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He's looking at a maximum of a ten game ban imo and given that we've nothing to play for for the rest of the season then I can't see Ashley having a problem with it.

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If you owned a company you wouldnt want to pay someone to sit at home on the most important day of the week would you ?

 

He's already been fined £100k and most of his work is done on non-match days so it's not a massive problem.

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Well either way we'll know by tonight or tomorrow morning what the FA intend doing and wether Ashley takes any further action.

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If you owned a company you wouldnt want to pay someone to sit at home on the most important day of the week would you ?

 

It's irrelevant what I'd want. As I, and others have said, we've handled our punishment already. There won't be any further action.

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There's not a chance Pardew will be sacked. The most likely punishment imo is a stadium ban till the end of the season. So what…..I doubt very much Ashley cares and he seems to enjoy confounding popular opinion. Carver/Stone will deputise on match days…..I'm not sure what Pardew adds on the sideline anyway.

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Aye. Ashley has made his stance clear, unfortunately.

 

At least we dont have to worry about his half time team talks now.

 

We should see that 90 minute consistency now that was clearly not happening because of Pardew.

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At least we dont have to worry about his half time team talks now.

 

We should see that 90 minute consistency now that was clearly not happening because of Pardew.

 

Well I wouldn't know about that. He is a bit shite mind.

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Alan Pardew: Committed To Disruptive Innovation

Alan Pardew seems to be on a mission to prove a point. Or at least make sure everyone is looking at him as often as possible. He's committed to disruptive innovation...

Last Updated: 06/03/14 at 09:45 Post Comment

 

In certain parts of the country...actually, scratch that, let's not be coy about this - in the w*nkier parts of London, there are things called 'creative hubs' which allow people who a) generally work alone and b ) take themselves far too seriously, to congregate in an office space.

They're a place for freelance designers, journalists and more often than not 'entrepreneurs' to concentrate their collective vacuous bullsh*t in one place, so as to keep the rest of town as uncluttered with such unpleasantness as possible.

 

As you might expect, these places are full of ghastly people who combine words to create phrases that have no genuine meaning in reality. They're just noises or shapes on a screen that combine the very worst and most clichéd elements of David Brent and Nathan Barley, mix them together and bind them with a bulletproof sense of self-regard.

'I am London based startup founder with a passion for disruptive innovation,' is one, mystifyingly genuine example of such talk, on the website of a company that is supposed to encourage people to work with them. If anyone can explain, in one sentence, exactly what the hell 'disruptive innovation' is, please do so in the comments section.

 

It's hard to escape the conclusion that, if he wasn't a football manager, Alan Pardew would look very much at home in these places. The fondess for his own reflection. The air that he's unshakably certain that he's just a little bit smarter than you. The glasses. The ever-present glass of pineapple juice.

Pardew has the look of a man who comes into work every day at around 10.30am, twirling the keys of his Porsche Boxter (he read about it in Top Gear magazine) around his finger, makes a faintly lewd comment to the receptionist then proceeds to dick about with nobody having a clear idea of what he's there for before popping out for a two-hour lunch, after which he gets in another solid couple of hours dicking about, before leaving at 4pm, revving the car he knows nothing about just loud enough so everyone in the office can hear.

 

The image of Pardew as a faintly creepy director of a creative industry doesn't necessarily suggest a man who has a predilection for minor bursts of largely unprovoked violence. It's often said of the more 'robust' players in football that they could start a fight in a phonebox; scrappy types like Dennis Wise, Paul Ince and Lee Cattermole would happily get punchy with little encouragement (actually, Cattermole would deliver a vicious two-footed challenge to a damp Yellow Pages from 1997, then wander off shaking his head and wondering how the world had conspired against him again), but not Pardew.

 

The most curious thing about Pardew's occasional forays into the world of fisticuffs is that they are seemingly utterly inexplicable and appear to come from nowhere. He doesn't strike one as a coiled spring of rage, ready to explode at any moment and at the slightest provocation.

 

Take the latest example, the 'footballer's headbutt' on David Meyler, which was the sort of 'violent' act that would be laughed at in some of Glasgow's spicier pubs, but nonetheless ranks pretty high on the 'Ah, you probably shouldn't do that' scale. Meyler had committed the decidedly un-heinous sin of trying to retrieve the ball for a throw-in, brushing against Pards on the way, so of course, the natural reaction to such a gross invasion of personal space is to throw the nut in. Of course it is.

 

To don the amateur psychologist's...actually, what do psychologists wear? Tweed jacket with elbow patches? Trilby? Arseless chaps? Anyway - to take the role of amateur psychologist for a moment, it could be that Pardew's occasional bursts of the inexplicable are an effort to scream at the world 'I'll show you'.

 

He is a man who, since joining Newcastle at least, has consistently had to justify himself, from the appointment in the first place, deposing the very popular Nice Man Chris Hughton amid a flurry of accusations that he was only there because he was Mike Ashley's pontoon buddy down the casino, to that comical eight-year contract, Pardew has always seemed to be a man facing questions about his very existence, the constant suspicion that he really shouldn't be in such a job, despite perfectly respectable results and being the Premier League's second-longest-serving manager.

 

Pardew is seemingly a man on an ongoing mission to prove a point, to make you notice he is there, which can manifest itself through machismo and aggression, making sure everyone knows how great he is or simply acting like a bit of a dick. It might stem from a deep, crippling insecurity, it might stem from a reaction to the streams of criticism that seem to head his way, or it might stem from being a bit of a dick.

 

Or, perhaps he's just committed to disruptive innovation. We may never know.

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Because the FA are classing this charge as "non standard" it leaves things pretty much open as to what kind of punishment they will give him. He's received no support from the LMA so he's pretty much being hung out to dry all he can do is accept the charge and see what happens.

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They gave a 4 match ban for something similar a few years back, if they go after pardew, which they will because the BBC and Sky are outraged by Pardews actions, it'll be ten, if they follow their own precedent (which would be likely at most organisations but this is the FA) it will be 4

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