Stuart Pearce
Stuart Pearce
Stuart Pearce MBEis an English football manager and player. He was most recently the manager of Nottingham Forest before being sacked in February 2015. Pearce was the manager of the England national under-21 team from 2007 to 2013 and also managed the Great Britain Olympic football team at the 2012 Olympics...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 April 1962
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If I refused him this opportunity of fulfilling his ambition it would not be good for him or Manchester City Football Club.
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It was the right decision. There's no point me sitting here and smoke-screening it because I make the decisions at this football club but taking the day off did not contribute to what we did defensively.
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Everything is agreed with Lee Croft financially. I have spoken to him and his agent about football matters. He is quite keen to stay here and hopefully he will be signing within the next day or so.
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In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.
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His return gives England another key to its bow.
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I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.
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Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.
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The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.
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I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.
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We would embarrass ourselves playing like that in Europe.
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We think that he will be out for four to five weeks.
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We've Claudio back in training and we'll judge how he comes along.
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We gave Liverpool too much respect. They haven't been a free-scoring side lately, but once they get their noses in front they are difficult to break down.
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We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough 'here is the FA Cup'. Unfortunately, we didn't quite manage it.