Non-League Paper

PEARCEY WAS THE ULTIMATE

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
5 April 2020

PLATFORM FOR SUCCESS: Stuart Pearce for Coventry City and Wealdstone, inset, and West Ham’s Michail Antonio, below
PICTURE: PA Images

IPLAYED with many lads who came through from Non-League football, but the best was undoubtedly Stuart Pearce
I was captain of Coventry City during the 1983-84 season when he came to us from Wealdstone. Famously, he was working as an electrician at the time.
For a lad of 21 with no professional experience it was a hell of a jump - Alliance Premier League all the way to the old First Division.
But Pearcey made the single best debut I’ve eve...

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