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LIVE: Derby County manager suspended hours before Cardiff game, according to reports
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That Nigel Pearson won't be in charge of Derby County tonight.
Cardiff City Online @CardiffCityLive 5m5 minutes ago
LIVE: Derby County manager suspended hours before Cardiff game, according to reports
weird.
ITK
Derby County manager Nigel Pearson has been suspended by the club - pending an internal investigation - the Derby Telegraph understands.
It follows a meeting between Pearson and Rams owner and chairman Mel Morris at the club's Moor Farm training ground on Monday afternoon.
News of the suspension broke hours before Derby County's Sky Bet Championship fixture against Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium tonight.
Pearson's assistant manager, Chris Powell, will take charge of the team at Cardiff.
Club spokesman Paul Tyrrell said: "Derby County can confirm that manager Nigel Pearson will not be carrying out his duties at tonight's game - at the request of the club.
"Assistant manager Chris Powell will take charge of the team for tonight's Sky Bet Championship match at Cardiff City. The club will make no further comment at this time."
Can't help thinking that this could be bad news for us - according to some of the stuff I read on a Derby forum on Sunday, there are some sensitive souls in their squad who were not reacting well to Pearson's hands on style of management.
According to sky pearson and assistant manager suspended but 5hey then said Powell to take over team tonight now that is strange
Absolute shambles the wins in the bag
My feelings exactly.
Suspended manager bounce. It's a well known phenomenon.
I wonder if this is the usual Pearson-type fall out or if he is about to appear in the Daily Telegraph tomorrow in an Alardyce follow up? Sky News earlier were saying there are another 10 managers who fell into the summer sting operation and some were less restrained than Big Sam.