Pearce: Timing was Everything
STUART Pearce believes the timing of Kevin Keegan's departure was crucial to
his appointment as City boss last season.
The Blues manager is enduring a rocky spell at the moment, the club having lost
six successive league games.
But despite the recent poor run of form, Pearce is still relishing the challenges
brought by top-flight management, and he revealed he was surprised to get his chance
last March.
Pearce said: "I knew Kevin wasn't particularly happy from Christmas on. His
body language told me that.
"We only had nine games to go when I took over last season. It enabled the chairman
to have a look at me with nothing to lose. The timing was crucial.
Experience
"If Kevin had walked out before Christmas, I
don't think the board would have come to me, they would have gone to a man with
more experience."
Pearce thinks it will now take something pretty special to entice Keegan back
into football.
He said: "Knowing how Kevin was at the end of his reign here, he was quite
disappointed with the game and the profession. If an opportunity excited him
that much, he would come back in, as he did at City."
