It's neck and neck for me. They're both relentless gaslighting gobshites. Bruce is all Ahhh the job isn't easy! Expectations are through the roof, I need more time to get the team organized (that one turns me into Hulk every time, such relentless groundless bullshit. Rafa had this team fucking humming.), etc. He's a cabbage headed sycophant to fucking no one. He's got the job for years if he wins 10 games a season and he knows it. His record is fucking AIDs and he's insulated by the relationships he's cultivated within the media. If he put half as much effort into tactics he'd actually probably be halfway fucking decent.
Pardew was just an odious relentless smarmy greasy villain of a fucking cunt human being, the son of a bitch. Just a nearly fictional combination of everyone you've ever legitimately hated in real life wearing a suit and taking credit while distributing blame. He stole HBA's career, wasted and or ignored what appears to be in retrospect Carr's psychic years and just refused to accept he's fucking useless. Just kept on pushing on like it was science's fault, or the fucking crowd, or the fucking circus or whatever it was that time. Just a fucking con artist.