It's very easy to make empty platitudes though even if you have the skill to back it up. Pardew makes all the right noises about living being here and understanding us and ultimately it means nothing.
I'd sooner base candidates on acumen and achievement than unquantifiable notions of passion and understanding. They're not mutually exclusive like, but the former is vastly more important than the latter.
People say they've seen worse and tbh I'm too young to know any better, but have other owners ever been this callous/uncaring? I find it hard to fathom.
I don't expect people to be as fervent in their response to our situation as the protest demographic; but to tell fellow fans to shut the fuck up or to sit down out of fear of rocking and already sinking boat is just bizarre and a depressing indictment. Probs not the stock response by everyone but it definitely happens.
Pardew could lose from now until the sun dies and bum the corpse of an infant child in the centre circle at wembley and still end up keeping his job...obertan or not.
Let him have his dog with two dicks moment. He'll look like a massive prick again before long, except we'll likely be relegated. Shame but I'm past caring about relegation tbh.
Why can't he play obertan and cabella if he must? Drop colback and have Tiote there as his 'bite'. Sissokho as the other central player. It seems your only allowed one 'flair' player, if at all and in Pardews mind that's still a massive risk