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Imagine the mass hysteria of a crowd thinking the manager with the bottom of the league team isn't doing a very good job.  I don't know whether to admire the way Pardew has managed to con the media for so long about the fans expecting too much, or despise the stupidity of everyone who bought into his act for so long.

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i wonder if the next international break is significant in this?  hadn't considered it before...lose a swansea and ashley can bin pardew and take his time bringing someone in before a home game which is very winnable indeed

 

credits him with levels of foresight and planning i very much doubt exists mind

 

flip side to the theory is if we somehow beat swansea :yao:

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The worst thing is the total disconnect between people paid to talk about or write about football, and people who pay to watch it.

 

I've heard plenty of the former talking about Pardew and being full of sympathy for him, and hardly anyone taking the point of views of the paying punter.

 

As a supporter, that is the sort of utter frustration that others in the game (pundits, managers, players) can't possibly feel. I used to hear people frequently say what a good job McLeish was doing for us, for example, and it used to make me so f***ing angry, I'd just stop watching or listening to stuff about football.

 

They'll never, ever understand.

Totally agree Brummie, but this is not just a football phenomena - the media are totally removed from the average person in just about every aspect of modern life and especially so both in football and politics. Far too many idiots working in the media who have NEVER had a proper job apart from scribbling nonsense and its the same with politicians.

That's why everything is the way it is - the politicians/sportsmen are in a cosy cartel with the media and the rest of us are just the unwashed plebs as far as they are concerned.

At NUFC, Pardew seems to have a cosy relationship with much of the media and the club have SKY in their pockets.

Its not going to end well.....

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I've just listened to Talksport having a go at him yet again. They're the only ones genuinely telling it like it is.

 

I wouldn't say that. The breakfast show yesterday was embarrassing listening as they tried to claim that where he was from was a big part of the reason for us wanting him out.

 

The press really don't look at his stats do they, thinking it's where he is from yet forgetting other cockneys we have embraced, blaming not having sufficient quality of players yet ignoring the fact he endorsed every one of them in the press.

 

They need to wake the fuck up and see that the last 2 years and start of this one he has played atrocious football, has forgotten how to win games and all players go backwards under him given enough time.

 

Let's just jump on the fucking stereotypical geordies hating cockneys, I mean don't get me wrong I don't have much affection for the south but that's mostly because of the way the north east is being starved of opportunity while all attention is placed on London and surrounding areas.

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I've just listened to Talksport having a go at him yet again. They're the only ones genuinely telling it like it is.

 

I wouldn't say that. The breakfast show yesterday was embarrassing listening as they tried to claim that where he was from was a big part of the reason for us wanting him out.

 

The press really don't look at his stats do they, thinking it's where he is from yet forgetting other cockneys we have embraced, blaming not having sufficient quality of players yet ignoring the fact he endorsed every one of them in the press.

 

They need to wake the f*** up and see that the last 2 years and start of this one he has played atrocious football, has forgotten how to win games and all players go backwards under him given enough time.

 

Let's just jump on the f***ing stereotypical geordies hating cockneys, I mean don't get me wrong I don't have much affection for the south but that's mostly because of the way the north east is being starved of opportunity while all attention is placed on London and surrounding areas.

 

I actually do believe one of the issues is because of where they are from but not for the reasons portrayed in the media.

 

It is actually the reverse of what the media say.

 

I think because the people running the club are based in/from the South and refuse to engage in the city or the people here, it means that their decision-making is influenced by their prejudiced and ignorant views of the North East.  There has been no effort to develop an understanding of what the club means to the people.  Instead they encourage the image that we are all poor, stupid, ill-educated and rather insular.

 

It's like the politicians at Westminster who think they all know what is best for us without ever having visited the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The idea that we dislike him because he's from London is really offensive. Should that not count as slander? It's lazy as fuck.

Agree, it's absolutely shocking that they are allowed to spout that bollocks and get away with it.

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The idea that we dislike him because he's from London is really offensive. Should that not count as slander? It's lazy as f***.

The advantage that they have is that if it was an individual they'd get done for slander, yet somehow saying it about thousands of people is apparently fair game. It's a sign of the times in a way, imo.

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