Nigel Pearson

english association football musician and coach

Nigel Graham Pearson ( have a bun in the oven 21 August 1963 ) is an english football coach and erstwhile professional player, presently the director of Championship club Bristol City. During his playing career, he was a defender and played for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough. As a coach he has taken charge of Hull City, Southampton, Carlisle United, Leicester City, Derby County, OH Leuven, and Watford ; and was assistant coach for England Under-21s and Newcastle United .

Playing career [edit ]

Shrewsbury Town [edit ]

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. [ 2 ] He made his first-team debut in a 1–0 frustration at Oldham Athletic on the open day of the 1982–83 season. [ 3 ] Pearson ‘s first Football League goal came on 12 March 1983 in a 3–1 winnings against Barnsley at Gay Meadow. [ 3 ] Pearson ended the season with 39 out of a possible 42 starts as Shrewsbury finished in ninth stead in the table. [ 4 ]

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The watch season, Shrewsbury finished one place higher but injuries restricted Pearson to 26 games. [ citation needed ] Injury prevented him from playing at all in 1984–85, when Shrewsbury again finished one-eighth in the table, but he returned in 1985–86 making 35 appearances as Shrewsbury dropped to 17th. [ 5 ] In 1986–87 he was an ever-present, making 42 appearances and contributing three goals, as the Shrews finished in 18th place. [ 6 ] He started the future season, before being signed by Sheffield Wednesday ‘s coach Howard Wilkinson on 12 October 1987 for a fee of £250,000. [ 3 ] In his six years with Shrewsbury Town, he made a sum of 181 appearances in all competitions, scoring five goals. [ 3 ]

Sheffield Wednesday [edit ]

Pearson moved to Sheffield Wednesday in 1987. He won the League Cup as Sheffield Wednesday master, during the 1990–91 season, being selected as “ Man of the Match ” in the final at Wembley. In the same season, he besides helped Sheffield Wednesday win promotion to Division One. [ 3 ] During the 1992–93 season, he helped Sheffield Wednesday reach both domestic cup finals, but broke his leg in the League Cup semi-final, and therefore could not play in either final. [ 3 ] In all, Pearson made more than 200 appearances for the Owls, scoring 14 league goals – including the club ‘s first base in the Premier League in a 1–1 draw with Everton at Goodison Park on the opening day of the 1992–93 season. [ 7 ]

Middlesbrough [edit ]

Middlesbrough director Bryan Robson signed Pearson for £750,000 in 1994. Pearson captained them to promotion doubly and to three domestic cup finals. [ 3 ] Pearson retired from playing in 1998. [ 2 ]

Managerial career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

As coach of Carlisle United, Pearson helped to keep the club in the Football League at the end of the 1998–99 season. [ 3 ] He signed goalkeeper Jimmy Glass on lend, who scored an injury-time goal against Plymouth Argyle, saving the club from relegation to the Football Conference at the expense of Scarborough. [ 8 ] The peer was Pearson ‘s final in charge of the Brunton Park outfit. In 1999, he was recruited as Stoke City ‘s first team coach by Gary Megson. [ 3 ] Although Megson was sacked late that year by the club ‘s Icelandic consortium, Pearson was kept on for a promote two years under Guðjón Þórðarson, before being sacked in 2001. [ 9 ] Pearson moved to West Bromwich Albion in November 2004 as adjunct coach to Bryan Robson, [ 10 ] and took over as caretaker coach when Robson left the club in September 2006. [ 11 ] Albion won three and drew one of his matches in charge, before stepping down from the function in readiness for the arrival of raw coach Tony Mowbray. [ 12 ]
Pearson as assistant director of Newcastle United in 2006 On 19 October 2006, he was linked with the Sheffield Wednesday coach ‘s placement but rather took over as assistant director of Newcastle United, replacing Kevin Bond, who was dismissed keep up allegations he was prepared to take bungs for players whilst at Portsmouth. [ 13 ] On 1 February 2007, Pearson was confirmed as assistant coach to Stuart Pearce, the England U21 team director, until after the 2007 UEFA european Under-21 Championship. [ 14 ] As Pearce ‘s sign limited him to involvement in lone one friendly before the Championship, Pearson led the under-21s in their 3–3 tie against Italy on 24 March 2007, the first game at the raw Wembley Stadium. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] When Newcastle coach Glenn Roeder resigned on 6 May 2007, Pearson took cathexis of the remaining game of the season, away to Watford. [ 17 ] Pearson stayed on at Newcastle as a coach following the arrival of Sam Allardyce as coach at the club. [ 18 ] On 9 January, following the passing of Allardyce, he was re-appointed as caretaker coach for Newcastle ‘s trip to Manchester United. [ 19 ] Newcastle lost 6–0, after a Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick, a brace from Carlos Tevez and a Rio Ferdinand goal. [ 20 ] On 16 January 2008, after Kevin Keegan had been announced as the adjacent permanent director of the golf club, Pearson took charge of the team for the 3rd round FA Cup replay against Stoke City, which Newcastle won 4–1. [ 21 ] On 8 February, Pearson left the club. [ 22 ]

Southampton [edit ]

On 18 February 2008, Pearson was appointed as coach of Southampton on a rolling contract. [ 23 ] On 19 February 2008, his career at Southampton got off to a poor people startle, losing 2–0 at home to Plymouth Argyle in front of 17,806, the lowest recorded herd at St Mary ‘s Stadium. [ 24 ] On 22 February 2008, Southampton gained their first orient under his managership, drawing 1–1 away to Scunthorpe United. [ 25 ] On 4 May 2008, with alone one crippled to go, at dwelling to Sheffield United, the Saints were in 22nd place and facing delegating to League One. [ 26 ] After going 1–0 down, Pearson ‘s side pulled-off a comeback to win the game 3–2, their goals scored by Marek Saganowski and two from Stern John, who was besides sent-off. [ 27 ] Southampton secured Championship status for another season, at the expense of Leicester City, who could only manage a 0–0 draw with Premier League -bound Stoke City, and were relegated to the third tier of English football for the first base time in their 124-year history. [ 28 ] On 30 May 2008, Pearson was replaced by Dutch coach Jan Poortvliet after only three months in care. [ 29 ]

Leicester City [edit ]

On 20 June 2008, Pearson was appointed as director of Leicester City. [ 30 ] Craig Shakespeare became the club ‘s first base team passenger car and co-assistant coach alongside Steve Walsh ( a early Chelsea chief lookout, and not the former Leicester City musician of the same appoint ). [ 31 ] a well as having worked together on the West Bromwich Albion coaching staff, the two had besides played together at Sheffield Wednesday. Shakespeare once said that Pearson was the best captain he had ever played under. [ 32 ] Pearson was named League One Manager of the Month for August 2008 after Leicester won three of their first base four games, scoring nine goals and conceding merely once. [ citation needed ] After the disappointing frustration 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 March 2009, before finally being beaten 2–0 by Tranmere Rovers. [ 33 ] He was again named the League One Manager of the Month during that run in December 2008. [ citation needed ] On 18 April 2009, Leicester won 2–0 at Southend United, confirming their forwarding back to the Championship as League One champions. The season finished with the club racking up their highest always points count of 96 points, as they lost barely four of their 46 league games. [ 3 ] Veteran full-back Chris Powell besides joined Pearson ‘s coaching staff as a player/coach in the summer of 2009, [ 34 ] as Leicester continued their surge in form under Pearson the following season in the Championship. Leicester completed a full calendar year of being undefeated at home, before a 2–1 get the better of against Preston North End on 26 September 2009 ended the longest unbeaten base run in the country. [ 35 ] Leicester exhausted about the stallion temper in the play-off positions and an impressive calendar month of February saw Pearson pick up the Championship Manager of the Month award. [ citation needed ] Leicester finished in 5th set in their first season bet on in the Championship, earning a home in the Championship play-offs and a find of back-to-back promotions. [ 36 ] They were defeated by Cardiff City following a punishment shoot-out in the play-off semifinal, despite fighting back from a 2-goal aggregate deficit in the second peg to briefly conduct 3–2. [ 3 ] At the end of the season, Pearson took a hard note on Leicester defender Wayne Brown, who had publicly said in movement of his teammates – including some of heathen minority backgrounds – that he had voted for the reactionary british National Party in the general election on 6 May. He dropped Brown from the side for the play-offs. [ 37 ] During the close season, Brown left the club to sign for Preston North End. [ 38 ] Despite his relative success in his two years at Leicester, he often had a very strain relationship with chair Milan Mandaric and chief executive Lee Hoos. In the summer of 2010, Mandaric showed a consortium of electric potential club buyers round the club without Pearson ‘s cognition and invite Paulo Sousa to the second leg of the play-off semifinal. The golf club then allowed Hull City to speak to him. Pearson said : “ It does n’t take a rocket scientist to work out what ‘s happening ” – suggesting the club did not want to keep him. He then left Leicester to take the job at Hull City and Paulo Sousa was late appointed as his successor. [ 39 ] [ 40 ]

Hull City [edit ]

On 29 June 2010, he was appointed Hull City director. [ 41 ] Despite fiscal difficulties following delegating from the Premier League, Pearson was still able to enter the transfer market, bringing in players such as Nolberto Solano, James Harper, Liam Rosenior, Robert Koren and Jay Simpson. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] The club won their beginning away crippled in over a year at Norwich City in September. Following that victory, Pearson ‘s club broke a 66-year-old read with 14 consecutive away games without frustration. [ 46 ] The season ended with an 11th-place end. [ 3 ] Hull started the 2011–12 season with the club sitting one point outside the play-offs, having a plot in hand in the in-between of November ; [ 47 ] however, on 7 November 2011 Pearson requested license to talk to his former club Leicester. [ 48 ]

return to Leicester City [edit ]

After Mandaric and Hoos had departed the baseball club, Pearson was persuaded to rejoin Leicester City under their new ownership by president Vichai Raksriaksorn, and after days of negotiations he was last re-appointed as director on 15 November 2011 with Leicester sitting 12th in the Championship. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Pearson started well, taking seven points from his foremost three games, which took Leicester into the top six for the first time since he had last been at the golf club, over 18 months previously, [ 51 ] before Leicester faced the Hull City side Pearson had left fair 18 days earlier. Leicester lost the game 2–1 thanks to a late Robert Koren come to, as Pearson was greeted with chants of “ Judas “ from the Hull fans. [ 52 ] That resultant role besides signalled a downturn in shape, beginning a run which saw Leicester fail to win for 5 back-to-back games. [ 53 ] however, after the new year, Pearson rang the changes for the trip to Crystal Palace in an try to get back to winning ways, recalling Aleksander Tunchev to play his first match of the season and bring in reserve team musician Tom Kennedy and 18-year-old youth academy graduate Liam Moore to make his beginning team debut for the golf club. His inexperienced team survival paid off as Leicester earnt a 2–1 victory to end their winless play. [ 54 ] Pearson was sent to the stands in a 2–2 draw against his early club Middlesbrough, after the referee had allegedly “ barged ” into Leicester ‘s dressing board unannounced, to which Pearson reacted angrily. The referee then left it to the one-fourth official to tell him he had been sent off. Pearson then appealed his sending off, saying, “ I was giving my players instructions and there is no casual I will tolerate anyone coming in there who has nothing to do with my team. I ‘m within my rights to tell him to get out – he was telling me to hurry up. I ca n’t wait to see the fall-out and I ca n’t wait to appeal. ” [ 55 ] [ 56 ] Pearson ‘s attract was successful, and he faced no disciplinary action from the Football Association ( FA ). [ 57 ] After an discrepant season, Leicester ended the season ninth in the Championship. [ 58 ] Leicester made a dense begin to the 2012–13 temper, losing three of their foremost five league games and suffering a storm kill in the second round off of the League Cup at the hands of League Two english Burton Albion ; however, a run of five straight victories saw Leicester sitting top of the table after 12 games and besides earnt Pearson a nomination for Championship Manager of the Month in September. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] however, a drop in form in mid-season examine Leicester fall to fifth. The sign of Chris Wood, though, saw a regenerate Leicester go on another run of five consecutive wins, with Leicester reprising 2nd position in the Championship mesa, behind leaders Cardiff City, and Pearson this time won the Championship Manager of the Month prize for January 2013. [ 61 ] Again, a drop in form followed Leicester City ‘s heighten to second topographic point, and they only made the Championship play-offs on finish remainder following their concluding gasp 3–2 win against neighbours Nottingham Forest on the last day of the season. [ 62 ] After winning the first leg against third-placed Watford 1–0, Pearson ‘s Leicester City narrowly lost the second leg of the play-offs 3–1, after Anthony Knockaert missed a last-minute penalty which would have sent them to Wembley. [ 63 ]

Derby County [edit ]

After a year out of football, Pearson was appointed director of Championship team Derby County on a three-year sign on 27 May 2016. [ 78 ] On 27 September 2016, Pearson was suspended by the club pending an home probe [ 79 ] following a course with owner Mel Morris. [ 80 ] It was by and by claimed that the course began with Pearson ‘s expostulation to Morris ‘s use of drones to observe prepare sessions. [ 81 ] Pearson left the club by common accept on 8 October 2016, with Derby 20th in the Championship. [ 82 ]

OH Leuven [edit ]

After losing out on the managerial character at his early golf club Middlesbrough to Garry Monk, [ 83 ] Pearson was appointed as the coach of Belgian First Division B side Oud-Heverlee Leuven on 22 September 2017. [ 84 ] He was sacked on 3 February 2019. [ 85 ]

Watford [edit ]

Pearson was appointed Watford coach on 6 December 2019 on a contract utill the end of the season. He was their third coach of the season after Javi Gracia and Quique Sánchez Flores. [ 86 ] On 29 February 2020, with Pearson as coach, Watford defeated league leaders Liverpool 3–0. This was the foremost time in 44 games that Liverpool had lost in the Premier League. [ 87 ] On 19 July 2020, Pearson was sacked with two games remaining in the 2019–20 season. Watford were seven points adrift at the penetrate of the league when Pearson took commit, and three points above the delegating partition when he was sacked. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] Following Pearson ‘s dismissal, Watford went on to lose their remaining two games and were relegated. [ 90 ]

Bristol City [edit ]

On 22 February 2021, Pearson was appointed director of Bristol City on a contract until the goal of the season. [ 91 ] On 29 April 2021, Pearson signed a three class narrow. [ 92 ]

personal life [edit ]

Pearson and his wife, Nicky, have a daughter, Hannah, and a son, erstwhile professional football player James. Pearson ‘s grandfather Percy Mills besides played football for Notts County. [ 93 ] Pearson ‘s beget passed away on 3 January 2020 at the age of 84, but he took charge of Watford ‘s FA Cup game against Tranmere Rovers the follow day. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] [ 96 ] In March 2020, Pearson fell ill and isolated for ten days under COVID-19 protocols. In June 2020, a blood test confirmed he had previously contracted the disease. While silent at Watford he suffered from secondary symptoms, including an irregular pulse, high rest pulse and swell lips that saw him miss a press league, although he only informed a small number of staff at the club of his condition. In August and September 2020, after his passing from Watford, Pearson endured a bout of arthritic arthritis that saw him suffer with swell joints. He struggled to move during this period, slept heavily and had a shortness of breath. [ 95 ] [ 97 ] [ 98 ] In September 2021, Pearson caught COVID-19 again, and was forced to self-isolate for 10 days. [ 99 ] Outside of football, Pearson is a cutting hiker and outdoorsman, [ 95 ] [ 97 ] in which he once encountered a pack of violent dogs while hiking alone in the Carpathian mountains. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] Had he not been a professional football player, he would have considered a career as a navigator in the Royal Air Force. [ 97 ] [ 102 ]

career statistics [edit ]

Playing statistics [edit ]

beginning : [ 103 ]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club

Season

League

FA Cup

League Cup

Other

Total

Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals

Shrewsbury Town
1982–83
Second Division

39
1
2
0
4
0
3[a]
0
48
1

1983–84

Second Division

26
0
3
0
2
0
0
0
31
0

1984–85

Second Division

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

1985–86

Second Division

35
1
1
0
3
0
2[b]
0
40
1

1986–87

Second Division

42
3
0
0
7
0
1[b]
0
50
3

1987–88

Second Division

11
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
14
0

Total

153
5
6
0
19
0
6
0
184
5

Sheffield Wednesday
1987–88
First Division

19
2
4
0
0
0
2[b]
0
25
2

1988–89

First Division

37
2
2
0
2
0
1[b]
0
42
2

1989–90

First Division

33
1
2
0
1
0
2[b]
0
38
1

1990–91

Second Division

39
6
4
1
9
5
1[b]
0
53
11

1991–92

First Division

31
2
1
0
2
0
1[b]
0
35
2

1992–93
Premier League

16
1
2
0
5
0
3[c]
0
26
1

1993–94

Premier League

5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
0

Total

180
14
15
1
19
5
10
0
224
20

Middlesbrough
1994–95

First Division

33
3
2
0
0
0
0
0
35
2

1995–96

Premier League

36
0
3
0
5
0
0
0
44
0

1996–97

Premier League

18
0
3
0
5
0
0
0
26
0

1997–98

First Division

29
2
1
0
4
0
0
0
34
2

Total

116
5
9
0
14
0
0
0
139
4

Career total

449
24
30
1
52
5
16
0
547
30

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 4 December 2021

Honours [edit ]

actor [edit ]

Sheffield Wednesday
Middlesbrough

director [edit ]

Leicester City
Individual

References [edit ]

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