Nigel Pearson has made Leicester City so hard to beat
A sell-out crowd will grace the Walkers Stadium and tensions will be high.
Perhaps the coolest customer of all will be Pearson himself, despite being Nottingham-born and obviously keen to set the record straight after December’s disappointment at the City Ground.
Pearson is not the most animated interviewee but he remains fascinating, primarily for his record as Leicester City manager.
The show highlighted Pearson’s results in the hot seat and focused in particular on his remarkable achievement of losing just 11 of his 78 games in charge of City.
It really is an astonishing record given the poor state the club was in when he took over.
To give you an idea of how difficult Pearson has made City to beat, current League One leaders Norwich City have already lost six games this season.
All that we care about at the moment is winning against Nottingham Forest, something we spectacularly failed to do at the end of last year.
Pearson’s television interview was followed closely by all five Forest goals in not-so glorious Technicolour.
It was the first time I had seen them since observing painfully from the away end and it was not a pretty sight.
The back four seemed to make error after error that afternoon but, as we saw on Tuesday night in Doncaster, City are proving that they are in the play-off chase for the long haul and proving a lot of people wrong.
I include myself in that as I really thought Matty Fryatt’s injury would cost us.
But City have now picked up eight fine points from four games and must surely be in confident mood with Forest visiting.
Go on, boys, make it 11 from five.
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