I'm sorry, but your continual need to label people like Pearson with such degrading titles undermines your credibility to comment as far as i'm concerned. Its a shame Scooby, you do raise fair points from time to time but ruin it with these childish tendancies.
Pearson is proving to be a very capable manager for Leicester, and i'm sure he will be for a while longer. A mere 'bootboy' wouldn't be capable of this and would not have had the coaching background he had.
It was never realistically going to work though for him her especially with Lowe taking over, particulalry as Rupert wished to do things his own way. Money was almost certainly the key issue. But I must say, I don't believe Pearson would be doing as good a job as Jan is with the youngsters. And as such Poortvliet is the right man for the job right now. Pearson however, for a more 'typical' league squad would be the better choice.
I firmly believe that the true measure of Pearson would have been how we would perform after a full pre-season with the squad he had (That would never have happened though, the assetts would have been sold off season regardless.) He was clearing up the joint Burley/Dodd/Gorman mess and had to do it quick, he was employed to keep us in the league, the fact of the matter is it was mission accomplished. I firmly believe we didn't truly see what he was capable of as a manager in his short tenure here.