We really hope that Alan Pardew has learned from his most recent escapade on the touchline as the Newcastle manager, and he either fixes the problem – by taking some anger management classes or whatever it takes to control that fiery temper of his – or decides after his touchline ban of seven games, that he will sit in the stands during the games, so such touchline incidents cannot happen in the future.
Jose Mourinho and Alan Pardew at St. James’ Park – I love you man
But it seems that after the tumultuous news coverage of his head butt on David Meyler, he has been given support by some of the managers in the Premier League.
And he even says it has strengthened his relationship with owner Mike Ashley and we have to think Mike and Alan have talked one-on-one after the incident – and more than once.
Alan Pardew has been talking to the Shields Gazette and this is some of what he had to say:
“It’s nice to hear from your senior managers. I’ve had a few calls. I have to say they’ve lifted my spirits.”
“When the Press are being so critical, as they were, it’s nice to know people still care about you in the football community.”
“The working part of the football community is with you.”
And one of the managers who gave Alan a lot of support after the most recent altercation was Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho – the special one – who had this to say about Alan:
“I like Alan. We speak on the phone not every week but almost every week. We are good friends. I had a very good relationship with him even when I was in Italy and Spain.”
“I spoke with Alan a couple of hours after the incident and he knows that he made a mistake and he knows he has to pay for the mistake. ” “But for me, more important than that, he is a good friend and he is a great guy.”
“Was Alan’s mistake that we are not used to seeing? Yes, it was, he’s willing to pay for it.”
It’s good that Alan Pardew got some support in the last two weeks – but he has to change and change quickly.
He shouldn’t confuse the better relationship with Mike Ashley and the support from some of the top PL managers as anything too positive, because if he does this stuff again he’s in really big trouble – and we mean big trouble.
If this kind of thing happens one more time, he’ll be fired by Mike Ashley – and quite honestly if it does happen again – he’ll deserve to be fired.
Alan Pardew cannot keep creating bad headlines around the world, for a club with the great traditions of Newcastle United.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
66 comments so far
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:06 AM
Comment #1My first match of the season! Shame I’m going to be in the Fulham end…
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:13 AM
Comment #2Maybe he could combine those anger management classes with some football lesson classes!
…that black book of his is either very empty or is looks like my logbook 😉 full of drawings! lol
*It is no dig – I like the guy, but I just don’t want him as our manager! It is as simple as that.
Charlie in the Gallowgate
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM
Comment #3ding dong to score
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:20 AM
Comment #4Jesper
Why can’t you just get behind the team and manager? At least until the end of the season and reassess it then. It’s not as if there are outstanding candidates queuing up for the job…
geordie157
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:22 AM
Comment #5Are we still talking about this. Pretty sure there’s a game today!
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Comment #6Tds…you need to be able to separate the team from both the manager and the owner.
…they are not the same mate 😉
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM
Comment #7…what you are asking is called the lemmings effect and I don’t swing that way!
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Comment #8To my neither Mike Ashley or Alan Pardew has nothing to do with the Newcastle I support and never will!
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:44 AM
Comment #9*me
firebug666
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:44 AM
Comment #10I fancy us to put a few goals past Fulham today, I know we are missing two of our very best players in Debuchy and Remy, but even so, LDJ to score today and maybe more than one, (just being greedy) and Sissoko maybe for another, but if he plays with LDG linking up Cisse may get a brace.
Now back to my real life fantasy:
4 – 0 to Toon today.
Greebol1892
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:45 AM
Comment #11Does anyone remember how dodgy Coloccini was in the first season he joined us? And yet people are already writing MYM off as a shit defender since we shipped 6 vs Liverpool……
This lad actually wants to play for the shirt and should be our Captain and 1st-choice CB. Shame our manager can’t see that. Yet Colo will come straight back in while he still can’t read long direct ball towards our box. Fcukin scandalous. Hopefully time will tell but such a class player won’t sit on the bench forever…..
We SHOULD beat Fulham easily…. HTL
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:56 AM
Comment #12Jesper
Like or not you can’t seperate the manager and the team, they all come under one group
Just look at Colo’s comments earlier in the week, like it or not the lads obviously have respect for Pardew and he’s as bigger part of the team as anyone
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:59 AM
Comment #13Firebug
Glad to see others are also optimistic!
I went with 3-0 with LDJ Sissoko and Goofy (Goofy seems to like scoring away against London clubs!)
We need to start fast though today, Fulham will come out fighting and our bench may look a little thin without Remy Debuchy or HBA in the match day squad
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 9:59 AM
Comment #14Jesper
But why on earth not? Pardew represents our club in the same way as the players. He’s not as good as SBR in the same way that LDJ is no Shearer.
Mike Ashley is a businessman and I neither support him or want him gone. That’s all he is, the owner. I don’t demand that Richard Branson leaves when a train is late or Cameron resigns when my local council don’t fix potholes. And yes, he’s made some bad decisions but so have many of the players.
I just don’t see the point in so much negativity. Isn’t that a mackems job?
Pardew has done a decent job this season, I’m not sure what people like you actually expected from him…
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Comment #15tads…it is working well for me!
…if you guys cannot do that then that is your problem mate!
*You guys need to do what works for you and I’ll do what works for me 🙂 I don’t take part in the lemming effect!
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:03 AM
Comment #16Tds…you confuse criticism with negativity mate.
I you cannot separate the club, from Mike and Alan then that is fine with me mate – to me that have nothing to do with each other.
I have no problem looking at the situation we are in critically and ask questions. My support has a price – I don’t follow unquestionably.
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:04 AM
Comment #17I’m with TADS
And I think once a player or manager has been backed by the club, then the fans should back them too. Anyone who represents my club with the dedication and passion that I demand deserves my respect and support. That does not include Ashley because I don’t feel he represents my club at all and I didn’t support JFK because I don’t think he represented my club with the dedication and professionalism required.
There is not one single player or staff member that I want to see leave this club. Sure, I’d like to see better players in the first team than the likes of Saylor, Shola and Obertan but they still play for my club and I think they deserve our support.
John Tudor
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:05 AM
Comment #18ciao bella
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:05 AM
Comment #19Jesper
Working well for you?
You slate the way the team play
You don’t watch the matches anymore
You don’t seem to like much about NUFC at all come to think of it
How is that working for you?
It’s not the lemming effect at all mate, it’s Newcastle United, the word on the end being key lad
Nothing lemming like about not jumping on the bandwagon
Enjoy the game…..
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:06 AM
Comment #20tds…that is fine with me mate 🙂 I am not really asking if you or tads agree with me 😉
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:06 AM
Comment #21Jesper
Like I said, I see Ashley as different because he doesn’t represent the club in any way, he just owns it. He doesn’t make decisions on match day either which is what I really care about.
But Pardew does. Pardew is part of the team that has got us to 8th place and has a good spirit. Pardew didn’t hire JFK, sell Cabaye or fail to get a replacement for him in January.
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:08 AM
Comment #22Jesper
No problem! 🙂 I’m not telling you what to think or that you’re wrong you’re entitled to think what you want. I’m just offering another perspective.
If you haven’t noticed, I’m fine with people offering different perspectives, as long as they’re not making out that their views are facts and that anyone who disagrees is an idiot…
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:09 AM
Comment #23tads…that is excatly the lemming effect!
….asking someone to get behind the team and manager unquestionably is the exact definition of the lemming effect.
The lemming effect:
“a metaphor for people who go along unquestioningly with a group with potentially dangerous consequences.”
The “Lemming Effect” is an innate psychological phenomenon, a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people.
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:10 AM
Comment #24TDS
Spot on mate
Enjoy the game today, if the weathers good highly recommend a pub called the old ship
Not really a typical match day boozer but great place for a couple of jars, terrace garden out on the river, bout just over a mile from the ground, great place!
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:11 AM
Comment #25Who said anything about unquestionable support?
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:11 AM
Comment #26tds…no worry mate 😉 I don’t act like that all. There is room for everyone here as long as we behave civil to one and another!
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:14 AM
Comment #27tads…well I have asked to get behind the team and manager! Just like that – there is really no questions asked there!
…I don’t know where you are going with your comment at # 12 and on?
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:15 AM
Comment #28*was asked
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:22 AM
Comment #29Jesper
I haven’t asked you to get behind anyone mate
I said that you can’t separate the manager from the team, he picks the team, sets the tactics, trains with them day in day out, he’s part of the squad
At no point have i said you have to support them unquestioned or even back them
Come 3 o’clock I’ll be cheering on NUFC because it’s my choice, haven’t told you to do the same at all
toon kk
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:23 AM
Comment #30What happened with Pards has happened, now we have to move on.
our biggest problem is only having one goal scorer at the club who’s on loan and now he’s injured. We will struggle to score to he’s back.
firebug666
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM
Comment #31If I may put in my two penneth, I have no love for Alan Pardrew, and think we could do a lot better. However a lot better is not waiting in the wings ready to step out onto the stage. Under our present regime new managers may baulk at the very idea of coming to Newcastle. That said, AP is very much a part of the team, he is the man who will choose the 11 players who will take to the field, he is the man who will choose the formation and tactics for the game and then the substitutes to be made, so he is very much part of Newcastle. I may not agree with his choices at times (most of the time) but we have to accept he is here for the long term and how we deal with that is up to us.
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:25 AM
Comment #32tads…where that may be true that has no bearing on my support to Newcastle!
..a manager come and go that is the nature of life.
I react to the impact this is having on the club I support by not following the games and I will not support Pardew when is comes to football. I have no ill will towards him!
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Comment #33firebug…the discussion I had with tds was not about whether Pardew or the tea lady “was part of Newcastle” organizational, but whether you cannot support Newcastle without supporting the owner or the manager!
…I have no problem doing that, but tds and tads does. And that is fine with me.
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:37 AM
Comment #34TADS
Thanks! Meeting some (Fulham supporting) friends at the White Horse in Parsons Green first. Got seats in the Fulham end too you see…
Will have to muffle my support a little today sadly…
toon kk
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:39 AM
Comment #35Alot call for Pards to be sacked but he only works with what Mash is reluctantly getting in.
It wouldn’t matter who was our manager 8th is probably the best we can do with the squad we have.
Trouble is if Remy and Cabaye aren’t replaced we will struggle next season.
Mash likes to save money also a gamble so who knows what next season holds.
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:42 AM
Comment #36Jesper
That was not what I said at all! I can’t speak for TADS but I don’t think he did either!
Some people say they support Newcastle but don’t rate the owner, manager, staff or half the players. I think they act like mackems personally but they still claim to support Newcastle.
I think you SHOULD support Pardew because he is our manager and he’s doing his best for the club, just as you should support Shola or Saylor because they represent our club too.
I think fans have every right to question decisions made by those representing our club and also the commitment they have, but I’d prefer to make those views clear at the appropriate time.
I say get behind the whole team until the end of the season and then decisions can be made on how to move forward. Chances are that Pardew will be our manager next season so are you still going to battle against the tide?
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Comment #37TDS
Don’t worry about disguising it too much, well outside the ground anyway, there a sound bunch the Fulham fans, always a great away day
toonarmydownsouth
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:44 AM
Comment #38Jesper
That really isn’t what was said in any way shape or form
jesperfuglsang - captain of the lemon crew
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:50 AM
Comment #39but tds/tads…then why did you react to by stance?
ToonDarnSarf
Mar 15, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Comment #40Jesper
Because you said you didn’t want him as our manager. I don’t understand that unless you’ve got a very specific reason for thinking it any more than I understand people who don’t want Remy, Saylor, Cisse or Colo to represent our club.