Nigel Pearson might have joined a strange list after his side’s late but great victory against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday: Harry Houdini, David Blaine, Dean Gunnarson and Anthony Gallup.
How does Pearson fit into this set of niche names? They’re escape artists and the City manager has created a happy knack, or not so happy when you consider why he’s escaping, of getting out of tight holes himself.
He’s made sure that when the Robins seem body bound in rope of handcuffed in a box underwater they have found a way to gnaw free of their binding restrictions and rise to the surface for another breath. This isn’t meant as a metaphor for staving off relegation, that has luckily never seemed too likely this season despite the large troughs for every late Ewood Park peak that there has also been.
