Some of the Pardew histeria on this board is unbelieveable. Its bloody obvious and has been for the entirety of his time here that Ashley is not a good chairman either as a fan, a player or a manager. Pardew was an average manager for us, we could have had a lot better, but how many games have we won since he left? Losing Pardew was never going to do anything to fix the problems with this club, so I really can't understand the level of hatred he receives. When I think about some of the other dross we've had in our time (Souness, Allardyce, Kinnear) he doesn't even compare to those assholes.