Stuart Pearce

[pride in battle]

We had a reasonable set of players. We were a comfortably just in the bottom half team, maybe even mid-table with a manager who knew what he was doing.

Pearce nearly got them relegated.

We had nobody who could put the ball in the ******* net though...
I don't like Pearce and the football was shit but he kept us up.

 

[paulchapo]

It got so bad under Pearce. I started wearing a black suit for home games

You want to hear John Mackens views on Pearce in the Under the Cosh podcast lol.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

I was 13 when Clarke took over and remember it being dire.

Any behind the scenes stories about that time you might be able to share?

Any members of the mysterious 5th column on here? Clark referred to these sinister unnamed characters when he left. They might have some info.

 

[SWPISHOME]

You want to hear John Mackens views on Pearce in the Under the Cosh podcast lol.

Have you got a video of it by any chance? I'd love to listen to it.

I think it was a few years ago Danny Mills (The ****) had said Jon Macken was going to kill Stuart Pearce for what he had done putting David James up front.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Great player though :)

He did have a very successful playing career but think his coaching career may have been hampered by coming across as a yes man with Graham Taylor.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Frizzell
Sainty
Benson
Coppell
Ball
Pearce
McNeill
Saunders
Allison (second coming)
Neal
Hart
Wild (apparently, before my time!)
Poyser (ditto)

Bit harsh on Phil Neal mate, at least he had the balls to accept the poisoned chalice that we were back then when nobody else would touch us. Could very easily have run away when Coppell did but he stayed and tried. He gets a little bit of my respect for that.

 

[paulchapo]

Have you got a video of it by any chance? I'd love to listen to it.

I think it was a few years ago Danny Mills (The ****) had said Jon Macken was going to kill Stuart Pearce for what he had done putting David James up front.

It's around somewhere. Here's a section.

 

[SWPISHOME]

It's around somewhere. Here's a section.

Cheers fella.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

Not only was/is Pearce a football knowledge vacuum, he’s as thick as a whale sharks widge..! He can barely string a coherent sentence together …!

Utterly incompetent as a manager/coach at City and England u 21s.

An incoherent,repetitive bird brain as a pundit and a bitter, sneering, small minded **** towards City cos we outed him.

How he gets gigs I'll never know !!

 

[nmc]

Utterly incompetent as a manager/coach at City and England u 21s.

An incoherent,repetitive bird brain as a pundit and a bitter, sneering, small minded **** towards City cos we outed him.

How he gets gigs I'll never know !!

That sums him up.

 

[Dubciteh]

The biggest common trait between Hughes and Pearce was their ability to remove all joy and hope from the fans of the teams they manage.

Hughes was a bang average manager, who slowly regressed as football left him behind.

Pearce was a totally shit manager, with only half a brain cell, who’s only real success was with the U21s.

Alan Ball supersedes both though, for me, as the worst manager during my lifetime.

What success did he have with the u21s? I agree with the above, i just dont recall Pearce having success with the 21s at all. Quite the opposite in fact but memory could be playing tricks on me due to how much i hate him

 

[pride in battle]

Bit harsh on Phil Neal mate, at least he had the balls to accept the poisoned chalice that we were back then when nobody else would touch us. Could very easily have run away when Coppell did but he stayed and tried. He gets a little bit of my respect for that.

Yeah me too

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

What success did he have with the u21s? I agree with the above, i just dont recall Pearce having success with the 21s at all. Quite the opposite in fact but memory could be playing tricks on me due to how much i hate him

Think he got them to the final of the Euro u21 for the first time in forever. It’s a long time ago, so wouldn't put the house on it!

 

[Vienna_70]

Think he got them to the final of the Euro u21 for the first time in forever. It’s a long time ago, so wouldn't put the house on it!

He didn’t do very well with the Olympic team, if memory serves; quarterfinal, was it?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He didn’t do very well with the Olympic team, if memory serves; quarterfinal, was it?

Some would say that was our best result in years! ;-)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

What success did he have with the u21s? I agree with the above, i just dont recall Pearce having success with the 21s at all. Quite the opposite in fact but memory could be playing tricks on me due to how much i hate him

From wiki
After being sacked by City in May 2007, he was given the England U21 job permanently a month later. Under Pearce, the team finished as runners-up in the 2009 UEFA Under-21 Championship, but failed to make it out of the group stage in the 2013 UEFA Under-21 Championship

 

[Dubciteh]

From wiki
After being sacked by City in May 2007, he was given the England U21 job permanently a month later. Under Pearce, the team finished as runners-up in the 2009 UEFA Under-21 Championship, but failed to make it out of the group stage in the 2013 UEFA Under-21 Championship

Got out of the group, straight to semis and beat the mighty sweden on penalties and then got battered in the final. All with a squad packed full of Prem players. If that is deemed success for Pearce it shows how low the bar is, followed up by not even getting out of the group with a squad full of prem players like Jordan Henderson. Shite job with the Olympic squad too. He has never done a good job anywhere and hasnt a breeze.

A few years ago he did a combined city and united team just before a derby, it was like a game of opposites, none of our big players in and team dominated by rags. We were at our peak and they were shite at the time. bitter fk!

 

[tommybooth]

Up there with Alan Ball.