... blimey Tiddles ... your whiskers might not have been twitching but mine certainly were ... we secured safety with a game to go having drawn at Sunderland as results eleswhere went in our favour ... the players started to dance for joy when those other results came through ... if those results had gone otherwise we would then have had to win our final game to ensure safety .. that's the reality of the situation rather than your history re-written 'comfortable 6 point gap' scenario ... as to imbalance of fixtures .. everybody plays everybody twice ... not sure I've seen anyone other than you mentioning 'lucky and didn't deserve it' ... the final table is for me a reflection of a teams' relative merit over the season ... ... I doubt very much that any team will escape from such a position as we were in any time soon, perhaps never again ... it was the proverbial cliffhanger for me ... the kind of happy ending that is usually confined to movies .. because the escape was 'against all odds' and for me at least it was also by the skin of our teeth ......
Let's get it in perspective regarding progress under Pearson. The progress started from a very low position. I know a lot of other clubs have gone down to the third tier and not made it straight back up. That promotion at the first attempt was crucial and Pearson has to be congratulated for that. The seasons in The Championship were also progressive, despite the hiccup in the one where we went on the bad mid season run but still managed to qualify for the play-offs. And no one can argue about the success of the promotion year. But let's be realistic about last season. We did escape by a whisker never mind where we finally ended up in the table and that we had a game to spare. What the team achieved was extraordinary, defied history and may prove to be a one-off event. Being that far behind at the end of April had everyone worried, even you I would imagine. I admit yet again that I would have ditched Pearson as manager at the end of the year, because there was no sign of him knowing how to pick a side that would win a game, and the stakes were too high to let him continue. Yes, we played some good stuff, but it's results and points that keep you in the league. With his later bizarre activities of grabbing opposing players by the throat and unstable ranting in press conferences I felt the pressure had got to him and he was totally losing it. Saying that, since he survived one stay of execution, I was surprised when he was sacked and assumed that it wasn't a spur of the moment decision and that the board had someone already lined up. That clearly wasn't the case. But like I've said before, you can only appoint one of the candidates who apply, and Ranieri probably looked the best. I'm not overly enthused by the choice, but only time will tell. I think some people are certainly condemning him. They are seeing some parallels with Sven, and I understand that, but they are putting forward their theories as fact and saying he is just here for the money and doesn't care about the club. When they do that, then it becomes a lie as there is no actual truth in it; it is just their opinion. Maybe they will be proven right. But only time will tell. And just for the record I'm not a Pearson hater. I think he has just about reached the limit of his abilities in the Championship and he will probably do very well again down at that level, but I believe he lacks the tactical nous to take us any further. I'm not saying that is 'fact', it is just my belief based on what has gone before.
http://m.leicestermercury.co.uk/car...icester-City/story-26010026-detail/story.html An article from Febuary. Highly relavant now
So everything that backs your theory is a fact and anything against it is peoples opinions? Some people are either ostrichs or have delusions of grandeur. Now whos quotes was they?
Funny thing is if this season does go tits up like i fear will the anti Pearson brigade accept they was wrong?
.. not opinion .. facts .. e.g Petier and aDanns both scored goals that earned us 3 points ... not an opinion.. simply fact ... I accept that you get confused on the difference..
To paraphrase myself, I suppose being against the owners for sacking his son and the other youth players (who filmed themselves racially abusing hookers and bringing disgrace to not only our club, but to our country as well), refusing to issue an apology on behalf of the players and staff of the club to the people of Thailand for the insult thus creating friction between him and the owners and combined with all of his antics last season changed their minds.
Pearson may or may not of apologised. That we dont know There was obviously some difference of opinion that the owners couldnt see past but Pearson didnt see anything major in it
FF are you a woman? You have to argue about everything Your defence of Danns and Peltier on the basis they scored a goal is pitiful. Your looking for an argument with everything i post and its boring everyone. We have difference opinions get over it
He never said anything publicly nor given any written statement about this - there was an apology from the players involved but nothing from NP. Even if he didn't think it was major - and I don't know how he didn't considering it was front page news here and the main headline globally (I remember someone linking to the sports page of a major US site and it was the main story) he didn't back the owners and as he was on thin ice from all of his crap from last season, it was the final straw. What done is one, lets look forward now.
... first I'm an arse and now I'm a woman? ... personal insult and sexism ... are you planning a trip to Thailand perchance?
Not me. Whatever happens, and I think we'll be more consistent his season, it was right of the owners to can Pearson. A good championship manager, ill equipped to cope tactically and emotionally with the Premier League. Definitely not the man to be the public face of the club/King Power or to take us forward.
