Post by QPR Report on Apr 1, 2009 14:50:17 GMT
Just the profile reminds us - although as I recall Venables was set to sign him just before he joined Coventry.
[Another old habbit: QPR Report's spelling problems!
Football 365 = PEARCE: TOUGH START HELPED MY CAREER
England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce believes that beginning in humble surroundings helped pave the way for his illustrious playing career.
Frank Lampard revealed earlier this week his feelings that young players are given far too easy a ride by their clubs and their commitment and dedication has suffered as a result.
The England and Chelsea midfielder believes gone are the days when young players cleaned the boots of the senior professionals and helped maintain the training facilities.
Such trappings of wealth are a far cry from Pearce's experience of trying to make the grade as a professional in the early 1980s.
After failing a trial at QPR, Pearce settled for playing non-league football at Wealdstone while training and working as an electrician.
He eventually got his big break at the age of 21 when Bobby Gould signed him for Coventry.
Two years later in 1985 he earned a big move to Nottingham Forest, where he would spend 12 years and go on to win the majority of his 78 England caps.
However, so unsure was Pearce of his footballing future, that for some time after his move to the City Ground he actually advertised his services as an electrician in Forest's matchday programme.
Speaking after Tuesday night's 2-0 defeat to France Under-21s, the 46-year-old said: "When I came through the system I worked for five years doing a job. I couldn't take anything for granted and that served me well and I draw on that experience now.
"I don't have any regrets about my career and I feel that coming up the way I did helped me to go on to bigger and better things.
"I've not got the experience of being a young player brought up through a club, although I'm sure that some of that is fantastic preparation for a career.
"But I think what we are talking about is young men who need to keep a level tilt on everything that goes on around them, and some manage to do that but some others we lose.
"It's still the same as it was maybe 30 years ago, there have always been distractions. You have the same players and some let things go to their heads and some don't. You have some fantastic kids from start to finish and you have some who are not.
"And maybe that's the sad thing about football, but there are a lot of good professionals out there who get brought up in the right way who have got a great mentality to football and life.
"Some are swayed by whatever and won't have a long career in the game and won't maximise what their potential suggests they should and that's the nature of life basically, not just football."
www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8682_5130302,00.html
[Another old habbit: QPR Report's spelling problems!
Football 365 = PEARCE: TOUGH START HELPED MY CAREER
England Under-21 manager Stuart Pearce believes that beginning in humble surroundings helped pave the way for his illustrious playing career.
Frank Lampard revealed earlier this week his feelings that young players are given far too easy a ride by their clubs and their commitment and dedication has suffered as a result.
The England and Chelsea midfielder believes gone are the days when young players cleaned the boots of the senior professionals and helped maintain the training facilities.
Such trappings of wealth are a far cry from Pearce's experience of trying to make the grade as a professional in the early 1980s.
After failing a trial at QPR, Pearce settled for playing non-league football at Wealdstone while training and working as an electrician.
He eventually got his big break at the age of 21 when Bobby Gould signed him for Coventry.
Two years later in 1985 he earned a big move to Nottingham Forest, where he would spend 12 years and go on to win the majority of his 78 England caps.
However, so unsure was Pearce of his footballing future, that for some time after his move to the City Ground he actually advertised his services as an electrician in Forest's matchday programme.
Speaking after Tuesday night's 2-0 defeat to France Under-21s, the 46-year-old said: "When I came through the system I worked for five years doing a job. I couldn't take anything for granted and that served me well and I draw on that experience now.
"I don't have any regrets about my career and I feel that coming up the way I did helped me to go on to bigger and better things.
"I've not got the experience of being a young player brought up through a club, although I'm sure that some of that is fantastic preparation for a career.
"But I think what we are talking about is young men who need to keep a level tilt on everything that goes on around them, and some manage to do that but some others we lose.
"It's still the same as it was maybe 30 years ago, there have always been distractions. You have the same players and some let things go to their heads and some don't. You have some fantastic kids from start to finish and you have some who are not.
"And maybe that's the sad thing about football, but there are a lot of good professionals out there who get brought up in the right way who have got a great mentality to football and life.
"Some are swayed by whatever and won't have a long career in the game and won't maximise what their potential suggests they should and that's the nature of life basically, not just football."
www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8682_5130302,00.html