Nigel Pearson

Nigel Pearson
Nigel Pearson
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Personal information
Full name Nigel Graham Pearson
Date of birth 21 August 1963 (1963-08-21) (age 48)
Place of birth Nottingham, England
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Leicester City (Manager)
Youth career
1980–1981 Heanor Town
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1981–1987 Shrewsbury Town 153 (5)
1987–1994 Sheffield Wednesday 180 (14)
1994–1998 Middlesbrough 115 (5)
Total 448 (24)
Teams managed
1998–1999 Carlisle United
2006 West Bromwich Albion (caretaker)
2007 England U21 (caretaker)
2007 Newcastle United (caretaker)
2008 Newcastle United (caretaker)
2008 Southampton
2008–2010 Leicester City
2010–2011 Hull City
2011– Leicester City
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Nigel Graham Pearson (born 21 August 1963) is an English football manager and former professional player. He is currently in his second spell as manager of Leicester City, having previously managed Hull City, Southampton and Carlisle United, and been assistant manager for England Under-21s and Newcastle United. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.

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Playing career

Shrewsbury Town

Pearson was born in Nottingham where he attended William Sharp Comprehensive school, and began his playing career with non-league Heanor Town before joining Second Division Shrewsbury Town in November 1981.[1] He made his first team debut in a 1–0 defeat at Oldham Athletic on the opening day of the 1982–83 season. Pearson's first Football League goal came on 12 March 1983 in a 3–1 win against Barnsley at Gay Meadow. Pearson ended the season with 39 out of a possible 42 starts as Shrewsbury finished in ninth place in the table.

The following season, Shrewsbury finished one place higher but injuries restricted Pearson to 26 games. Injury prevented him from playing at all in 1984–85, when Shrewsbury again finished eighth in the table, but he returned in 1985–86 making 35 appearances as Shrewsbury dropped to 17th.

In 1986–87 he was an ever-present, making 42 appearances and contributing three goals, as the Shrews finished in 18th place. He started the next season, before being signed by Sheffield Wednesday's manager Howard Wilkinson on 12 October 1987 for a fee of £250,000.

In his six years with Shrewsbury Town, he made a total of 184 appearances in all competitions, scoring five goals.

Sheffield Wednesday

He moved to Sheffield Wednesday in 1987.

He won the League Cup as Sheffield Wednesday captain, during the 1990–91 season, being selected as "Man of the Match" in the final at Wembley. In the same season, he also helped Sheffield Wednesday win promotion to Division One. During the 1992–93 season, he helped Sheffield Wednesday reach both domestic cup finals, but sadly broke his leg in the League Cup semi-final, and therefore could not play in either final. In all Pearson made more than 200 appearances for the Owls, scoring 14 league goals - including the club's first in the Premier League in a 1-1 draw with Everton at Goodison Park on the opening day of the 1992-93 season.[2]

Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough manager Bryan Robson signed Pearson for £750,000 in 1994. Pearson captained them to promotion twice and to three domestic cup finals. Pearson retired from playing in 1998.[1]

Managerial career

As manager of Carlisle United, Pearson helped to keep the club in the Football League at the end of the 1998–99 season. He signed goalkeeper Jimmy Glass on loan, who scored an injury-time goal against Plymouth Argyle, saving the club from relegation to the Football Conference at the expense of Scarborough.[3] The match was Pearson's last in charge of the Brunton Park outfit.

In 1999 he was recruited as Stoke City's first team coach by Gary Megson. Although Megson was sacked later that year by the club's Icelandic consortium, Pearson was kept on for a further two years under Gudjon Thordarson, before being sacked in 2001.[4]

Pearson moved to West Bromwich Albion in November 2004 as assistant manager to Bryan Robson,[5] and took over as caretaker manager when Robson left the club in September 2006.[6] Albion won three and drew one of his matches in charge, before stepping down from the role in preparation for the arrival of new manager Tony Mowbray.[7]

On 19 October 2006, he was linked with the Sheffield Wednesday manager's position but instead took over as assistant manager of Newcastle United, replacing Kevin Bond, who was dismissed following a bung scandal. Pearson's influence was most apparent in Newcastle's defence, which looked a lot more composed after Pearson became assistant manager.

On 1 February 2007, Pearson was confirmed as assistant coach to Stuart Pearce, the England U21 team manager, until after the 2007 European Championships. As Pearce's contract limited him to involvement in only one friendly before the Championship, Pearson led the under-21s in their 3–3 draw against Italy on 24 March 2007, the first game at the new Wembley Stadium.[8][9]

When Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder resigned on 6 May 2007, Nigel Pearson took charge of the remaining game of the season, away to Watford. Pearson stayed on at Newcastle as a coach following the arrival of Sam Allardyce as manager at the club.[10] On 9 January, following the departure of manager Sam Allardyce, he was re-appointed as caretaker manager for Newcastle's trip to Manchester United.[11] Newcastle lost 6–0, thanks to a Cristiano Ronaldo hat trick, a brace from Carlos Tévez and a rare Rio Ferdinand goal. On 16 January 2008, after Kevin Keegan had been announced as the next permanent manager of the club, Pearson took charge of the team for the 3rd round FA Cup replay against Stoke City, which Newcastle won 4–1. On 8 February, though, it was announced that Pearson had left the club.[12]

Southampton

On 18 February 2008, Pearson was appointed as manager of Southampton on a rolling contract.[13] His career at Southampton got off to a poor start, losing 2–0 to Plymouth Argyle on the day he took charge; he thus had no involvement in selecting the team. He saw his first point and goal away at Scunthorpe United.

On 4 May 2008, with only one game to go at home to Sheffield United, the Saints were facing relegation to League 1. After going 1–0 down, Pearson's side pulled-off an impressive comeback to win the game 3–2, and secure Championship status for another season, at the expense of Leicester City, who could only manage a 0–0 draw with Stoke City. On 30 May 2008, Pearson was replaced by Dutch coach Jan Poortvliet after only three months in charge.[14]

Leicester City

On 20 June 2008, Pearson was appointed as manager of Leicester City.[15] Craig Shakespeare became the club's first team coach and co-assistant manager alongside Steve Walsh (a former Chelsea chief scout, and not the Leicester City player of the same name).[16] As well as having worked together on the West Bromwich Albion coaching staff, the two had also played together at Sheffield Wednesday. Shakespeare once said that Pearson was the best captain he had ever played under.[17] Pearson was named League One Manager of the Month for August 2008 after Leicester won three of their first four games, scoring nine goals and conceding only once. After the disappointing defeat of losing 3-2 away to Brighton & Hove Albion despite being 2-0 up at half-time, Leicester bounced back with a club record 23 match unbeaten run in the league between 1 November 2008 and 7 Match 2009, before finally being beaten 2-0 to Tranmere Rovers.[18]. He was again named the League One Manager of the Month during that run in December 2008. On 18 April 2009, Leicester won 2–0 at Southend United, confirming their promotion back to the Championship as League One champions. The season finished with the club racking up their highest ever point tally of 96 points as they lost just 4 of their 46 league games (also a club record for fewest defeats).

Leicester continued their upsurge in form under Pearson the following season in the Championship, Leicester completed a full calender year of being undefeated at home before a 2-1 defeat against Preston North End on 26 September 2009 ended the longest unbeaten home run in the country.[19] Leicester spent almost the entire season in the play-off positions and an impressive month of February saw Pearson pick up the Championship Manager of the Month award. Leicester eventually finished an impressive 5th place in their first season back in the Championship, booking themselves a place in the Championship play-offs and a chance of back-to-back promotions. However, they were defeated by Cardiff City by virtue of a penalty shoot-out in the play-off semi final, despite fighting back from a 2 goal aggregate deficit in the second leg to briefly lead 3-2.

At the end of the season, Pearson took a hard line on controversial Leicester defender Wayne Brown, who had publicly admitted in front of his team mates - including some of ethnic minority backgrounds - that he had voted for the far right British National Party in the general election on 6 May. He dropped Brown from the side for the playoffs.[20] During the close season, Brown left the club to sign for Preston North End.[21]

Despite his relative success in his 2 years at Leicester, he often had a very strained relationship with chairman Milan Mandaric and chief executive Lee Hoos and in the summer of 2010, Leicester's chairman Milan Mandaric showed a consortium of potential club buyers round the club without Pearson's permission and invited Paulo Sousa to the second leg of the play-off semi final. The club then allowed Hull City to speak to him. Pearson claimed "it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out what's happening" claiming the club didn't want to keep him. He then left Leicester to take the job at Hull City and Paulo Sousa was later appointed as his successor.[22][23]

Hull City

On 29 June 2010, he was appointed Hull City manager.[24] Despite severe financial difficulties following relegation from the Premier League, Pearson was still able to make some movement in the transfer market, bringing in players such Nolberto Solano, Liam Rosenior, Robert Koren and Jay Simpson. Despite winning the opening game against the future play-off winners Swansea City, Hull City under Pearson endured a slow start to the campaign. Things began to turn for the better when the club won their first away game in over a year at Norwich City in September. Following that victory, Pearson led the club to breaking a 66-year-old record of consecutive away games without defeat.[25] The season ended with an 11th-place finish.

Hull started the 2011–12 season well, with the club sitting one point outside the play-offs with a game in hand in the middle of November,[26] however during the November international break it was clear his spell at Hull was coming to an end when on 7 November 2011 he requested permission to talk to his former club Leicester.[27]

Leicester City (second spell)

After Mandaric and Hoos had departed the club, Pearson was persuaded to rejoin Leicester City under their new ownership by chairman Vichai Raksriaksorn and after days of negotiations he was finally re-appointed as manager on 15 November 2011.[28]

Managerial statistics

Team Nat From To Record Notes
G W D L Win %
Carlisle United England 17 December 1998 17 May 1999 30 5 13 12 16.66 Saved the club from relegation to the Football Conference on the final day of the season
West Bromwich Albion England 18 September 2006 16 October 2006 4 3 1 0 75.00 As caretaker manager
Newcastle United England 6 May 2007 15 May 2007 1 0 1 0 00.00 As caretaker manager
Newcastle United England 9 January 2008 16 January 2008 2 1 0 1 50.00 As caretaker manager
Southampton England 18 February 2008 30 May 2008 14 3 7 4 21.43 Saved the club from relegation to League One on the final day of the season.
Leicester City England 20 June 2008 29 June 2010 107 55 30 22 51.40 Won the League One title and reached Championship play-off semi-finals. Greatest win ratio of any permanent manager in the club's history.
Hull City England 29 June 2010 15 November 2011 64 23 20 21 35.94
Leicester City England 15 November 2011 Present 1 1 0 0 100.00

Updated 20 November 2011

Honours

As a player

Sheffield Wednesday
Middlesbrough

As a manager

Leicester City

Individual

Leicester City

References

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External links

v · d · e1990–91 Football League Second Division PFA Team of the Year
GK: Luděk Mikloško  · DF: David Kerslake  · DF: Earl Barrett  · DF: Nigel Pearson  · DF: Paul Bodin  · MF: Ian Bishop  · MF: John Sheridan  · MF: Carlton Palmer  · FW: David Hirst  · FW: Steve Bull  · FW: Trevor Morley
v · d · e1997–98 Football League First Division PFA Team of the Year
GK: Alan Miller  · DF: Kieron Dyer  · DF: Nigel Pearson  · DF: Colin Cooper  · DF: Mauricio Taricco  · MF: John Robinson  · MF: Lee Clark  · MF: Robbie Keane  · MF: Georgi Kinkladze  · FW: Pierre van Hooijdonk  · FW: Paul Merson
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