You’d have thought four wins in five would have been enough to keep a smile on the face of Nigel Pearson.
You’d be gravely wrong.
The Leicester manager let rip with yet another, even more bizarre, tirade at journalists after the Foxes’ 3-1 defeat to Chelsea tonight.
After being asked by a reporter about to explain his comments about the criticism that his players had faced this season, Pearson came out with some absolute gems.
“If you don’t know the answer to that question then I think you are an ostrich. Your head must be in the sand. Is your head in the sand? Are you flexible enough to get your head in the sand? My suspicion would be no.”
When the journalist responded by saying “probably not,” Pearson seemed to brag about his ability to do so.
“I can, you can’t. You can’t. Listen you have been here often enough and for you to ask that question, you are either being very, very silly or you are being absolutely stupid, one of the two because for you to ask that question, I am sorry son, you are daft.”
And when the reporter dared to try once more to get the answer out of Pearson, whose anger has been seen this season when he strangled a player and called another journalist a “pr*ck,” the Leicester boss replied with this.
“You are wrong. No, you are wrong. You have been in here, I know you have so don’t give that crap with me, please don’t give that crap with me. I will smile at you because I can afford to smile at you. Now do you want to ask a different question or do you want to ask it differently. Come on, ask it. Ask it or are you not capable?”
Enjoy the exchange in all its glory here.
