I was talking to a friend of mine who works at the club today about “Taxigate”.
It seems that Pardew ( allegedly ) reported his wallet and phone lost that same evening.......and was out on the lash at 3.00am p I s s e d out of his tree!
If Jenkins knows this then Pardew has to go.
It won’t change the end result though......this squad absolutely stinks.
I heard about him losing his wallet and phone but not about being drunk at 3 am.
He's taking the p!ss like the 2 sacked and his mate hammond and now the players do this.
This stuff never happened to us before on tour but happens under his watch.
The players too have now started to follow the hierarchy and take the p!ss.
The last thing i recall involving the police was when some dings had a go at hughes and roberts at a bar at the mezza waterfront and a fight broke out (obviously i don't include Hughes' personal transgressions) in the Megson days.
But, i cannot recall anything abroad before involving a group of players.
Discipline off the pitch has gone and as has the solid defence on it.
I hate to say it but i think we are down.
And i'd phoenix nights brian potter over pr!kdew.
The thread is if we go down, missed that earlier in the week as others have been calling for Pardew to go now.
I suspect it is harder to get out of the Championship than to go down into it! Potter obviously works well with lesser players and must be a very good coach and deserves a chance. Definitely would not want him as PL coach as I don’t think PL players would respond to him irrespective of what he has done in Sweden.
Personally I would be happy to see him as a number 2 working with our Championship squad but with an experienced person as the number 1 (not Pulis). Not going to happen though as we ain’t going down.
I don't know why there are some derogatory remarks regarding Swedish football... Sweden have been a thorn in the England side for years.
I believe we have won 8, drawn 9 and lost 7.
Tbh glm, our clubs aren’t that good most of the time, an exception with Östersund now, and back in the days when IFK Göteborg won the Uefa cup twice, and Malmö FF reached the final of the Europa cup, lost to Nottingham Forest.
As a national team, we tend to over achieve though, not only vs good old England 😎.
1 Olympic Gold medal, 1 WC Silver medal, 1 WC Bronze medal and 1 EC Bronze medal, quite good for a country of (nowadays) ca 10 million people.
Back to the subject matter,Potter,not for me although I recognise and applaud him on his achievements,as said in another thread.smith then monk before Silva