Editing Stuart Pearce (section)

===Amateur football===
On 28 January 2016, at the age of 53 and more than thirteen years after retiring, Pearce signed as a player for non-league side Longford, a club from [[Longford, Gloucestershire]]. The club was dubbed as "the worst in the UK" as they lost all their games at that date with a single goal scored and 179 conceded and lying at the bottom of the [[Gloucestershire Northern Senior League]] Division Two, the [[English football league system|13th tier of English football]].<ref name=Longford>{{cite news | title = England legend Stuart Pearce signs for Longford AFC | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-35428976 |publisher=BBC News | date = 28 January 2016 | access-date =28 January 2016}}</ref> On 12 March, Pearce made his debut for Longford as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 loss against Wotton Rovers.<ref>{{cite news | title = Stuart Pearce makes Longford AFC debut as sub | url =  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35794620 |publisher=BBC News | date = 12 March 2016 | access-date = 12 March 2016}}</ref>