Stuart Pearce Red Card vs Leicester '88 League Cup

Shouldn't condone it really but what a pair of tackles....I don't know what Reid had done to upset him!

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[LUGS1877]

Are you lads for real???

Hard as nails? Psycho?

Do you not remember the time England were playing France and one of the French players gave Pearce a headbutt, proper one and all cause his nose was pumping blood after it.... What did Psycho do??? Ill tell you what he done, he browned himself.

The man likes people to think he is hard but he is just a bully and when it was put to him, he shyed away. if i find the vid ill post it.

Psycho indeed!!

[robd69]

It was Basile Boli in '92 I think and it was a sly dig after which Boli legged it up the pitch. What is Pearce gonna do? Run after him, lamp him and get himself sent off.

Find the video, you'll see I am right.

You may not like Pearce's style but he never shyed away.

[robd69]

Ok, only approved comments from now. I don't want a Forest - Leicester keyboard war here.

[robd69]

I wondered why viewings for this had gone sky-high and then I found it was linked from the Guardian You Tube round up page :-)

Have another classic Psycho 'tackle' on Ted McMinn that I'll capture and get uploaded when I get time, possibly get him going right through McMahon at Anfield too.

[bobhairi]

Pearce and Vinnie Jones are both tough bastards,lmao

[bigbadbade]

The story i remember as one of the England players told it in an interview was Pearce got dropped with a headbutt from Basil Boli, who then legged it back to his position after the corner. Pearce then got up and went to the France right winger who he was marking, pointed to the cut and blood and said "you did this, you come anywhere near me and i'm gonna fucking do ya". The player shit himself and didn;t go anywher enear Pearce for the rest of the game.

[Qboy316]

first one should have been red imho...

[NIKFANTASTIC]

WTF? He won the ball both times - EVERYBODY knows Stuart ALWAYS wins the ball! Fucking ref and lino are blind!!! :)

[NIKFANTASTIC]

we won it you dumb ass.... especially as this was a league cup game and we won the cup doh!

[delunaman]

I'm Brazilian and I gotta tell ya you're right, though Pearce was a relatively respected player around here, specially in the later 80's.

By the way, I'm curious: without Ashley Cole and Wayne Bridge, who's gonna solve the English Team's left-back issue? Who's the supporters' favourite man for the position? Is there a chance Capello improvises Gareth Barry?

[namiado]

Stuart should have gone after the first tackle. However, despite the odd shocking tackle, he goes down in history as perhaps England's best ever left back. He's certainly in the top three alongside Kenny Sansom and Terry Cooper. A real hero and legend!!

[TheForest7980]

Intercepta, i beg to differ about Forest losing, they held out for a 0-0 draw with Brian Rice playing left back, won the replay 2-1, and went on to win the cup. Remember that night at filbert street very well - plenty of arrests after -

[TheForest7980]

completely wrong intercepta - forest drew 0-0 at filbert street, beat the scum 2-1 in the replay and went on and won the cup that year.

[Uponthetrent]

top comment mate