THE CUNNING FOX - LEICESTER CITY NEWS - 30.06.2010

Fans talk: Scandinavian Fan Voice, please stay calm

We are over the sea, but we follow the club closely everyday and devoted fans Ulf Larsen and Ivar Tisthammer are both optmistic in front of the new season, despite Pearson's exit

Larsen said " I hope the club will manage to get over this and appoint a new and good manager. Larsen continued "The continuity with Powell could be seen as a posssible appointment of Alan Curbishley. Curbishley is a man that likes a challenge and is experienced."

Larsen would see the Pearson exit as an oppertunity to get a man in that knows how to promote clubs from the Championship and establish a team with great talent at the very highest level.

The squad put together by Pearson and his men will get their continuity under caretaker boss Chris Powell. Powell is one of the most respected players in the game today and has worked with the players over the last two seasons.

Powell is well spoken, can handle the media and has a great knowledge of the game. 

Tisthammer continues saying "I  hope that people talking on behalf of different supporter unions will get behind the new manager who ever he will be, Pearson might be our saviour, but he is no longer at Leicester and we just have to be supportive and hope for the best. Pearson was not forced out. He was not willing to put pen to paper to a new contract. Then it is time to support those who are still here, for the time they are in charge, and hope that the club will manage to progress. Leicester City is a club that we all have to stand behind, who ever owns it, who ever play right back or sits on the sub bench. We all hope for a move in the right direction."

Tisthammer continues, "I am the first to admit that if Milan had been successful in his first two years at the club, things could have been different. We must again trust Milan, that he can appoint the right man and that we can move forward from the loss of Nigel Pearson."

We could look back to a simular situation in the clubs history. When Leicester was promoted back to the old 1st division in 1971. Frank O'Farrell was tempted by an offer from Man Utd and moved on.

A young and adspiring manager named Jimmy Bloomfield was appointed and we all know what happened. Seven wonderfull years in the top flight.

Bloomfield did some amazing work in the transfer market bringing in players that today are legends at the club. Keith Weller, Alan Birchenall, Dennis Rofe, Frank Worthington and Jon Sammels were his five first signings.

He had to see great young talent leave the club, and had to sell his best players. David Nish left Leicester in 1972 for a new English record fee of £ 250 000. Two years later Peter Shilton joined Stoke for £ 350 000. This was by the time a World Record fee for a goalkeeper. Rob Lee and Chris Garland also left the club during a very successful time.

So it is shown before that we have to go on and hope that the man taking over can do even better than Nigel Pearson, but we can also believe that a new appointment would be destroying.

We have no choice, we need a new manager, let's think that he can be better than Pearson.

Up the Foxes !