How Twitter Reacted to Nigel Pearson's 'Ostrich' Rant and Apology

It's safe to say that Nigel Pearson has never been regarded as the most endearing man in world football. However, the Leicester manager's reputation took even more of a tumble on Wednesday evening during the post-match press conference that followed his side's 3-1 defeat... 

As you can see, Pearson appeared to berate local journalist Ian Baker for a seemingly innocuous question before concluding that he must be a flightless bird. Baker took the unprovoked outburst in good spirits...

Thanks in part to Pearson's abrasive personality and lack of goodwill from the football community, Twitter had a field day in the hours that followed. For starters, David Brent was not impressed...

Robbie Savage also took his chance to climb aboard the banter train...

Most of the language used to describe the Foxes boss on Twitter has been a little rich for publication here, but the press conference exchange provoked plenty of ostrich-based discourse... 

All eyes were on Pearson for his afternoon press conference on Thursday, with many wondering which members of the press would be compared to which kinds of African wildlife...

However, Pearson decided to take the high road and offered a public apology for his ostrich ostracising ("ostrichising?")...

Despite this display of humility, public opinion on Pearson does not seem to have changed...

"

Will Nigel Pearson now apologise to all ostriches ?

— Joe Wilson (@joewilsonbbc) April 30, 2015"

Pearson didn't help himself by engaging in another testy exchange with BBC journalist Pat Murphy (full transcript here, via The Independent)...

Incredibly, there were a small band of Twitter users who expressed their admiration for Mr. Pearson in the aftermath of his latest controversy...

"

life's too short to pretend you don't like Nigel Pearson

— Ethan #LCFC (@elanglcfc) April 30, 2015"

"

Nigel Pearson's a weird bloke but I like him.

— Adam Costello (@AdamLCostello) April 30, 2015"

At the time of writing, B/R cannot confirm whether the pro-Pearson tweeters are in fact ostriches. 

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