Yes...and we can all go to
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
on it.
Sleep well Nigel. Just think-no more Humber Bridge tolls to worry about.
John Gee i find myself agreeing with you,theres a first.
pearson does play solid and dour football. the football we have played this season has been the best one touch football i have seen played by a city team.
fans dont seem to get that playing sideways and backwards is called keeping posession this allows players to recharge their batteries while not giving the opposition the ball thats not my opinion thats the chosen ones view and he knows a bit about football.
Pearson might get us promoted but poor old stringy is in for a hard time
Nigel usually plays his cards close to his chest but this time they're that tight they must be leaving imprints! Even by his standards the interview after the loss to West Ham yesterday was incredibly grumpy.
Whether it is Pearson or not hopefully the owners now realise that first and foremost we need a manager who can get us out of the division, not a face who sells shirts in Thailand.
I'm not convinced Nigel is the best man for the job, but he would be miles better than some of the other candidates. By the way, at the risk of getting lynched, I'm not a fan of the MON return. With a number of managers, such as Billy Davies (say), there would be a grudging acceptance by some supporters of a necessary evil being in place to achieve the stated target - promotion. With MON it would be hailed as the second coming of the Messiah and expectation levels, already high, would be pushed, quite unrealistically, to the stratosphere. Frankly he would be mad to come back.
Waiting for the appointment with interest - as I'm sure we all are!
Well that put the cat amongst the pigeons and I must say the dour tone of the Pearson interview reflects his temperament -and football approach.
I went out to dinner after posting so missed the chance to reply
In terms of the questioning of my sons being a "proper " fan -I am not sure what you mean. They don't have tattoos and rings through their noses and attend the match as part of a big noisy group trying to intimidate opposition fans.
However they decided to buy season tickets out of their budget as opposed to having the money for other things.. and if we all had to make the effort and inventiveness that my eldest has to get to matches from his boarding college usually after a game we might not question his committment.
However they are not brain dead and like many of their generation have the independence and intelligence to apply choice.
In terms of Mandaric and Pearson - relationships were regularly tense and fraught... the fracture started at the time of the Mattock transfer issue and Pearson and his two close cohorts appeared to adopt a siege mentality regarding what they saw as "football" matters.
Johngee I like the idea that your sons make a choice and are independent, but you either support your club, and I say club, not manager, or you don't. Whilst many have good reasons not to be able to watch Leicester due to the economic climate, they no doubt would if finances were better. I find it a bit of a spoilt brat mentality that they have season tickets but throw their dummy out of the pram because they are not getting their own way. If they have season tickets they should support the CLUB they supposedly love. No doubt they'd be there at Wembley if we made the play off finals under Pearson.
Maybe they feel unloved as you sent them away to boarding school?
Teenage boys... !!!!!
i'm happy id dont like my sons musical taste as he is too.
He understands football and his frustrations echos mine in the lack of footbal appreciation.
We moved this season to the posh seats and thought that people that had paid not an incosiderable sum of money to sit there would have more of an insite it to the game.
Sadly thats not the case from not understanding that the whole ball has to cross the line to be out to the difference between ball to hand and hand ball to understanding that the opposition whoever they might be have the right to try and beat us.
I have never told him to support apart from "im never buying a Man Utd shirt EVER!" but he is like me a lost soul who will support leicester for ever in what ever division.
Im lucky and i hope he gets the the pleasure and pain that i get from supporting our club.
Sorry Pearson he lost my support when he took the Fergie attitude to Stringer and could cost the lad his job.
We all make mistakes and Stringy broke a embargo Bringing him back surely there is someone out there that move the team forward who hasnt manager the team before?
Nev, that's the problem. If you can give me the name of a manager you think better qualified (and would come) than Pearson to get us promotion, please say.
I can't see one.
Mersey i'm about as confused as everyone else look at what the caretakers have achived with the Svens and pearsons team it just need someone to motivate the existing players which it seems the owners did not think the existing managment team where capable of!
My head hurts
How is Pearson qualified to get us into the Premiership.He is a defence orientated manager with limited football vision. If the ball is in the other half they can't score!!
You cannot put the clock back and I see it as the owners pulling in their horns in terms of levels of spending and seeking to make the club "saleable" if they chose Pearson.
The clubs who won promotion last year -Swansea, Norwich and QPR all had a football based attacking philosophy completely alien to Pearson
Johngee, you're not Stringer in disguise are you?
Again 100% agree john i hope this is not going to continue?
I disagree Pearson is a defence minded manager - he builds a team from solid foundations and that's very different.
The championship is one of the ugliest leagues there is. Some of te games I've been to have been awful spectacles and you have to battle a grind out results.
The teams that went up last year didn't play expansive attacking football, they built solid defences and had midfield units that created chances. The only exception to this rule in recent years was West Brom, who did go up playing more continental style football.
Anyway, I'm very much in te camp of enjoying winning football, not pretty football.
In my opinion, Manchester Utd have been a more exciting and enjoyable team to watch than Arsenal over the last 10 years. Sideways passes do not entrain me, goals and goalmouth action does.
John, I don't know if you have spoken to your boys at length over this or simply agreed with the choices your boys have made. Personally, I would urge you to speak to them about it. Fine, if they want to forego the opportunity to see a comparatively new team with new players and new skills since NP was last here then that
is a matter for them. I can only think they will lose out. Even if they refuse to attend matches for the remainder of the season, and refrain from switching allegiances then that would be a positive step.
There have been something in the region of 23 managers at City since I first started watching them, and that doesn't include all the janitors/custodians who have to step into the breach at the 11th hour. With one or two I was rather dubious about their appointments but all happened to turn out for the best in the end.
Hopefully, your lads have not been swayed by the artificial gloss and glamour that is abundent in the Premier League and appears to be rammed down our throats week in and week out.
Sorry guys...pushed the wrong button!
***The clubs who won promotion last year -Swansea, Norwich and QPR all had a football based attacking philosophy completely alien to Pearson***
Norwich, yes – scored 83 goals, conceded 58 are the figures of a cavalier side for sure – but QPR (71) and Swansea (69) were only the seventh and eighth highest-scoring teams in the Championship, behind non-promoted Cardiff (76), Reading (77), Leeds (81), Leicester (76) and Watford (77).
If scoring goals was the biggest factor in promotion, neither of those sides would have gone up. They were, however, the two *tightest* teams in the league – QPR conceding 10 fewer goals than anyone else and 26 fewer than their nearest title challenger.
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posted on 6/11/11
Yes...and we can all go to
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
on it.
Sleep well Nigel. Just think-no more Humber Bridge tolls to worry about.
posted on 6/11/11
John Gee i find myself agreeing with you,theres a first.
pearson does play solid and dour football. the football we have played this season has been the best one touch football i have seen played by a city team.
fans dont seem to get that playing sideways and backwards is called keeping posession this allows players to recharge their batteries while not giving the opposition the ball thats not my opinion thats the chosen ones view and he knows a bit about football.
Pearson might get us promoted but poor old stringy is in for a hard time
posted on 6/11/11
Nigel usually plays his cards close to his chest but this time they're that tight they must be leaving imprints! Even by his standards the interview after the loss to West Ham yesterday was incredibly grumpy.
Whether it is Pearson or not hopefully the owners now realise that first and foremost we need a manager who can get us out of the division, not a face who sells shirts in Thailand.
I'm not convinced Nigel is the best man for the job, but he would be miles better than some of the other candidates. By the way, at the risk of getting lynched, I'm not a fan of the MON return. With a number of managers, such as Billy Davies (say), there would be a grudging acceptance by some supporters of a necessary evil being in place to achieve the stated target - promotion. With MON it would be hailed as the second coming of the Messiah and expectation levels, already high, would be pushed, quite unrealistically, to the stratosphere. Frankly he would be mad to come back.
Waiting for the appointment with interest - as I'm sure we all are!
posted on 6/11/11
Well that put the cat amongst the pigeons and I must say the dour tone of the Pearson interview reflects his temperament -and football approach.
I went out to dinner after posting so missed the chance to reply
In terms of the questioning of my sons being a "proper " fan -I am not sure what you mean. They don't have tattoos and rings through their noses and attend the match as part of a big noisy group trying to intimidate opposition fans.
However they decided to buy season tickets out of their budget as opposed to having the money for other things.. and if we all had to make the effort and inventiveness that my eldest has to get to matches from his boarding college usually after a game we might not question his committment.
However they are not brain dead and like many of their generation have the independence and intelligence to apply choice.
In terms of Mandaric and Pearson - relationships were regularly tense and fraught... the fracture started at the time of the Mattock transfer issue and Pearson and his two close cohorts appeared to adopt a siege mentality regarding what they saw as "football" matters.
posted on 6/11/11
Johngee I like the idea that your sons make a choice and are independent, but you either support your club, and I say club, not manager, or you don't. Whilst many have good reasons not to be able to watch Leicester due to the economic climate, they no doubt would if finances were better. I find it a bit of a spoilt brat mentality that they have season tickets but throw their dummy out of the pram because they are not getting their own way. If they have season tickets they should support the CLUB they supposedly love. No doubt they'd be there at Wembley if we made the play off finals under Pearson.
posted on 6/11/11
Maybe they feel unloved as you sent them away to boarding school?
posted on 6/11/11
Teenage boys... !!!!!
i'm happy id dont like my sons musical taste as he is too.
He understands football and his frustrations echos mine in the lack of footbal appreciation.
We moved this season to the posh seats and thought that people that had paid not an incosiderable sum of money to sit there would have more of an insite it to the game.
Sadly thats not the case from not understanding that the whole ball has to cross the line to be out to the difference between ball to hand and hand ball to understanding that the opposition whoever they might be have the right to try and beat us.
I have never told him to support apart from "im never buying a Man Utd shirt EVER!" but he is like me a lost soul who will support leicester for ever in what ever division.
Im lucky and i hope he gets the the pleasure and pain that i get from supporting our club.
posted on 6/11/11
Sorry Pearson he lost my support when he took the Fergie attitude to Stringer and could cost the lad his job.
We all make mistakes and Stringy broke a embargo Bringing him back surely there is someone out there that move the team forward who hasnt manager the team before?
posted on 6/11/11
Nev, that's the problem. If you can give me the name of a manager you think better qualified (and would come) than Pearson to get us promotion, please say.
I can't see one.
posted on 6/11/11
Mersey i'm about as confused as everyone else look at what the caretakers have achived with the Svens and pearsons team it just need someone to motivate the existing players which it seems the owners did not think the existing managment team where capable of!
My head hurts
posted on 6/11/11
How is Pearson qualified to get us into the Premiership.He is a defence orientated manager with limited football vision. If the ball is in the other half they can't score!!
You cannot put the clock back and I see it as the owners pulling in their horns in terms of levels of spending and seeking to make the club "saleable" if they chose Pearson.
The clubs who won promotion last year -Swansea, Norwich and QPR all had a football based attacking philosophy completely alien to Pearson
posted on 6/11/11
Johngee, you're not Stringer in disguise are you?
posted on 6/11/11
Again 100% agree john i hope this is not going to continue?
posted on 6/11/11
I disagree Pearson is a defence minded manager - he builds a team from solid foundations and that's very different.
The championship is one of the ugliest leagues there is. Some of te games I've been to have been awful spectacles and you have to battle a grind out results.
The teams that went up last year didn't play expansive attacking football, they built solid defences and had midfield units that created chances. The only exception to this rule in recent years was West Brom, who did go up playing more continental style football.
Anyway, I'm very much in te camp of enjoying winning football, not pretty football.
In my opinion, Manchester Utd have been a more exciting and enjoyable team to watch than Arsenal over the last 10 years. Sideways passes do not entrain me, goals and goalmouth action does.
posted on 6/11/11
John, I don't know if you have spoken to your boys at length over this or simply agreed with the choices your boys have made. Personally, I would urge you to speak to them about it. Fine, if they want to forego the opportunity to see a comparatively new team with new players and new skills since NP was last here then that
is a matter for them. I can only think they will lose out. Even if they refuse to attend matches for the remainder of the season, and refrain from switching allegiances then that would be a positive step.
There have been something in the region of 23 managers at City since I first started watching them, and that doesn't include all the janitors/custodians who have to step into the breach at the 11th hour. With one or two I was rather dubious about their appointments but all happened to turn out for the best in the end.
Hopefully, your lads have not been swayed by the artificial gloss and glamour that is abundent in the Premier League and appears to be rammed down our throats week in and week out.
posted on 6/11/11
posted on 6/11/11
Sorry guys...pushed the wrong button!
posted on 6/11/11
***The clubs who won promotion last year -Swansea, Norwich and QPR all had a football based attacking philosophy completely alien to Pearson***
Norwich, yes – scored 83 goals, conceded 58 are the figures of a cavalier side for sure – but QPR (71) and Swansea (69) were only the seventh and eighth highest-scoring teams in the Championship, behind non-promoted Cardiff (76), Reading (77), Leeds (81), Leicester (76) and Watford (77).
If scoring goals was the biggest factor in promotion, neither of those sides would have gone up. They were, however, the two *tightest* teams in the league – QPR conceding 10 fewer goals than anyone else and 26 fewer than their nearest title challenger.
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