I will reply to this one.
I am indeed bereft. I have followed this football club since the 80's, and very rarely in those 40+ years has any manager given me REAL belief.
I can name the ones that have.
Cooper, Jordan, Johnson Senior (although I never took to him), Cotterill.
Now we have another.
But Pearson doesn't just give me belief that he can build a path to the promised land. It's much, much more than that.
Because none of the other names that I have lauded had to put right such a mess (created by the people in charge), whilst at the same time slashing the wage bill, promoting youth to the first team and frankly being given the bare minimum of support from above.
And all this while the clowns upstairs talk of promotion.
And having done all that, plus turning youth into multi-million pound sales, he gets the taps turned off.
You can dress it up any way you like. But it is obvious to anybody who cares to look, that the Lansdowns do not like Pearson.
So. We ask ourselves the question why.
And in our research we look at other managers that they have fallen out with.
And then we can only come to the conclusion that this pattern has nothing to do with results on the field or any ability to do the job and give the support base licence to dream, but more to do with the hierarchies insistence on adulation, subservience and the ability to interfere beyond their skillset (whatever THAT is).
I hope this answers your question.
Best wishes.