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FINALLY!

 

Pardew Appointed Manager

 

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(just for Skirge)

 

Newcastle United are delighted to confirm the appointment of Alan Pardew as the club's new manager.

 

Alan, formerly manager at Reading, West Ham, Charlton and Southampton, has signed a five-and-a-half year contract at St. James' Park.

 

Speaking about his new role, Alan said:

 

"I am honoured and privileged to have been given this opportunity at Newcastle United, one of the truly great clubs in English football.

 

"I understand what this club means to its supporters. Throughout the football world people recognise that this is a unique club in many ways, with supporters who are second to none in their loyalty, passion and devotion for the team.

 

"I'm not a Geordie of course, but I'm a football person with a love of the game and I can assure you I bring great drive, desire and commitment to the job.

 

"Chris Hughton did a great job last season, guiding the club back to the Premier League, and he continued that good work this season. It is my aim to build on that now and take this club forward.

 

"I have always managed teams that have played attacking positive football, something I know the supporters here appreciate. At the same time I intend to focus on developing exciting young players through the club's excellent Academy and development squad, and I know the board here at St. James' Park are very committed to that too.

 

"I can't wait to get started and what better way to kick-off than welcoming Liverpool to St. James' Park on Saturday."

 

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20101209/pardew-appointed-manager_2281670_2240106

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Sacked from Motd2? Really? When?   :facepalm:

 

When he said Essien 'raped' a player all game?

 

HAHA Sorry,But that is quite commical...  :lol:

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Just had a look at the training photos with PB. Not so much as a fucking smile in sight.

 

Actually, Best was smiling in one photo, probably knowing he'll get a game due to certain southampton connections anarl

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5086/5240803207_773f3abdb0.jpg

 

The Real Caption: Peter Beardsley shares a joke with the players

 

Look at Ferguson's face! Its like when your dad tells a stupid old man joke in front of your mates. :doh:

 

It's more like when your dad tells a stupid old man joke in front of your mate then keels over and dies in front of you.

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FROM WIMBLEDON TO ST JAMES' PARK - THE ALAN PARDEW STORY...

 

1961: Born July 18 in Wimbledon, London.

 

1987: Signs for Crystal Palace from Yeovil Town and gives up his full-time career as a glazier.

 

1989: Wins promotion with Palace, via the play-offs, to the old first division.

 

1990: Scores the extra-time winner in Palace's 4-3 victory over Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final. Palace go on to draw cup final 3-3 with Man United but lose replay 1-0.

 

1991: Helps Palace to third place in the first division, the club's highest league position.

 

1991: Signs for Charlton on a free transfer.

 

1995: After month on loan at Tottenham, Pardew signs for Barnet and begins his coaching career at Underhill.

 

1998: Moves to Reading with manager Terry Bullivant and takes over the reserve team.

 

1999: Loses his job when Reading scrap their reserve team but returns to the club later in the year as manager following dismissal of Tommy Burns.

 

2000: Reading finish 10th in Division Two.

 

2001: Takes Reading to the play-off final in his first full season in charge but the Royals are beaten 3-2 by Walsall.

 

2002: Reading finish second and win automatic promotion to the first division.

 

2003: Reading finish fourth in the first division but lose to Wolves 3-1 in the play-off semi-final.

 

September 10 - Hands in his resignation after Reading chairman John Madejski refuses West Ham permission to speak to his manager.

 

September 18 - West Ham reach out-of-court settlement with Reading of £380,000 compensation and one month's gardening leave for Pardew.

 

October 18 - Takes over as West Ham's 10th manager.

 

2004: Reaches the play-off final but loses 1-0 to former club Palace.

 

2005: Reaches play-off final again and beats Preston 1-0 with a goal from Bobby Zamora to secure a return to the Premiership.

 

2006: January - Breaks the West Ham transfer record with £7.25million signing of Dean Ashton from Norwich.

 

April 23 - West Ham beat Middlesbrough at Villa Park to reach first FA Cup final in 16 years and qualify for the UEFA Cup.

 

May 7 - Beat Tottenham on final day of the season to secure ninth place.

 

May 13 - Loses the FA Cup final to Liverpool on penalties after Steven Gerrard's equaliser in the last minute of normal time forces a 3-3 draw.

 

August 31 - Agrees to sign Argentina internationals Carlos Teves and Javier Mascherano from Corinthians in a deal brokered by businessman Kia Joorabchian.

 

September 1 - West Ham confirm 'exploratory discussions' over a takeover deal have taken place, thought to be with Joorabchian.

 

September 28 - West Ham lose 3-0 in Palermo and crash out of the UEFA Cup 4-0 on aggregate.

 

October 24 - An eighth straight defeat sees West Ham knocked out of Carling Cup by Chesterfield.

 

November 21 - West Ham board of directors accept Icelandic businessman Eggert Magnusson's £85million takeover bid.

 

December 11 - Sacked after five defeats in six matches.

 

December 24 - Appointed Charlton manager on a three-and-a-half-year contract, with the club 19th in the Premier League.

 

2007: May - Suffers relegation for first time in career.

 

2008: May - Expected promotion challenge fails to materialise as Addicks finish season in 11th.

 

November 22 - Parts company with Charlton by mutual consent after Addicks slip into the Championship drop zone on back of eight-game winless run.

 

2009: July 17 - Appointed Southampton manager on a three-year contract.

 

2010: March 28 - Leads Saints to Johnstone's Paint Trophy glory with 4-1 final win over Carlisle at Wembley - the club's first trophy since 1976.

 

August 30 - Sacked as Southampton manager - just two days after the team's 4-0 win at Bristol Rovers.

 

December 9: Appointed Newcastle manager on a five-and-a-half-year deal.

 

Worth every penny...

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I feel no excitement at all. Pardew is a big reason why fans favorite Hughton was sacked.

 

This.

 

The man has no self-respect ffs. Who would talk about a job when someone else is in charge, thats shit ffs.

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We're on a time limit here. If we don't run him out of town while the rage is still fresh, before the apathy sets in, then we really will end up with him for years. Oh well, at least he might give us a canny paint trophy run.

 

Also bear in mind, seeing as how no-one believes he'll complete the deal, that resigning in terror means no pay out.

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Just back in and quite amazed at the contract length - If you ever thought Ashley didn't have a clue - this is the absolute proof.

 

Just speechless.

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Good piece by .com up.

 

The damned United

 

We don't know Alan Pardew personally and we can't pretend ever to have taken a great interest in his managerial career to date - mediocre in the extreme though it looks, and punctuated by rumour and gossip.

 

By agreeing to become the new Manager of Newcastle United though, he's now tainted and viewed with the utmost suspicion by tens of thousands of supporters.

 

On the face of things that's a fairly shoddy state of affairs, giving further fuel to those who accuse fans of this club as being insular, misguided, in-bred idiots.

 

Pardew though has willingly allied himself to the most inept, improper set of clowns ever to mismanage a football club, arriving amid accusations of Cockney casino cronyism and desperate cries of "not Joe Kinnear" from media pals - slightly less than a ringing endorsement.

 

Were he to be a proven manager with an illustrious history, the bewilderment and annoyance of Hughton's departure would at least be replaced by a sliver of optimism - a 0.1% chance that something positive might come out of another self-created farce.

 

Instead though, Pardew now arrives here with nothing but a long contract. No benefit of the doubt, no honeymoon period, no support in the dressing room and not even any Geordie/adopted Geordie "remember me" credentials.

 

If Chris Hughton was rendered as dead man walking by the lack of support from his employers, then quite what shelf life Pardew will enjoy is open to question. That he doesn't appear to have much credibility to start with doesn't help: a chancer appointed by chancers.

 

And in making the change, Mike Ashley has once again demonstrated the utter contempt that he now holds for the fans that he once sought to buddy up with. At a stroke he's managed to successfully re-ignite the bad feeling on and off the field that resulted in our fall from grace two seasons ago. Is he trying to take us down?

 

The springboard effect that a new manager tends to bring to a club didn't happen here under Shearer and there seems to be even less chance of Pardew and his feel-bad factor pulling it off. If anything, his position seems like a watered-down version of Brian Clough's infamous move to Leeds (watered-down in that he doesn't have any medals to show his new charges).

 

Looking back at our history, there's a sense that Pardew arrives with a brief to impose dressing room order in the same way that messrs McGarry and Smith did, following the inclusive stewardship of Dickie Dinnis and Willie McFaul. This time however, the outward appearance is more of an iron fist in a glove puppet.

 

In the absence of information, the void is once again filled by a welter of opinions and theories. Rather than briefing pliant pressmen though, why doesn't Ashley have the balls to come out just once and explain himself; giving just a veneer of accountability to the emotional hostages that compose his public?

 

But please, don't send Del boy out to embarrass himself further with his half-baked nonsense. You'd have more credibility if you appointed Gazza as spokesman.

 

Start off by outlining exactly what "experience" Alan Pardew has that Hughton lacked: winning tin pot trophies, being sacked by clubs in each of the top three divisions, or appearing in the High Court? Or perhaps it was more the "experience" of moving in similar social circles...

 

And once you've tried to justify the appointment you've just made, move on to explain why his predecessor was jettisoned, after having somehow managed create an air of respectability around a club that had none. Hughton got Manager of the Month a few times here - the Nobel Peace Prize might have been a more fitting reward.

 

If senior players were allowed to do as they pleased at the club and Hughton couldn't control them, tell us.

 

If Hughton refused to sanction the sale of players or differed with the contract, tell us.

 

If the downturn in attendances and corporate business is being laid at Hughton's door, tell us.

 

Of course none of this will happen, despite whatever level of protests follow over the coming days and weeks - which will inevitably overshadow events on the field and supply a ready-made excuse for the dropping of points and the submitting of transfer requests.

 

The emotions invoked by the loss of Kevin Keegan soon disappeared though, along with noble intentions of boycotting pies, pints and pumps. Meanwhile, the lack of information regarding Shearer's post-relegation position manifested itself in a collective regional glumness rather than Barrack Road bonfires and barricades. Storms were ridden out.

 

The real damage though is being done by stealth. Fans who don't daub on bedsheets or voice their discontent on message boards or phone-ins, but vote with their feet, stop buying tickets, shirts for their bairns etc. as their own personal point of no return is reached

 

And with next summer seeing the extended season ticket deals for a significant number of fans expire, the decision to boycott SJP has just been made easier.

 

The insular nature of the club and the way it runs its business was already having that negative effect - but this latest self-induced farce only hastens that process.

 

A new low.

 

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