Mick

The most important measurable result that points to less effort in the cups is the one that counts, the actual result.

Worst case is he gets off with it.

Call him shit, it'll make no difference to your life but it's accurate.

I'm a bit surprised that Rob Lee hasn't got into management, he seemed to be level headed and would probably do a decent job for somebody. I'd rather see him than Carver on our bench and I'll not go into Woodman, even if he is just the keeper coach.

OK, I thought you had something you were keeping quiet about, my mistake.

He clearly has no passion for us or football in general, why is he making a big deal out of a manager rubbing his head against a player? Pathetic from him, he should be embarrassed for himself.

Thank you kind sir....just a pity I can't say something else... You're going to have to say it now, what can't you say?

I haven't seen this posted. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/sport-opinion/rob-lee-alan-pardew-lucky-6783304 Rob Lee: Alan Pardew is a lucky man to still be in a job – he received the minimum fine 7 Mar 2014 07:33 I have seen managers threaten to hit someone, but nobody ever actually did it, says Chronicle columnist Rob Lee A fine of £100,000 and a final warning from the big boss. That is the very minimum Alan Pardew should have expected last Saturday evening. If anything, the man got off lightly. He’s kidding himself to think otherwise. He so easily could have been sacked. He is undoubtedly an incredibly lucky man to still be in his job. I know a lot of people have said since Saturday, “I’ve never seen anything like that.” I would like to add my name to that number. I’ve seen managers throw things and make some serious threats in a dressing room. They don’t tend to go through with them. I have been thinking about this. I honestly can’t remember any manager actually grabbing hold of a player. Managers back in the day, when things were different, could turn the air blue with their language. They could talk of hitting someone in the middle of a massive argument, but they have all managed to reign themselves back in before things got silly. Kevn Keegan could be like that. I saw him really lose it once or twice. But he never crossed a line. Pardew crossed a line. I’ve seen some try to defend him. Do me a favour. David Meyler was trying to get the ball. His team were 3-1 down, so it’s only natural he wanted to take a throw-in quickly. Pardew got in his way. All Meyler did was give him a small push. Nothing more than a nudge. Big deal. It was easy for him to walk away. But he didn’t. And then the manager of Newcastle United pushed the Hull City player away with his head. That’s a headbutt, isn’t it? I received a text on Saturday afternoon, I was out at the time, from a pal who asked if I knew what had happened. He then told me. I couldn’t believe it. Like everyone, I watched Match of the Day on Saturday night so I could judge for myself what had and had not happened. That’s when I heard about the fine and I admit to being a bit shocked the club acted so quickly. Pardew got off lightly. He is a football manager. He’s not expected to get involved with opposition players. Ever. Billy Davies got a five-match touchline ban for swearing at a referee, something that happens all the time. It shouldn’t, it’s not nice, but it’s hardly a major incident. So Pardew can expect to be given possibly the biggest sentence ever handed down to a Premier League manager. Why does he do this? I honestly don’t know. He is always getting himself involved. Does he think this makes him appear more passionate because it doesn’t. I go back to Keegan. He was the most passionate man I ever met in football. He couldn’t hide a single emotion. He knew how to behave himself, right enough, and he was a volatile guy. Pardew now has a problem whenit comes to controlling the dressing room. How can he have a go at a player for fighting with a team-mate in training. What chance does he have of fining someone for a daft red card? They will turn around, look at their manager and say with some justification, “Why should you give me into bother after how you behaved?” So he now has to win back the dressing room. I don’t know what the players have been thinking about it all. When you are the manager of Newcastle United, you have to respect the club and other people in football. Pardew has fallen short of that a few times. What he did last Saturday was unacceptable. We are trying to make football better and that didn’t help.

Spot on basically. Obviously a manager should know better, but then so should a player. Usually head-on-head aggro is ignored unless someone raises a hand or one party hurls themselves to the floor dramatically. Bollocks is it spot on, we'll never get more passionate managers than Keegan and Sir Bobby, neither got involved in the shit that Pardew does. What happens in other sports is again total bollocks, people die in boxing, does that mean people getting killed in football is acceptable? Does is shite. Pardew has acted like a twat and deserves everything coming at him. I'll also be happy to see the same punishment dished out to players. Why should anybody be allowed to bring shame on our club? More importantly, why are so called fans defending the first manager in Premiership football to stick his head on an opposition player and drag the name of our club through mud?

Let's bring violence into football because it happens in other sports, Muppets.

It's no surprise Pardew is a massive c***. The fact he slept with his captain's wife says it all. It's a man with no integrity, no shame, no nothing. He's soulless and above all that for us fans, he's a terrible manager. I mean being a nice, humble person comes a long way and I'd respect him more if he took responsibility for his action once in his career here. He's no man, he's the definition of coward, and the sooner he's gone the better. I didn't rate Hughton as highly as some people did but I had masses of respect for the bloke because of the way that he handled himself and was sorry to see him go in the end.

Nah, no way. You're right, I've always defended him as have others. I recognise that he has faults but they are massively outnumbered by positives.

Barrett is claiming that he was heavily fined and banned for throwing punches which didn't connect so how can you claim that actually connecting with a head wouldn't bring a greater penalty? One of our fans was rightly jailed for punching a horse without injuring it, I'm not even sure if the punch connected. Taking that further and expecting somebody who nutted another person might go to prison isn't that far fetched.

I'll not nut somebody so I don't expect to find out what would happen to me but if I was daft enough I think I would think that time in prison was a possibility. I've been following football long enough to know that actions of one person, even "something as momentary and harmless as Pardew on Meyler" can lead to far greater problems in the crowd, luckily we've moved on from those times and luckily the headbutting incident was contained.

Good idea, let's fine one person a few years wages to bring him in line with somebody who will earn his fine in a matter of weeks. Exactly as you have highlighted, they can`t be treated the same because they are not. One is a member of public that goes to the stadium for fun, so he lost that right for being a t***. One goes to the stadium to work and do a job, so he lost his wages for being a t***. That's a load of bollocks, was Pardew not equally being a twat?

Why should somebody who works in football fall into an exception? If I nutted somebody and went to prison I'd lose my job, why should it be different for somebody in football? Somebody who is more likely to be looked upon as a role model than I am.

Good idea, let's fine one person a few years wages to bring him in line with somebody who will earn his fine in a matter of weeks.

The longer the ban the better for me as I don't want to watch anybody, player or manager sticking a head on anybody else. The greater the punishment, the less likely we are to see it again. Whether some think it was handbags is irrelevant, the name of our club has been dragged through the mud again by an employee and nobody should view that as being acceptable. The fact that I would love to see the back of Pardew doesn't even come into it.

That should be your avatar.

I hope the prick gets banned for life, not that it will happen.

Good.

Almost certainly time in prison, the prick who punched the horse did time and he didn't appear to do any damage.

I was gutted that we hadn't won and had played shite, at least they played reasonably well, they still lost.