Why does Stuart Pearce hate City so much?

Bobby the blue said:
Aways were much more fun especially in those days. At the end of that season there was a bit of optimism after keegan had faded away so badly. The end of that season the games always seemed to be on a sunny day and I was young and everything seemed good.

Pearce actually did ok for us for a while and it carried on to the 2005/06 season where we started well and had some decent results.
A couple of little cup runs as well that ended in quarter final defeats but it wasn’t all bad. I think the majority of his signings didn’t work out and he spunked relatively big money of samaras and it didn’t work out.

When I was at Gillingham after euro 96 they played forest in a pre season and he was friendly with the staff/players etc and came across as a decent person.

No idea if he hates city or not. Maybe he’s just indifferent towards us and isn’t a fan boy like Neville or carragher. I don’t think he goes out of his way to slag us off and as a caveat I don’t see him being an over the top cheerleader for forest.

I think he just saw football as a job and did it pretty well most of the time.
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Fair comment that.
I just think as an original London punk,, who supported Chelsea ,and who never really wanted to move north as a player ( turned hull city down whilst still a semi pro at Weadlstone) he had no reason to fall in love with City...at least he wasn't false ,and pretended we were close to his s heart,I don't mind that.its real.

When talking of Pearce ,who was a legend in Nottingham but not popular in Manchester ...I always think of David Platt,who was hated in Nottingham but of course helped Mancini s City win the league in 2012...

But I remember Platt, before he got the job at City ,on sky sports as a pundit for City live matches,clearly hating us after the takeover,a surly jealous utd fan ......as you say,these players were just ' professional ' and did a job wherever they were asked to.

Last time I saw Pearce was in the changing rooms at Nottingham Tennis Centre! I'd just arrived for a match and he'd just finished some promotional gig for local sports ....I let on I was a Blue but he clearly wasn't impressed ,lol,although polite with it.
 
CC1 said:
He really can’t hide his disillusionment re his sacking. I genuinely think he thought it was unjust!! That season was a nightmare - IIRC was it 10 goals all season?
If he was any good as a pundit ( he certainly wasn’t as a manager) he would try to be objective. His comments are ridiculous - and his suggestion that Foden should have been withdrawn after 25 minutes was embarrassing to read. Surely whoever is in charge of using him as a commentator should seriously be considering releasing him.
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Think he has been sacked from every job he has had , most boring pundit in the game.
 
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A Company i used to world for had a box at Wembley (they were Chelsea Fans) . They invited me and said I could bring a couple of friends for the Watford Final. Pearce was one of the ex players doing the rounds. When he came into our box and one of the lads said we have three City Fans here, he didn't want to know us and said he cheering for Watford. I declined to have my photo taken with him.
 
I can never get why supporters of clubs think that players who played for the team they support should love or at least like the club when their tenure is done, It’s work, and yes for most on this platform they’d love to do it, but in the end it really is just work, they’re professional sports men and when they leave they’re profession commentators. Certain players will definitely have a connection, but my the most no.
 
mick10 said:
I can never get why supporters of clubs think that players who played for the team they support should love or at least like the club when their tenure is done, It’s work, and yes for most on this platform they’d love to do it, but in the end it really is just work, they’re professional sports men and when they leave they’re profession commentators. Certain players will definitely have a connection, but my the most no.
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It was a touch more than that though wasn't it. We had a year of him playing, he was loved and had a great connection with the fans. He then became a coach at our club. Following this he became manager. I don't demand he loves us, but from a fans perspective treat us the same way he was treated whilst with us. Cannot understand what gripes he can have with City, can't be his sacking because that was quite comfortably the worst City team I watched regularly (born in the late 80s)
 


The twat’s reaction to us winning the treble shows exactly what he thinks of us.

Add to that his opinion of thinking we should keep Alex Ferguson in a job of ambassador for United when they decided to fuck him off. He can get to fuck Pearce.

Absolute wanker of the highest order.
 
thegoatsthegoat said:
It was a touch more than that though wasn't it. We had a year of him playing, he was loved and had a great connection with the fans. He then became a coach at our club. Following this he became manager. I don't demand he loves us, but from a fans perspective treat us the same way he was treated whilst with us. Cannot understand what gripes he can have with City, can't be his sacking because that was quite comfortably the worst City team I watched regularly (born in the late 80s)
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Well I can’t dispute what you put and the disappointment when he missed ‘ that’ penalty, but what went on behind closed doors we cannot know. I don’t get bothered about ex players being that way whether it’s because of some internal dispute, just being loyal to another club or because they’re simply pissed they didn’t get the chance to be this Manchester City. He’s certainly not the only one.
 
Bobby the blue said:
Aways were much more fun especially in those days. At the end of that season there was a bit of optimism after keegan had faded away so badly. The end of that season the games always seemed to be on a sunny day and I was young and everything seemed good.

Pearce actually did ok for us for a while and it carried on to the 2005/06 season where we started well and had some decent results.
A couple of little cup runs as well that ended in quarter final defeats but it wasn’t all bad. I think the majority of his signings didn’t work out and he spunked relatively big money of samaras and it didn’t work out.

When I was at Gillingham after euro 96 they played forest in a pre season and he was friendly with the staff/players etc and came across as a decent person.

No idea if he hates city or not. Maybe he’s just indifferent towards us and isn’t a fan boy like Neville or carragher. I don’t think he goes out of his way to slag us off and as a caveat I don’t see him being an over the top cheerleader for forest.

I think he just saw football as a job and did it pretty well most of the time.
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Well said. I think some City fans are being a bit precious here. On the clip on Talksport he actually spoke well of us when it was his turn - he just looked vacent when waiting for his turn. He got dogs abuse from City fans when he was manager - not surprisingly considering how shit he was - so he's hardly going to be a City fanboy is he? I think some need to get real and calm down a bit. It's like expecting Dickov to be a massive Leicester fan and jump up and down every time they win. Not going to happen. It's just a job to them.
 
Pearce hates City. Anyone who saw that miserable face when Rodri scored in Istanbul would know how much.
In 1990 we sang 'You lost the world cup, Stuart Pearce' after his missed penalty in Italy. He was furious. I remember when he signed he said 'never thought I'd sign for a club like that'
Then remember he brought in his best mate Steve Wigley? I went to school with him, huge Utd fan.
Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the club
 
blue62 said:
Then remember he brought in his best mate Steve Wigley? I went to school with him, huge Utd fan.
Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the club
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Just like Mancini brought in David Platt as his assistant manager ,utd fan who hated City ....and we won the league ,beating utd to the title ...And your point is ?
Fact is he kept us up after a relegation battle ( have you forgotten that ?) and we have remained top league ever since, making the club attractive to overseas investment ...Did u .forget that also ?

As our former manager recovers from a heart attack ,all u can think of is he brought Steve wigley to our club ?
FFS.
 
mick10 said:
I can never get why supporters of clubs think that players who played for the team they support should love or at least like the club when their tenure is done, It’s work, and yes for most on this platform they’d love to do it, but in the end it really is just work, they’re professional sports men and when they leave they’re profession commentators. Certain players will definitely have a connection, but my the most no.
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One of the lads in our pool team used to be a pro footballer. We were in a competition the other week and we played Motherwell. He won his frame and he was genuinely apologetic/ slightly gutted for winning cos he played for them 20 years ago. Made me laugh - wasn’t even in the same sport!!
 
dennishasdoneit said:
Just like Mancini brought in David Platt as his assistant manager ,utd fan who hated City ....and we won the league ,beating utd to the title ...And your point is ?
Fact is he kept us up after a relegation battle ( have you forgotten that ?) and we have remained top league ever since, making the club attractive to overseas investment ...Did u .forget that also ?

As our former manager recovers from a heart attack ,all u can think of is he brought Steve wigley to our club ?
FFS.
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The fact is he was responsible for getting us in that relegation battle. We certainly didn't have a title winning team but it was one probably good enough for mid-table.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The fact is he was responsible for getting us in that relegation battle. We certainly didn't have a title winning team but it was one probably good enough for mid-table.
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Probably.....
I'm genuinely not so sure about that.
Tbf I'd never looked at it that way, ie he was responsible for us getting into the relegation battle

He was a very inexperienced manager,taking over from an experienced manager who iirc walked away from us. Inexperienced manager picking up the pieces in the top league of English football....a pretty tall order ,imo.

If Pearce had played a more expansive game,maybe we'd have been relegated ?

The defensive mindset,was.of course offset by the counter attacking away from home the 5-2win at Charlton should not be forgotten......

Pearce was a defender, took his " footballing intelligence" off Brian Clough....didn't have his charisma, obviously;)
But the sit deep and counter is a style of football City fans had not been used to, this was after Kevin Keegan ?
Chalk and cheese in outlooks on the game.

I do remember silly facts from the. Pearce era like not conceding a goal for 6 games.......I do like defensive football when it's done correctly Kendall,early Mancini...it is an art.
Pearce was just thrown in to a top job after the kk circus had left town.....of course he was gonna batton down the hatches.thats his instinct.
I was always proud when City kept a clean sheet,and as I didn't rate any of our forward players in that era
I was secretly pleased we shut up shop.

As I say defensive football is an art.
I was at Arsenal,away ,under Mancini,..when Roberto decided the game would be nil nil in classic Italian game management.style....it was nil nil. We'd not won at arsenal away for over 30 years...
They were a better team than us at the time,Mancini knew this and produced a masterclass in how to shut a team down.i learnt a lot that evening....Zabbaleta was outstanding.

Next time we went to arsenal we won.......The brilliance of Mancini was coming to fruition

But he knew ,on his first trip to Arsenal he didn't have the team to take them on in their own back yard.

I digress.
 
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