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BREAKING: Leicester City has today relieved its First Team Manager, Nigel Pearson, of his duties. More follows…

[article=http://www.lcfc.com/news/article/leicester-city-parts-company-with-nigel-pearson-2515428.aspx#ZvoKKUoy8hYVDA7K.99]Leicester City Football Club has today (Tuesday) relieved its First Team Manager, Nigel Pearson, of his duties.

The Board of Directors recognises the success Nigel has helped to bring to Leicester City during his two spells in charge of the Club, particularly during the last three and a half years. However, it has become clear to the Club that fundamental differences in perspective exist between us. Regrettably, the Club believes that the working relationship between Nigel and the Board is no longer viable.

Leicester City’s owners, Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, and the Board of Directors would like to place on record their thanks to Nigel for the considerable contribution he has made during his time with the Club and wish him well in the future.

Khun Vichai and Khun Top remain wholly committed to the Club’s long-term development and to on going investment in a squad that will continue to be competitive in the Premier League. We trust that the Club’s supporters will recognise that the owners have always acted with the best interests of the Club at heart and with the Club’s long-term future as their greatest priority.

Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh will take charge of first team duties while the Club begins its recruitment of a new manager. There will be no further comment until this process has concluded.[/article]

Regardless of his personality, it was a great job achieving survival with the late run of form they had. Big Sam for Leicester City?

Leicester's last 10 games under Nigel Pearson:
LWWWWLWWDW
Goals: 22
Conceded: 11
Points won: 22/30

Points won last 10 EPL games 2014/15:
Leicester: 22 points
Arsenal: 21 points
Man City: 21 points
Man Utd: 17 points
Liverpool: 11 points
 
Couldn't have happened to a nicer person, but it still surprises me TBH. Pearson's an oaf, but he did a bang-up job keeping them in the Prem.

In the circs.Fat Sam is probably as good an appointment as they could make.
 
Poor old Worthington. He's a bit like that Wile E Coyote character - eludes a bomb, a speeding car and a huge hole in the ground, and then, just as he wipes the sweat from his brow and is half through saying 'phew,' a piano lands on his head.
 
He's taking the fall for the Thailand fiasco?

or they want to play a different brand of football and need a better manager?

They'll get relegated.
 
Im guessing there was tension after his son was, rightly, sacked from the club. There was no real grounds for sacking him from a footballing perspective unless they have managed to agree terms with a manager of a higher calibre. Risky move, but it worked for Saints.
 
Squiggles said:
Im guessing there was tension after his son was, rightly, sacked from the club. There was no real grounds for sacking him from a footballing perspective unless they have managed to agree terms with a manager of a higher calibre. Risky move, but it worked for Saints.
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being a nob himself throughout the season must have helped too
 
Squiggles said:
Im guessing there was tension after his son was, rightly, sacked from the club. There was no real grounds for sacking him from a footballing perspective unless they have managed to agree terms with a manager of a higher calibre. Risky move, but it worked for Saints.
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BBC Sport's Pat Murphy
[article]"It's been obvious for some time that Pearson's relationship with the board had been tricky - for example was he sacked or not in February? But his performance in April and May, purely in football terms, was tremendous.

"But the personal baggage that he had accumulated during a challenging first season in the Premier League has to be assessed when the straw - named James Pearson - broke the camel's back.

"Religion is very important to the Srivaddhanaprabha family and observers have often see Buddhist monks in and around the players area after a home match - as guests of the owners.

"So clearly integrity and humility are important issues and that something like this happened on the 'goodwill tour' of their homeland would be very hard for them to accept.

"But fundamentally, should the sins of the son be visited on the father? In footballing terms this is very harsh on Pearson."[/article]
 
The ending of that article seems a bit confused to me. If Pearson hadn't already had a "tricky" working relationship with the board I doubt his son's misdemeanours would have got him the boot, especially as he'd kept them in the Prem.

Another suggestion I heard on the radio earlier was that Pearson hadn't been involved in the decision to bin his son (quite rightly not, given their close relationship) and there was a bust-up about that, which was the real "straw that broke the camel's back". Moyes' name was mentioned as a possible successor, as was Neil Lennon's.
 
Judge Jules said:
The ending of that article seems a bit confused to me. If Pearson hadn't already had a "tricky" working relationship with the board I doubt his son's misdemeanours would have got him the boot, especially as he'd kept them in the Prem.

Another suggestion I heard on the radio earlier was that Pearson hadn't been involved in the decision to bin his son (quite rightly not, given their close relationship) and there was a bust-up about that, which was the real "straw that broke the camel's back". Moyes' name was mentioned as a possible successor, as was Neil Lennon's.
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Yeah, that article was almost James Pearce-like in its botched nature. Lennon would be ideal for the job, I would have thought.
 
It's unfortunate for Nigel Pearson but there are two types of managers in this game.

1, Brendan Rodgers
2, Everybody else.
 
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