尼格尔·皮尔逊

尼祖·格拉咸·皮雅臣（Nigel Graham Pearson，）出生于英格兰东米德兰兹诺丁汉郡的诺丁汉，是一名前职业足球员，司职后卫，退役后担任领队，之前任教英超球会莱斯特城。
皮雅臣于球员时期曾效力梳士贝利、锡周三及米杜士堡。退役后转向教练工作发展，首先出任卡素尔的领队，其后加入多支大球队的教练团，曾在西布朗、英格兰U21及纽卡素担任助理领队，并在领队出缺时暂代职务，其后执教修咸顿、侯城及两度效力莱斯特城。
教练及领队.
As manager of Carlisle United, Pearson helped to keep the club in the Football League at the end of the 1998–99 season. He signed goalkeeper Jimmy Glass on loan, who scored an injury-time goal against Plymouth Argyle, saving the club from relegation to the Football Conference at the expense of Scarborough. The match was Pearson's last in charge of the Brunton Park outfit.
In 1999 he was recruited as Stoke City's first team coach by Gary Megson. Although Megson was sacked later that year by the club's Icelandic consortium, Pearson was kept on for a further two years under Gudjon Thordarson, before being sacked in 2001.
Pearson moved to West Bromwich Albion in November 2004 as assistant manager to Bryan Robson, and took over as caretaker manager when Robson left the club in September 2006. Albion won three and drew one of his matches in charge, before stepping down from the role in preparation for the arrival of new manager Tony Mowbray.
On 19 October 2006, he was linked with the Sheffield Wednesday manager's position but instead took over as assistant manager of Newcastle United, replacing Kevin Bond, who was dismissed following a bung scandal. Pearson's influence was most apparent in Newcastle's defence, which looked a lot more composed after Pearson became assistant manager.
On 1 February 2007, Pearson was confirmed as assistant coach to Stuart Pearce, the England U21 team manager, until after the 2007 European Championships. As Pearce's contract limited him to involvement in only one friendly before the Championship, Pearson led the under-21s in their 3–3 draw against Italy on 24 March 2007, the first game at the new Wembley Stadium.
When Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder resigned on 6 May 2007, Nigel Pearson took charge of the remaining game of the season, away to Watford. Pearson stayed on at Newcastle as a coach following the arrival of Sam Allardyce as manager at the club. On 9 January, following the departure of manager Sam Allardyce, he was re-appointed as caretaker manager for Newcastle's trip to Manchester United. Newcastle lost 6–0, thanks to a Cristiano Ronaldo hat trick, a brace from Carlos Tévez and a rare Rio Ferdinand goal. On 16 January 2008, after Kevin Keegan had been announced as the next permanent manager of the club, Pearson took charge of the team for the 3rd round FA Cup replay against Stoke City, which Newcastle won 4–1. On 8 February, though, it was announced that Pearson had left the club.
On 18 February 2008, Pearson was appointed as manager of Southampton on a rolling contract. His career at Southampton got off to a poor start, losing 2–0 to Plymouth Argyle on the day he took charge; he thus had no involvement in selecting the team. He saw his first point and goal away at Scunthorpe United.
On 4 May 2008, with only one game to go at home to Sheffield United, the Saints were facing relegation to League 1. After going 1–0 down, Pearson's side pulled-off an impressive comeback to win the game 3–2, and secure Championship status for another season, at the expense of Leicester City, who could only manage a 0–0 draw with Stoke City. On 30 May 2008, Pearson was replaced by Dutch coach Jan Poortvliet after only three months in charge.
On 20 June 2008, Pearson was appointed as manager of Leicester City. Craig Shakespeare became the club's first team coach and co-assistant manager alongside Steve Walsh (a former Chelsea chief scout, and not the Leicester City player of the same name). As well as having worked together on the West Bromwich Albion coaching staff, the two had also played together at Sheffield Wednesday. Shakespeare once said that Pearson was the best captain he had ever played under. Pearson was named League One manager of the month for August 2008 after Leicester won three of their first four games, scoring nine goals and conceding only once. He was also named the League 1 manager of the month in December 2008. On 18 April 2009, Leicester won 2–0 at Southend United, confirming their promotion back to the Championship as League One champions, in a season which saw them break several club records including the longest unbeaten run in the league for a 23 match stretch without defeat between 1 November 2008 and 7 March 2009.
Leicester continued their upsurge in form under Pearson, finishing an impressive 5th place in their first season back in the Championship, booking themselves a place in the Championship play-offs. However, they were defeated by Cardiff City by virtue of a penalty shoot-out in the play-off semi final, despite fighting back from a 2 goal deficit in the second leg.
At the end of the season, Pearson took a hard line on controversial Leicester defender Wayne Brown, who had publicly admitted in front of his team mates - including some of ethnic minority backgrounds - that he had voted for the far right British National Party in the general election on 6 May. He dropped Brown from the side for the playoffs. During the close season, Brown left the club to sign for Preston North End.
On 29 June 2010, he was appointed Hull City manager. 
Despite severe financial difficulties following relegation from the Premier League, Pearson was still able to make some movement in the transfer market, bringing in players such Nolberto Solano, Liam Rosenior, Robert Koren and Jay Simpson. Despite winning the opening game against the future play-off winners Swansea City, Hull City under Pearson endured a slow start to the campaign. Things began to turn for the better when the club won their first away game in over a year at Norwich City in September. Following that victory, Pearson led the club to breaking a 66-year-old record of consecutive away games without defeat.. The season ended with an 11th-place finish.