- Born
- Nicknames
- Psycho
- Pearcey
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Stuart Pearce started his professional footballing career with Coventry City in 1983, playing 52 games. After two years Brian Clough bought him for Nottingham Forest (transfer fee £240,000). He played for 12 seasons with Nottingham Forest, winning the League Cup in 1989 and 1990. He also finished runners up in the 1991 FA Cup, when Forest lost 2-1 to Tottenham Hotspur with Pearce scoring from a free-kick in that game.
Left Forest to play for Newcastle in 1997 and then moved to West Ham after two years. In 2001 he moved to Man City and is still there as a coach after retiring as a player three days before he was 40.
He made his England debut against Brazil in 1987 and has earned 78 caps for his country, scoring 5 times. Missed a penalty in the World Cup semi-final in 1990 when England lost to West Germany. However, he made amends in Euro 1996 when he scored from the spot against the same opponents but England still lost in the semi-final.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Thomas Royce
- Former England international footballer.
- The defender played for England in the FIFA World Cup of 1990 and the UEFA European Championships of 1992 and 1996.
- Usually an expert penalty taker, he infamously missed a vital penalty which helped knock his country out of the semifinals of the 1990 World Cup.
- Took two penalties and scored both for England in the 1996 European Championship, in the quarter-final shootout against Spain and in the semi-final shootout against Germany, finally relieving the pain of his penalty miss in 1990.
- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to sports.
- We'd have won the tournament if we'd won the penalty shoot-out. We didn't, and went out to the best team. That's life, it hurts and the pain never mellows. But I still think about that game, and the 1990 semi-final, because I draw experience from them. I have to make sure the lessons learned are passed on. (On England versus Germany at Euro '96)
- Football should be more than just practising penalties. At the end of it, it should be knowing full well who are the best penalty takers from one to 23. We never done that.
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