Newcastle United

[Liverpool]

Dont think theres much in that story, sounds worse than it is.

Newcastle however how jammy are they to be in the position they are with Ashley, Pardew, Shearer, Dennis Wise, Joe Kinnear twice, relegation

[meffin]

"Woman breaks rules and is fairly punished" is basically a summary of that.

[Gibbo]

Apparently Vince McMahon (of wrestling fame) is looking to buy Newcastle!

[bradsdad]

Apparently Vince McMahon (of wrestling fame) is looking to buy Newcastle!

HaHa that would be great cos if Newcastle were losing The Shield could come down and distract the referee

[bradsdad]

Must watch Raw tonight to hear Vince Mcmahon tell Alan Pardew "your ass is fired"

[john316]

He's been linked with them in the past. Can just imagine Pardew getting a chair shot whilst getting interviewed by Sky in the tunnel. Mass beatdown by the Authority

[Jaymo]

Apparently Vince McMahon (of wrestling fame) is looking to buy Newcastle!

Willie Donachie might get his job back

[RichC]

[ChesterDave]

Holy Jesusing Hell

[Sarb]

This would be funny if it actually happened

[Chazza]

[ame]https://twitter.com/BBCSporf/status/440069897172049921[/ame]

[Shaggy]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/alan-pardew-headbutt-newcastle-not-3203713

Alan Pardew staying at Newcastle shames the memory of this once-great club - what would Sir Bobby say?

Mar 03, 2014 20:307

Ten years ago, Sir Bobby Robson was in charge of Newcastle - and now there couldn't be a greater contrast with their current boss, says Dave Kidd

It is the mantra of every radio phone-in halfwit that a manager must, above all, “show passion”.

Well, 10 years ago, Newcastle United employed that most passionate of all football men, Sir Bobby Robson.

To attend one of his post-match briefings was one of the truest privileges my profession could offer. A great man still talking about football with *child-like enthusiasm after a lifetime in the game.

Yet somehow you couldn’t have imagined Sir Bobby sticking the nut on an opposition player.

There was plenty wrong with Newcastle’s previous board, under Freddy Shepherd, but while Sir Bobby was in position, the club boasted one of world football’s greatest statesmen as its figurehead.

The man oozed class. He understood the Geordie nation, sure, but he also understood the importance of football to the working man, the world over.

Sir Bobby Robson loved *football. Newcastle’s current manager, Alan Pardew, appears to love only himself.

And when Pardew head-butted Hull’s David Meyler on Saturday, you could have seen it coming a mile off. Firstly because even some sensible people have swallowed the nonsense that theatrics in the technical area represent *necessary “passion”.

And secondly because, under Mike Ashley’s stewardship, Newcastle United has become a rogue football club.

Pardew had just been sacked by a third division club when Ashley appointed him to succeed the dignified, *promotion-winning Chris Hughton. So he is Ashley’s man.

He stands for the regime which twice appointed the potty-mouthed clown Joe Kinnear to positions of authority, which renamed St James’ Park after Ashley’s chain of *plimsoll shops, agreed a sponsorship deal with the pay-day loan company Wonga, banned the North East’s well-respected regional newspapers and refused to sack Joey Barton after he was jailed for a violent assault.

Little surprise Barton is just about the only man in football seeking to defend Pardew. So why sack Pardew now? It’s not as if Newcastle’s great cathedral on the hill has enjoyed the moral high ground for years.

Many Londoners felt the Toon Army were being rather *parochial when they protested against their club’s ‘Cockney Mafia’. Yet how right they have been proved. And Pardew has proved himself little better than the thug who punched a police horse after defeat by Sunderland.

At least the horse-puncher could cite drunkenness and a derby thrashing. Pardew was sober, his side 3-1 up in a match of limited importance, when he assaulted Meyler. But let’s not be too harsh on him as he has ‘anger management issues’, according to English people who have started talking like Americans.

In Bobby Robson’s day you wouldn’t have heard of ‘anger management issues’. You may, however, have been told about good manners.

And Pardew’s chief problem appears to be he has none. From his West Ham days, comes an extraordinary anecdote *courtesy of club *photographer Steve Bacon, one of several staff to dine with Pardew in a hotel before a game at Sunderland.

“When the gaffer sat down with his backroom team, deciding on his order, he asked fitness coach Tony Strudwick what he was getting – and told him he’d take it if it looked good.

“When the meals arrived, Pards said to Tony, ‘Yours looks better, I’m having that,’ and swapped plates.

“I told him you can’t just take someone else’s dinner. Pards retorted, ‘When you’re the king, you can do anything’.”

And while the shoving of a linesman, the abuse of Manchester City’s Manuel Pellegrini and touchline bust-ups with Martin O’Neill and Arsene Wenger say much for Pardew’s character, the *Strudwick incident is somehow more revelatory still. Have you ever heard of anything so ill-mannered?

When Pardew loses his head, he usually attempts post-match contrition. Yet at Hull, even this was half-hearted. ‘It wasn’t a head-butt, honestly officer, I was pushing him away with my head’.

And Pardew’ plan to avoid future flashpoints? He will sit down and leave the touchline ranting to assistant manager John Carver, rarely mistaken for Boutros Boutros-Ghali himself.

The FA will surely impose a stadium ban and strike Pardew off the extremely short list of Englishmen with the potential to manage England.

Ashley, a true price-of-everything-value-of-nothing-man, merely fined Pardew a hundred grand and slapped his wrist.

That Pardew remains manager brings shame on a once-great club. Yet it will surprise no one with even the faintest knowledge of Ashley’s classless regime.

[Fredo]

He's a total ****.

[Fivex]

Damning writeup. Ouch

[Fosterbloke]

Cock.