Jump to content

Recommended Posts

http://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-winners-and-losers-95

 

 

Alan Pardew

 

Pardew’s greatest trick is making you believe that this West Brom situation was already a lost cause when he arrived. Such is his emphatic under-performance since joining the club, you might assume that three-quarters of the ship was already underwater, and the rest was sinking fast.

 

That’s actually completely untrue. Pardew was appointed on November 29 with West Brom outside the relegation zone and with 24 league games remaining in their season. The greatest damnation of his reign is that the three clubs below West Brom and in the bottom three on November 29 are all now outside it.

 

Pardew was supposed to transform the mood, and on that score he can at least claim success: Under Tony Pulis, monotony and tedium reigned; now the only talk is of disaster.

 

Pardew’s record of eight points from a possible 51 is sensationally bad. This is the realm of the over-promoted and inexperienced, the Terry Connors, Ricky Sbragias and Steve Wigleys of this unforgiving world. Pardew has won one of his 17 league matches. Pitiful.

 

Pardew’s biggest failure lies in his inability to maintain morale even when West Brom have taken a step in the right direction. His entire managerial ethos surrounds the generating and cherishing of high team spirit, but that has been absent.

 

Take the lead against Leicester; lose. Take the lead against Bournemouth; lose. Take the lead against Southampton; lose. Take the lead against West Ham; lose. In their last 10 league games, Pardew’s West Brom have scored the first goal of the game six times and yet somehow managed to take just four points from those games. That’s relegation confirmed in one statistic.

 

Pardew has now won seven of his last 55 Premier League matches with two different clubs. He should now be finished as a Premier League manager, and would be were it not for the unfathomable lingering goodwill that comes with ‘knowing the league’. A plea to owners of struggling Premier League clubs in this and any other season: experience of failure is less useful that inexperience.

 

Link to post
Share on other sites

Take the lead against Leicester; lose. Take the lead against Bournemouth; lose. Take the lead against Southampton; lose. Take the lead against West Ham; lose. In their last 10 league games, Pardew’s West Brom have scored the first goal of the game six times and yet somehow managed to take just four points from those games. That’s relegation confirmed in one statistic.

 

Pardew has now won seven of his last 55 Premier League matches with two different clubs. He should now be finished as a Premier League manager, and would be were it not for the unfathomable lingering goodwill that comes with ‘knowing the league’. A plea to owners of struggling Premier League clubs in this and any other season: experience of failure is less useful that inexperience.

 

:lol:

 

Brutal, and brilliant.

Link to post
Share on other sites

Take the lead against Leicester; lose. Take the lead against Bournemouth; lose. Take the lead against Southampton; lose. Take the lead against West Ham; lose. In their last 10 league games, Pardew’s West Brom have scored the first goal of the game six times and yet somehow managed to take just four points from those games. That’s relegation confirmed in one statistic.

 

Pardew has now won seven of his last 55 Premier League matches with two different clubs. He should now be finished as a Premier League manager, and would be were it not for the unfathomable lingering goodwill that comes with ‘knowing the league’. A plea to owners of struggling Premier League clubs in this and any other season: experience of failure is less useful that inexperience.

 

:lol:

 

Brutal, and brilliant.

 

The last sentence hits so fucking hard, it's so true but sadly I don't see many teams heeding the advice.

Link to post
Share on other sites

So glad its West Brom he's taking down, they are such a nothing club, and just exist to maintain the status quo and keep on the Premier League gravy train.

 

Since they got promoted they've finished in 11th on 47 points, 10th on 47 points, 8th on 49 points, 17th on 36 points, 13th on 44 points, 14th on 43 points and 10th on 45 points, such mediocrity. :lol:

Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...