I think I've said it before, but there's always been a sneaking suspicion that the decision to give Pardew free reign of managing our squad was a kind of Shutter Island-esque experiment concocted to try and break a deeply insane man of his insanity, to allow him one last hurrah so it may be, and perhaps that is what we're missing from behind the scenes, the final twist in this story.
Perhaps Pardew is a victim, in which case we're to answer a moral question, is it worth trying to save one man at the expense of the enjoyment of hundreds of thousands of others? Or do we just lobotomise him and be done with it? I'm up for lobotomising him like, or shooting him, I don't really care any more. I'd probably acid bath him.