Alan Pardew appointed Newcastle manager - expect relegation battle soon.

[goodison]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...ed/9267960.stm

Oh well .. maybe another relegation might finally force Mike Ashley to leave. Feel sorry for the Newcastle fans, they deserve better just based on their support of the club

[fishtoast]

Think it is a bad choice myself,would never have wanted him and in newcastle-he only got 15 people vote for him out off a thousand in a paper vote to be next boss-shows how much they didnt want him as boss,http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newca...2703-27788960/
but a 5 and half year deal as well-thats mad-he will be sacked sometime next year as contracts mean nothing.

[glenman]

The contract means he will be laughing all the way to the bank from some villa somewhere.

[adam_ayres1988]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ed/9273388.stm

Couple of quotes from there:


"I've had a lot of texts from managers saying 'you must be mad going there'," said Pardew, 49, on Thursday.

Don't be silly Pardew isn't mad, he's perfectly sane....

"But it's one of the top five clubs in England. It's a daunting prospect but something I couldn't turn down."

I take it back he's as mad as a hatter (which come from back in the day when people used mercury in the making of hats).