When you read back the posts here 10 years ago re Sir Bobby Robson during his final days as our manager, you would know why people here are that 'harsh', Brett. It was like a karma that we underwent a dark age since Souness until now because the fans here made those disgraceful comments towards Sir Bobby.
Not comparing Pardew and Sir Bobby but some comments here are way too harsh and cunts like. The people will start missing Pardew again a few years later after we hire managers like Souness Roeder Allardyce Houghton etc. And certainly they would say as a big club we deserves a manager a lot better than we currently have, ignoring the fact that during the last 20 years the only big name managers with successful record before joining us were Sir Bobby and Dalglish. I actually doubt whether Sir Bobby would join us if he isn't a Geordie as well.