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One up top! He wants his pay-off! http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-set-stick-same-7867160

Quality that. Our fans were superb on Monday too about him. The Jonas song was about 25 minutes non-stop 2nd half plus we couldn't get served after a while singing it pre-match in a few bars in Congleton!

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/alan-pardew-running-out-journalists-7859476 Alan Pardew is running out of time at Newcastle United and running out of space to manoeuvre when it comes to addressing the public. There was an almost comical situation when the Chronicle asked the question whether he felt he could genuinely come back from another Premier League defeat. Pardew quickly turned to his communications chief Wendy Taylor, who batted the question away saying: “No questions from NCJ sorry” only for the manager then to turn to another banned title in the Daily Telegraph and quickly realise - in the presence of some of London’s frontline press men - that he could look a bit silly if he continued to pick and choose who to answer. After the press conference leading national writer Henry Winter tweeted: “Pathetic. “Local papers vital for a club, they arefamily.” For the second time in five months the Stoke City tea lady was left open-mouthed in the friendly old Potteries. It was a bizzare night in Stoke and as assembled hacks tried to hit deadlines it almost felt a little surreal as a touring American, who had been to the Ryder Cup, protested loudly to Potters staff about the lack of free beer in the media room - we weren’t in the media-friendly environment of the United States! Pardew knows fine well who each journalist is though. Shortly after being appointed he asked his press office to compile a dossier of each journalist so he could put names to faces. At the start of last season he also invited the North East press pack out for lunch on the Quayside to discuss his hopes and aims for the 2012/13 season and build up some rapport with journalists. There is nothing wrong with that, of course. In the United States sports coaches regularly spend time with journalists as they try to get the message out. In fact, in the MLS the dressing room doors are open around 20 minutes after the game and media men are given access to speak to who they want as well as one-on-ones with the manager. The Premier League try to encourage mixed zones but they can do little to stop press bans. Newcastle are a million miles away from the MLS and way behind their Premier League counterparts. Last season, one opposing Premier League Press officer said: “They are very touchy your lot aren’t they!” Once a siege mentality kicks in at a football club almost anything becomes believable. That said, Pardew has been irked by a lot of what has been written in the past few weeks. After the 2-2 draw with Hull City he said: “I am going to pick out Robbie Savage this week” after the ex-Welsh international and BBC pundit said he sounded like a broken man. Savage, who spoke after the 4-0 loss to Southampton, said: “I stand by what I said about Pardew after Newcastle’s 4-0 defeat by Southampton - I did not say he was a broken man, I said he sounded like one. “He did sound dejected, although I have never been in the situation he was in, coming out to face the media after a game where his players have not performed. It must be very difficult.” Pardew has not just been annoyed by what Savage has said recently. He has also taken issue with things Chronicle columnist Rob Lee and Journal columnist Don Hutchison have said in the past. One of his main gripes has been the suggestion he is sitting and waiting to be sacked. Pardew was offended by talk he was simply standing by for compensation but at the moment he would be advised to focus on winning football matches rather than rounding up who is saying negatives about him. Nobody likes being criticised but when you are the bloke in charge of the team whch has banked 19 points from a possible 81 since Boxing Day it is always going to come your way. Newcastle are notstruggling because they are unlucky. They are struggling because the manager cannot figure out a game plan to win Premier League matches and opposing bosses are easily working out how to turn the Magpies over. Regardless of comments from pundits and journalists or whether they are on point or not - the league table does not lie. Pardew has had more than enough time to make this team his own.

Wants to leave - quotes in The Sun apparently

http://babb.telegraph.co.uk/2014/09/37-reasons-why-newcastle-should-not-sack-alan-pardew/?ath=

2014 league record P 25 W 5 D 4 L 16 F 19 A 47 GD -28

http://www.football365.com/faves/9496190/F365-Says Football Making A Fool Of The Business Genius By all accounts, Mike Ashley has a Midas touch when it comes to the huge success of his Sports Direct empire. But football often doesn't have time for business sense... Last Updated: 30/09/14 at 10:17 Post Comment • • Latest Articles Time For Van Gaal's Tactical Nous To Prevail Post comment Injuries have afforded Louis van Gaal an excuse for Man United's slow start but, with a number of players expected to return against Everton, the manager needs a big performance... How Much In 'Pounds Raheem Sterling'? Post comment A whole lot of you use footballers' names in everyday life. And you hate yourselves for it. As you should. We also have mails on Newcastle, Rooney and more... All Articles Mike Ashley is one of the smartest and most successful businessmen in Britain. When we talk about billionaire owners we tend to have in mind foreigners - Russians, Arabs, Malaysians - but Ashley owns 58% of Sports Direct, which has a market capitalisation of £3.8bn. Even critics call him a retail genius. He is controversial - a short-term investment Sports Direct is making in Tesco has attracted criticism, while earlier this year shareholders voted against a bonus scheme whose terms meant he could not use his otherwise controlling stake. But he is undeniably possessed of a Midas touch when it comes to sporting goods, building one of the country's largest retailers and a personal fortune that makes the mind boggle. He got over the nixing of that bonus scheme by turning two million pounds' worth of shares into cash. And yet, Newcastle United. With the side off the bottom only on goals scored, after two troubling seasons since finishing fifth in 2012, it is no wonder that supporters want his head. Whether or not Stoke fans were right to join in and sing that Alan Pardew is getting sacked in the morning - it might be the afternoon, or the axe may not fall at all just yet - the Newcastle owner has a decision to make. And it is quite possible that the retail genius will make the wrong one. What is especially remarkable is the ability of too many who have passed through St James' Park to create crises out of nothing. This summer's transfer business was sufficiently promising that the odds on Pardew being the first manager out of his job doubled across the course of July. But the failure to reintegrate Hatem Ben Arfa, sending him to Hull instead, left the club short of creativity and opened up a fresh front in the war between the supporters and the club that has been going on at least since Kevin Keegan's second resignation. Bringing in Joe Kinnear once was bizarre enough, likewise Dennis Wise. Yet Kinnear, who went down worse than Alex Salmond at the Tory conference the first time around, was hired for a repeat performance. Then Pardew - having won his battle over Kinnear and got away with celebrating via a headbutt - has contrived to throw it all away. Ashley himself put both feet in his mouth with his joke about the manager being sacked if he lost at Stoke, but the blunder was entirely in character. The naming rights fiasco, the treatment of Alan Shearer, the whole cockney mafia thing - even the high point of the Ashley era, the fifth-place finish of 2012, was turned into a curse by the hasty award of an eight-year contract for Pardew a few months later. Whatever the terms of that deal, whatever the get-out clause, it was a ridiculous act. And yet, Sports Direct. God knows how it will all work out for Pardew in the next few hours and days, all we can know for certain is that whatever happens Newcastle will be back in bad ordure in remarkably short order. It's what they do, it's what Ashley does. But at least, if you search hard enough for a moral here, you can see one important truth. If football were just a business then the business genius would be good at it. Instead, such is the complexity and paradoxical hold of the game that even the billionaire is never far from his next blunder. Philip Cornwall

I'm there today - Heed Army!

There it is!

Faustino Asprilla’s latest business venture: guava-flavoured condoms • Production of condoms underway in China • ‘Guava is very good for romancing,’ says Asprilla • The Joy of Six: post-Christmas purchases theguardian.com, Thursday 25 September 2014 11.29 BST Faustino Asprilla has confirmed he will be launching a line of condoms in Colombia. The former Parma and Newcastle striker has revealed that production of his own line of condoms is already underway in China. The condoms, planned to be on sale in Colombia initially, will be sold under the brand name “Tino”. Asprilla, speaking to the Colombian radio show La FM, expressed his enthusiasm for his new business venture. “I think it’s a really cool idea, “ he said. “They’ll hopefully be launched with a campaign to prevent unplanned teenage pregnancies.” The condoms will come in all sizes and in a variety of flavours. “I’ll recommend the guava flavour condom,” Asprilla added. “When I was growing up, we had a guava tree in our garden and that’s a flavour and aroma that’s very good for romancing.” El Tino, who turned down a lucrative offer by an Italian porn company to star in one of their films last year , maintained that the main intention behind the condom brand is to encourage “healthy sexual habits”. Asprilla has maintained a busy business profile since retiring from professional football in 2009. He has been working setting up an academy in his home country of Colombia, with links to Newcastle, as well as building a portfolio of real estate farming land.

Voted MOM last night by most sites and for the third time this season by some of the several well-respected football journalists - well done Colo (Good morning Ronaldo! )

@henrywinter: Coloccini man of the match for #nufc, real leadership, but Adam Armstrong also impressive. Played as a 10, got touch, energy, real potential

Man City away!

Majestic by Colo that!

No game until next Monday so nice to see us really going for it! Fuck off Pardew!

http://sackpardew.com/quotes/pardviews/ Some gems in there!

And he admitted that life had been made “difficult” by fan protests, social media and the wider Press of late. In an interview with BBC Newcastle he said: “It’s difficult for us. “We are trying to create an atmosphere in a stadium. “It’s difficult for my media staff. “It’s difficult for me. “We don’t quite know what to say. “And there has been some reporting that quite frankly has been outrageous really. “But we accepted all of that. “After the performance at Southampton I said to the players there’s no point in whinging about it, people’s comments or whatever they want to do, because we didn’t deliver. “For this football club that performance wasn’t right,” And he also stated that despite talk of him resigning or waiting for the payout that would release him from his five year contract, he was never considering quitting at Southampton after the 4-0 loss. He said: “I was never, never, never going to walk out of the club on the back of that performance. “I’m proud of being manager here. “I don’t have an arrogance or an ego about me that I am going to sit it out and waiting for whatever.”

Gateshead XI are playing Hull reserves tomorrow so he might play in that!

Tremendous start for him!

Ha ha ha! Are people genuinely blaming Colo for their goals yesterday?! Fuck me!

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/comment-alan-pardew-is-just-a-stooge-for-mike-ashley-who-runs-newcastle-like-his-shops--cheap-foreign-imports-and-a-tame-manager-9745370.html

Lovely jublee! Great night in Town! http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/09/20/etynahub.jpg

I'm being f***ing stupid but I'd love it if KK was involved. He did personally say to me that there are many people out there in the background who want to oust Ashley, but its just not that easy to remove a billionaire, that in time we will get our club back, however. Is this the beginning? I hope so. I might have a wank now that you've mentioned this mate! We can dream! This club was made for him and vice versa!

The whole thing has been absolutely fantastic! As I've said previously, well done to whoever is behind it! Mind, I'm convinced it's Mike Ashley!

Spot on. He's fell out with Pardew several times so I'm certain that he isn't a fan of that charlatan's either! His leadership was the exact same when we finished 5th as in that he's not an in-your-bracket screamer so it seems harsh how he's now getting vilified for basically being as he always has been. Sad to see the abuse he's getting as he's been a great servant for us. I've been staying off here whilst the website does it's thing but I had to respond to this. f*** off. He's had it tough has colo? And did you really just trot out his leadership was the same in the 5th season? The exact same clueless argument by the nationals that we finished fifth once so pardew shouldn't be sacked. Just because he ALLEGEDLY knocked up some young hairdresser gives him no excuse to play as poorly as he has. He gets away with it because when he can be arsed he's easily our best defender and we have no-one else. Oh he's fell out with pardew has he? He tell you that himself did he? No you heard it probably from lee ryder. Colo is the most gutless captain we've had in a long while. This 'rallying call' bollox is not in one way anything he's said. Bet you believed JFK used to write his statements and programme notes? If you were at Southampton you would see exactly what I'm talking about Stick to the Jersey Shore "Paully" Fancy a shag?