It makes him a poor NUFC manager, though. Piss-poor, actually.
Pardew, on the other hand, is clearly a pretty good NUFC manager. He's got to grips with the situation at the club and, working within tighter limits than most of the clubs around us in the table, has been wringing out results, assembling the beginnings of a pretty tasty squad, and even had us playing some half-decent football at times. The Stoke game has recently been mentioned once or twice on this thread as an example of us playing "hoofball". Me, I thought it was an object lesson in how to beat that lot at their own game, in their own gaff. I really enjoyed it.
Anyway, Allardyce. Poor NUFC manager. Proven to be such. Fuck knows why we're comparing him to Pardew, who has exceeded absolutely everyone's expectations.