Not quite. He did win the league, this league, also known as the Championship. He then kept Leicester in the Premier League, building a squad so impressive that with relatively few additions it defied decades of PL expectation and won that league. Pearson was sacked not for his managerial...
To the unaware, who are positioned 1 and 2? My guess is that they might plump for at least one of the two Champions League winners, with Pearson as the other alternative.