BottledDog

Shit news. Be grand to think Cisse might finally get his head together.

Just how much of a debt has he racked up for Asley to 'have something over' him and force him to do his bidding? SanToon suggests 'several thousand pounds', but considering he's flush enough to drop £160,000 in a week just to get to nuzzle a Tiger, I suspect you might think it's more than that. How do you know that he is paying from his own pocket..? Wouldn't be at all surprised if Ashley was paying these fines by giving Pardew a 'bonus'....esp likely in the case of the 60,000. I don't. In my humble opinion you'd have to be a complete loon to actually believe what your saying there though.

Used to live right on the Gosforth side of the moor and could see from upstairs or the bottom of the garden the stadium poking up beyond the trees a couple of miles away. Down right magical on sunny/misty days.

I might thinking of that other on hired at the same time, in dispute with Wise recently, he was definitely a cunt. Jimenez. Cunt.

Perfectly summed up.

Just how much of a debt has he racked up for Asley to 'have something over' him and force him to do his bidding? SanToon suggests 'several thousand pounds', but considering he's flush enough to drop £160,000 in a week just to get to nuzzle a Tiger, I suspect you might think it's more than that.

Employing someone he has got to know? Not ridiculous. Employing a manager because he might want to recoup several thousand pounds worth of debt and Pardews managerial ability has no bearing on the decision? Sorry, yes that is indeed an utterly ludicrous suggestion. f*** off man. So what was the Kinnear appointment? Pray tell? Based on his managerial ability was it? His nous? Take your head for a walk man, your condescending s*** is extremely annoying. I hadn't realised Ashely made all his decisions based on the ability of the employee. Good to know No, it was clearly based on some drinking game. f*** me man. Give your own head a shake. Right so the Kinnear one was done in a pub, but when it's pardew it's all about the managerial ability. Escpeially with the record he had before us total and utter shit. Laughable Er, no, that was sarcasm regarding Kinnear. Of course there is more to his appointment than them having the odd drink together. Ashley clearly prioritises people he knows (to some extent over their actual qualifications for the role), and I said as much in my first reply to you. I just asked Sean to explain was why it was obvious Pardew was hired due to a gambling debt. Nothing more. Not sure why that got your knickers in a twist, but it would still be nice to hear some logic behind it.

Employing someone he has got to know? Not ridiculous. Employing a manager because he might want to recoup several thousand pounds worth of debt and Pardews managerial ability has no bearing on the decision? Sorry, yes that is indeed an utterly ludicrous suggestion. fuck off man. So what was the Kinnear appointment? Pray tell? Based on his managerial ability was it? His nous? Take your head for a walk man, your condescending shit is extremely annoying. I hadn't realised Ashely made all his decisions based on the ability of the employee. Good to know No, it was clearly based on some drinking game. Fuck me man. Give your own head a shake.

Employing someone he has got to know? Not ridiculous. Employing a manager because he might want to recoup several thousand pounds worth of debt and Pardews managerial ability has no bearing on the decision? Sorry, yes that is indeed an utterly ludicrous suggestion.

Care to paint us a picture of how this scenario may have played out?

Think that's a no-brainer TBH, question is would you take relegation. Not that I think it's actually a choice to make, but that's the argument if you believe in prioritising the league. What! To spend a season watching games knowing whatever happens you end up 17th, but get a chance for a day out at Wembley every other year in a staged semi/final where we'll most likely be embarrassed by a team actually used to winning a few games over the preceding months? That's a no-brainer? That sir... sounds like hell.

Give credit to the FA for a rare sensible outcome and it turns out not to be them making it. Awesome. Look forward to the retrial sheduled for 2018.

Sensible result.

What's to struggle with? I recognise he needs to be punished for his stupidity, but think anything over 8 games is complete overkill. 5 sounds about right with a fine, especially if it's a full stadium ban.

He'll hopefully be a better manager for the change of perspective. 5 (stadium) to 8 (touchline) games strikes me as reasonable.

And so it begins. The uncross-able lines have been drawn. /plus bonus grammar Nazi opportunity.

Worse? Ok, he's managed like 4 months in the top tier football and I can say I'd rather have him here than Pardew who has been managing for the past decade without success. To say Pardew has been managing for the past decade without any success is a bit of liberty.

"I have watched from Canada with bemusement the hand-wringing over Alan Pardew's Glasgow handshake. No matter what the hacks at Big Paper claim, Meyler did not 'brush past' Pardew, but pushed him. If this were an ice hockey game, Pardew's response would be considered mandatory. As we raised his name on a banner to the rafters, he would be quickly making a line change [it's a substitution - Fiver Ed] to put a gentleman, defined as the 'enforcer', on the ice to further explain to Mr Meyler that the next time he should find a more polite way to approach the head coach. Ahhhh … finally got that off my chest. Howay the Lads. Hats off to you, Pards" - Allan Barless.

Pfft. Still see bot all wrong with the reply. The only part of this that is pathetic is the Chronicle and anyone else making hay out of it.

"I have to advise that Mike Ashley must politely decline your invitation, and I would kindly ask that all future correspondence be directed to me here." Aye, blunt as fuck that from Charnley. Bordering on verbal gbh. What a ridiculous story.

Very tempted to pop down the Green Market and see if there's been a version released for my C64.

Interesting. "At an FA hearing he was fined £350 and handed a four-match suspension." Right so. So since Pards has previous, if they don't get all Billy big bollocks a fair outcome should be that they bump it up to 6 match ban and a few grand fine.

You actually mean prior to the match Carver changing team after Pardew's picked and trained with it during the week? If so, that would never happen. If you mean during the game, of course he can, he'll be in charge. I kind of assumed Pardew would be down the pub watching some dodgy foreign satellite stream with his iphone strapped to his 'shell like', barking orders out through a pitch side loudspeaker. Is this wrong? Does a stadium ban mean no communication whatsoever?

While I was seriously pissed at the atmosphere and so many bogging off at the end, I can't say there was any over the top grief coming from around me either (east stand right upper).