nigel pearson is hoping leicester city can take their relegation fight to the final day where he has a remarkable record of success the leicester manager has twice before worked last match miracles in charge of teams in trouble and would love the opportunity to complete a hat trick ‘of course i would i’ve been in plenty,’ said pearson nigel pearson barks orders from the bench at king power stadium as leicester manage only a draw to hull  pearson knows he's in a scrap for survival in the premier league but fighting to the end isn't new to him  leicester, rooted to the bottom of the premier league and seven points from safety, look to have bleak prospects of reaching that stage still in contention to avoid the drop the draw against hull was a significant opportunity missed but pearson has history of achieving the improbable in his first manager’s job at carlisle he masterminded one of the most famous last day survival acts when goalkeeper jimmy glass struck decisively with the last kick of their division three season in 1998 99 nine years later pearson was brought in to take charge of southampton, struggling in the championship, and guided the team to safety with a last gasp victory he was also bryan robson’s assistant when west bromwich albion stayed up against the odds in the final game of the 2004 05 premier league campaign leicester's esteban cambiasso fights to dispossess hull's jake livermore in a disappointing draw  leicester keeper mark schwarzer punches clear despite the jumps of dame n'doye (hull) and ritchie de laet  he is aware leicester, without a premier league victory in eight games, must start wining soon to have any chance and he was disappointed with his team’s display ‘it’s another opportunity lost against a side who we needed to pick up three points against,’ he said ‘in some ways i’d stomach us losing the game being more positive trying to win it, than picking up a point having been a bit safe time will tell whether that is the right way to look at it or not ‘(the gap) is a lot at this stage of the season we’re going to have to turn our form on its head the point is we’ve got to perform the players know we haven’t done enough to win the game i would like to have seen us show a bit more intent’
nigel pearson last day first carlisle division three 1998 99 southampton the final day of the season nine years later premier league
nigel pearson twice orchestrated last day survival miracles as a manager  in his first job as manager he kept carlisle in division three in 1998 99  southampton fought until the final day of the season nine years later  bottom leicester haven't won a premier league game in eight starts 