Name: Stuart James Pearson
Nickname: "Pancho"



Country: England
Club: Manchester United F.C.
Position: *CF
Side: RF/RS
Age: 27-29 years (21/06/1949)

Height: 175 cm
Weight: 79 kg

Attack: 84
Defence: 44
Balance: 86
Stamina: 82
Top Speed: 82
Acceleration: 82
Response: 87
Agility: 82
Dribble Accuracy: 78
Dribble Speed: 79
Short Pass Accuracy: 78
Short Pass Speed: 77
Long Pass Accuracy: 73
Long Pass Speed: 76
Shot Accuracy: 84
Shot Power: 86
Shot Technique: 86
Free Kick Accuracy: 65
Curling: 74
Header: 86
Jump: 84
Technique: 80
Aggression: 84
Mentality: 83
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 80

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 6
Consistency: 6
Growth type: Standard/Lasting

CARDS:
P13 - Goal Poacher
S05 - 1-touch Pass

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Scoring - Reaction - 1-touch Play

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack-Minded


INFO:
Stuart Pearson was a predatory, skilful striker, all rounder, everything around 12-6yars box - just give it to Stuart. Blessed with physical presence and ferocious shot, Pearson had a great body balance, heading skills, one touch play. Likes to play with his back, very mobile, would go back to the middle to receive it. Pearson was always available for a pass and when he got the ball his control was deft or he would lay it off first time or use his searing pace to go past people, his finishing sometimes let him down though he did pack a fierce shot, he was difficult to mark and along with Jimmy Greenhoff - his perfect partner- he posed problems for defenders. Barry Davies described Stuart Pearson as a 'Big Occasion Player, and were it not for his injuries would have been England's finest Striker.'

Pearson started his career with hometown club Hull City, whom he joined as an amateur while doing an apprenticeship as a telephone engineer. He scored 44 league goals for the Tigers after becoming a first team regular when record scorer Chris Chilton left in 1971. An assistant manager to Terry Neill at the time was Tommy Docherty, who subsequently became manager of Manchester United and signed Pearson in May 1974 for £200,000. Pearson was bought by Manchester United after they were relegated to the Second Division and was instrumental in getting the club promoted back to the First Division the next season by scoring 17 goals. Every time he scored a goal he would celebrate with a raised right fist. He was in the team that lost 1–0 to Southampton in the 1976 FA Cup Final. The next year Pearson helped Manchester United win the 1977 FA Cup Final against Liverpool, scoring the first of Manchester United's goals in their 2–1 win. He was sidelined for all of the 1978–79 season due to a knee injury but made a full recovery before leaving Manchester United (66 goals in 188 appearances in all competitions) for West Ham United in August 1979. He helped the Hammers win the 1980 FA Cup Final, with his cross-shot setting up Trevor Brooking for the only goal in a 1–0 win over Arsenal. Pearson retired from league football in 1982 due to a knee injury, but continued to play at a lower level, in South Africa and the NASL.

He won 15 caps for England between 1976 and 1978, scoring five goals. Pearson made his full international debut in a 1-0 British Home Championship win against Wales at Ninian Park in May of 1976, and registered his first goal for his nation in a 4-0 demolition of Northern Ireland at Wembley Stadium three days later. His next goal came in a 4-1 World Cup Qualifier triumph over Finland at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki on the 13th of the following month and he hit another one in a 1-1 friendly draw against the Republic of Ireland at Wembley on the 8th of September the same year. England boss Don Revie kept faith with him and he proceeded to score five senior goals in fifteen appearances for The Three Lions, but his international career came to an end with the appointment of former West Ham United manager Ron Greenwood and he made his final outing for his homeland in a close 1-0 victory over Northern Ireland at Wembley in the British Home Championship on the 8th of May 1978.