You've got your priorities wrong, Ashley needs to piss off but he doesn't pick the team, train them, give them tactics or motivate them, neither does Pardew actually.
That's the last thing they should be hoping for and the least likely thing that will happen. The f***er doesn't even have to finish top ten now that Ashley has given him a cast iron excuse in selling and not replacing cabs.
It was a sign that people are turning against him and was the only plus point from today so I'll take it.
'Need to go back to basics'
f*** off Alan.
What does that even mean? Back to trying not to get beat - have we ever done anything else?
It's a ready made excuse to be negative again. To pack 2 banks of 4 into our own half so as not to concede.
Just f*** off.
It means one of two things, he was struggling to find something to say or hoof.
The players will be suitably shitting themselves by now. We'll have spent the week making sure we try and keep them out as much as possible.
After his comments about the trouble last season I think he'll get a win today.