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Your support makes all the difference.Leicester manager Nigel Pearson offered the best managerial rant of the season last night after his team lost 3-1 to Chelsea, after launched an attack on reporter Ian Baker, asking him whether he was "an ostrich" if his head was "flexible enough to get in the sand".
After Pearson spoke of “the amount of criticism and negativity [his players] have had to endure over the course of the season”, Baker asked him to specify what criticism and the following extraordinary exchange ensued in which Pearson repeatedly belittled the journalist.
What criticism are you talking about?
Have you been on holiday for six months? Have you been away for six months?
I am not quite sure what specific criticism you are referring to?
I think you must have been either head in the clouds or away on holiday or reporting on a different team because if you don’t know the answer to that question your question is absolutely unbelievable the fact you do not understand where I am coming from. 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.
Ian Baker tweeted after the incident:
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Pearson is holding another press conference today, reporters beware.
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