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Every time I read it, my brain still interprets the thread title as saying there's 50% chance Pardew will not be sacked.

A return to sexy football. #teamcosta

Total Sport are dog shit. They are rank supercilious dog shit. Utter fucking dog shit. Worse than dog shit. Probably worthy of a thread that.

Very much doubt it's the sole reason, but it's certainly a good way to get the manager to sign whatever you want - Ashley pays the debt off, Pardew pays back Ashley with a low-basic contract. If the manager makes you money (positions, transfers), then performance related gains make sense. Has Ashley ever been involved in gambling?(no nufc jokes needed ) You could argue the way he does business, his whole empire has been built on the back of being a gambler.

Very much doubt it's the sole reason, but it's certainly a good way to get the manager to sign whatever you want - Ashley pays the debt off, Pardew pays back Ashley with a low-basic contract. If the manager makes you money (positions, transfers), then performance related gains make sense. To get the Newcastle job, Pardew would have signed whatever you wanted anyway man. No (bullshit) debts required.

Decent. Not great prospects, but hope we get to remember it fondly.

A manager is only as good as the team he's given...

From todays Fiver - THE PARDIOLA WAY The Fiver likes to think that the pilot of the plane taking Newcastle United back from London last night landed about halfway through the journey – around, say, the hamlet of Hole Bottom in North Yorkshire – then alighted from his aircraft and wandered aimlessly around a field for several hours, pausing occasionally to sample berries or tread in cowpat. We also like to think that when a bemused Alan Pardew accosted him to ask just what the hell he was playing at, the pilot, showing a cavalier disregard for the risk of headbuttery, replied: "I tried to give my best, I think I did OK." For that is how Pardew accounted for his team's unscheduled amble around the Emirates last night, after which Newcastle were left with a sixth straight defeat and a 14th loss from their last 19 league matches. "All I can do is get my team in the best possible place," pleaded Pardew as many members of the Toon Army put their tops on in a traditional Geordie display of disgust. "We could have copped harm tonight when we were 2-0 down but we came out with our dignity still there," claimed the manager, whose novel attempt to find a positive in his side's 3-0 defeat showed that Newcastle are not entirely devoid of creativity. Newcastle's two most inventive players this season, meanwhile, were not present, Yohan Cabaye having been sold to Paris Saint-Germain as soon as Mike Ashley was satisfied that mid-table irrelevance had been secured, and Hatem Ben Arfa having been dropped again, seemingly because of an unsatisfactory attitude. If there was one manager in the league who you might think could empathise with a player who's head is in the wrong place, it would be Pardew, but Newcastle's gaffer, like so many before him, seems unable to get the best out of Ben Arfa, who has enough talent to be on a par with Eden Hazard or even Him but has instead become less useful than Adel Taarabt. Many fans want Pardew sacked and a case can certainly be made for that. Some would say his players have been making it for the last four months. But the only thing United about Newcastle at the moment is that everyone at the club bears some of the blame for their ridiculous collapse in the second half of the season, when they went from challenging for a place in Big Cup to jostling for a deckchair by the pool. Mind you, if we're going to point fingers then let's also jab some in the direction of several other clubs: for what does it say about the self-styled "most competitive league in the world" that a team can drift like logs on the Tyne for several months and still wash up in the top half of the table? http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/29/the-fiver-newcastle-alan-pardew

To be fair to him, he says more than Owen ever did.

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Fucks sake Lyubimets.

Not a pleasant one.

Damn it Dummett.

Fuk.

Doing all right. Reckon we could nick this.

Mets has been on the ale again then. He's predicted Sunderland to win 4-0 tomorrow. He's definitely back on something. *cough*

Aye well, when Keegan gets his statue and it's made out of bluetack and shovels, don't come running to me.

The fuck has happened to the art of creating lifelike busts.

It is not the 'pathetic sheeple' that have given up on the dream.

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Nah, what's madness is to laugh off the choice like you just have. This is Martinez' first big job, he's done absolutely nothing wrong so far but it's still only 1 season. Although I think he looks a better manager than Moyes he's hardly proven it yet. In a theoretical debate on who I'd prefer to come in and get the best out of someone like Ben Arfa and give us something ambitious and fun to watch I'd pick Martinez every time. And that is far from being based on one season. Have admired Martinez since he first came to prominence. Great mentality. He may be a good manager, but still have considerably less love for Moyes.

People would take Moyes over Martinez given the choice? Madness!

Sounds plausible.