Re: the argument that we still managed to appoint Carver, McClaren, etc post SP - the point with Pardew is he would always do enough to just keep us treading water. Ultimately we probably do owe the clowns who came between Pardew and Rafa as much as SP for proving how broken the model for the club was, but without SP I've no doubt we'd still have an empty soulless club managed by this fraud, still just existing for the sake of it.