This is Leicestershire --Nigel Pearson celebrated his 50th birthday this week, which in this rich streak of half-century anniversaries we are in makes him younger than the Beatles and James Bond, but older than Doctor Who and Match of the Day.
He has had an interesting coaching and managerial career to date.
It started at Brunton Park in 1998-99 when he kept Carlisle United in the Football League thanks to an injury-time goal from on-loan goalkeeper Jimmy Glass in the final game of the season.
A first-team coach position at Stoke was then followed by an assistant manager's role at Premier League side West Brom under former Middlesbrough team-mate Bryan Robson.
Pearson got his second taste of management in a successful four-game spell after Robson's sacking.
The caretaker-manager role was one he would experience twice at Newcastle during a turbulent spell as assistant manager under Glenn Roeder and then Sam Allardyce.
This time, his brief spell in charge was in the Premier League and included a 6-0 trashing at Old Trafford.
He picked up the managerial reins again at Southampton in February of the 2007-08 season and managed to rescue them from relegation to League One on the final day of the season with a 3-2 win against Sheffield United.
That was great news for the Saints, but not such good news for Leicester City, who went down to the third tier for the first time in their history.
Having buried us, Pearson was then appointed to dig us back out of the hole, which he did with a minimum of fuss at a time when the likes of Nottingham Forest and Leeds failed to bounce straight back at the first attempt.
Pearson's first season at City ended with the League One trophy being held aloft, and having the same manager through the entire season was quite a novelty in the Milan Mandaric years.
Pearson's second campaign saw City moving onwards and upwards, missing out in the play-off semi-finals thanks to Yann Kermorgant's car-crash penalty kick on a dramatic night in Cardiff.
But Milan Mandaric wasn't quite finished with his meddling as he handed over ownership to the Thais and Pearson left for Hull, to be replaced by Paulo Sousa.
During Leicester's brief and fruitless dalliance with glamorous foreign managers (Sven-Goran Eriksson succeeding the bewildered Sousa) we couldn't help notice that the KC Stadium outfit, on a very limited budget, were doing rather better than us.
Following Sven's sacking, Pearson was eventually persuaded away from Hull and reappointed as City boss in November 2011.
Trying to mould some of Sven's signings into a team proved to be too big a task and City finished ninth.
Perhaps more suited to his methodological approach, a full pre-season of preparation and his own signings for 2012-13 once again led to a play-off place, again painfully ended by a Frenchman taking a penalty.
And so both City and Pearson are now waiting for the great leap forward.
The club are in desperate need of Premier League football, while Pearson needs to prove that there is no glass ceiling of achievement above him etched 'Championship play-off semis'.
Hopefully, both these things can be achieved this season. It has been a decent start.
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