PMBlackburn published Peter Blackburn: Stuart Pearce is still my hero and has made...

DURING my childhood I, like many Nottingham Forest fans, was given two qualities that I knew would be unchanged throughout my life regardless of where life took me. The first was that the Reds were my team and the second that Stuart Pearce would be my hero.I grew up in a difficult age for Nottingham Forest fans. The 90's brought some joy before seeing us relegated from the Premier League – never (yet) to return. My first season ticket saw Paul Hart struggling to keep up play-off form from.