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Everyone knows Nigel Pearson is a tough customer.

Ask the press.

Ask his players.

Ask the wild dogs he fought off in the mountains.

Yes, you did actually read that right.

You see, Nigel Pearson was walking in the Carpathian mountains on his own, as you do, when he was attacked by a pack of wild dogs.

He spoke of the incident in a Sky Sports documentary and revealed: "There was five of them.

"What they do is that one goes for you and the others [circle] around until one of them can bring you down – what they essentially do is rip the throat out.”

He said he had escaped them first time by throwing himself into a “patch of brambles and nettles” hoping the dogs would not follow.

When they returned he used his walking poles to attack them.

He added: "I backed myself against a tree.

“I thought ‘I don’t want to get attacked from behind’. I was absolutely goosed by this point.”

He then reveals to Sky that he "managed to get rid of them” and it wasn't "a nice experience."

We reckon handling the Villa team could be a doddle if he gets the job.

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Source: Independent