Taken from Twitter. I would like to thank all the kind people who have continued to send their support during the last 13 months. I'd like to update you. Learning to walk again has been an incredible challenge. My appreciation of support from family, friends, colleagues, supporters, and medical professionals has been profound. I had the wonderful opportunity of travelling to the US with my dad to meet family for the first time, in Wisconsin. Recently, I've been able to cycle in the Peak District, and swing golf clubs at the driving range, although my follow through needs some work (I've not fallen over yet!) Although my prognosis is still uncertain, believe me that positivity and laughter can prove the best medicine as I experienced with old friends from school on a canal narrow boat on my birthday... there is always light somewhere ahead... new possibilities, new challenges. Take care of each other, and enjoy a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones. Cheers, Nige
Nice, honest guy, I liked him completely, I wish him well and hope he quickly makes a total recovey, you take care Nige have a fabulous Christmas and New Year.
TIME IS A GREAT HEALER and hindsight ...can be a godsend! It does sort of fall into place as to why he left the club whether it was bittersweet depends on your take. My thoughts were that it would have been left to "the wrong person to manage the club "as a stand in" whether for a few month's of as time has passed. Having the break and not having the worries of football management and getting on with healing is the best way forward, he is recovering well, still not done but has time and a stressless opportunity to get it all right!
summed up very well here - Dan JC Top contributor Tommy Sweeten Trying to compare Pearson and Manning is problematic because the both inherited different situations. Pearson inherited a mess from Holden and we were heading towards relegation. Pearson kept us up. We were then in a financial mess and about to breach ffp. Pearson was tasked with cutting the wage bill whilst having very little money to spend and tasked with bringing through youth and rebuilding the club from the top down. Yea the football waw not great at times but that was due to circumstances rather than Pearson. Last season the financial reset was complete and the squad in a good place yet despite selling Scott for 25 million they did not give Pearson funds, even tho we desperately needed a CB. Even tho we were down to just 11 fit players by the time Pearson sacked he got about the same amount of points as Manning got from the same amount of games this season. This is despite Manning inheriting a squad and culture that Pearson built and despite Manning spending 13 million plus. By and large Manning ball has been boring. The games you mention where it was boring under Pearson there were reasons for that like I mentioned above. Manning does not have those reasons. He has a solid squad that he's been able to invest in and still it's boring a lot of the time.
They did give Pearson funds though - this is such a false narrative that you and a few others keep perpetuating. It’s not a case of the more you say it the truer it becomes as the facts are there when you see how much he paid for players such as Atkinson, Knight, McCrorie etc. Back to the point of the post, really good to see him literally back on his feet!
Crikey if he needed to learn to walk again then he must have been really impeded and there’s no way he could continue managing a football team effectively from a wheelchair. I’m glad he appears to be on the mend and wholeheartedly wish him a full recovery. It does offer a bit of justification around us parting company and appointing Manning though.
dont go with summed up well .. a facts from a personal angle posting of which is suit to cut the authors cloth ..... this is the crux and what DH had he inherited and to boot the whole episode of this part of footballing history was tainted by COVID
