquidated, and for him to just basically stick the middle finger up at us and **** off to Leicester was just utter betrayal. Also the agony of having to endure the ****e performances at home puts me off a tad too. Screw him, he gets a boo from me.
I just don't get why some supporters set so much store by this stuff. Pearson seemed/seems a man's man, not given to showboating or public displays of emotion. Who knows how or if he said goodbye to the players (or if he was allowed to?)? And ultimately it matters little anyway, he is judged on results and how he turned us around in a very impressive fashion. To bleat on about about the emotional hurt felt when he left makes us look like teenage lasses lamenting the break up of their favourite boyband. He came, he did well, he went. Now we appear to have someone better. Move along please, nothing to see- just our promotion charge.
Players came out and said they'd had no contact from him, he was in training one day, then he wasn't. Rossie was especially gutted. I'm not disputing the results he got us at all, I'm just saying he didn't really care about leaving showing how much he wanted to be here...
Maybe the Allams had something to do with that? Can't imagine they'd allow him back to say goodbye. Whatever, let's move on.....
NP should be respected for what he did for us during very difficult times, even though he was a miserable so and so. However he did build the foundations of the team we have today, so that we need to show him respect. Though applauding him is going too far.
------------- And what team do you manage ? The same as me no doubt NONE. Or maybe you haven't seen some of the **** managers and **** teams as I have over the years .. Anyway ... We did ok under NP and wasn't far off a top 6 finish before he left .. Brought in some decent players as well ... Maybe it's you who knows **** all ?
