Stuart Pearce, nicknamed Psycho, was a ferociously committed left-back whose thunderous tackling and equally thunderous shooting made him a cult hero at Nottingham Forest, where he captained the side for many years. His raw passion embodied the English game.
For England he endured the pain of a missed penalty in the 1990 World Cup semi-final, only to gain redemption with a roaring conversion at Euro 96, one of the tournament’s defining images.