alex pearce

"I BOUGHT a needle off eBay, got some ice out and numbed it (the area) up. Had a couple of beers to numb my senses further, and then just went through with it." That is Alex Pearce talking about the time he pierced his nose back in 2021. On the face of it, it does sound like a very COVID-era thing to have done. And in hindsight, the Fremantle captain admits that he did go through with it mainly because he was bored at home like everyone else. It wasn't totally on a whim, though. Pearce had thought about doing it for a while. Unlike with the origin story of his very impressive mane, which he pu