Next Manager The Runners & Riders

[PsychoStanleyStone]

For all of you leaning towards Pearson, be careful what you wish for!.............

i'd say more positives than negatives in that article, after all he was the 4th Watford manager in a shortish space of time?  7 points adrift on arrival and were 3 points clear when he got the push, never ideal taking over in December.

He stuck by a 4 2 3 1 system, from memory they seemed a side that created plenty of chances, but being at the bottom, under huge pressure, this is probably when you stick with a system.

Many managers run into bad form and crash and burn, Pearson has hit bad ruts in form but on quite a few occassions found the answers in the face of adversity, Leicester virtually the only club bottom at Xmas to survive and finished 13th for example.

The only real accusation was that he stuck to his system as if that was wrong, this is a team totally out of form generally, the other accusation that Watford tended to concede first in games, i still can't help but think they would of still been in the PL if he had stayed for the last couple of games, but who knows, who cares.