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#2 Nigel Pearson - Leicester City
In 2011, Nigel Person joined Leicester City for a second spell with the club. The squad which Pearson inherited had finished 10th in the Championship in the previous season and the Englishman had a Herculean task on his hand to take the club to the Premier League.
Under Pearson, the Foxes finished ninth in the 2011/12 season and in the following season, he led them to a sixth-placed finish and thus qualified for the Premier League playoffs. However, Leicester failed to reach the playoffs final after Anthony Knockheart missed a last minute penalty against Watford which would have taken them to the final. But in the 2013/14 season, Leicester didn’t leave their Premier League hopes for the playoffs and directly gained promotion after winning the Championship.
After reaching the Premier League, the Foxes started brightly and even claimed an emphatic 5-3 win over Manchester United despite trailing 3-1 at one point. However, after 29 league games, the club found themselves at the bottom of the table with just 19 points and four wins overall.
At this point, Leicester were favourites to get relegated, but what happened in the next nine games is what scripts of dramatic movies are made of. Leicester went on to win seven of the last nine games while losing only once to eventual champions Chelsea and finished the season in 14th place!
Despite the work Pearson put into taking Leicester to the Premier League and then to keep the club in the Premier League, he was sacked on 30 June 2015 with the club stating that “the working relationship between Nigel and the Board is no longer viable”.
