Life's hard when you're Alan Pardew. Newcastle United are playing like utter trash, the inhabitants of your adopted city want you drummed out of town, and even your chairman has been making jokes -- to journalists! -- about how totally screwed you are.
Alan Pardew thinks Alan Pardew is still the best
Even if the rest of Newcastle, and the universe, disagrees.
Laurence Griffiths
So how is he coping? Well, according to the Evening Chronicle, he’s reminding himself just how brilliant he is. Or was, once. In the past.
I’ve got some CV and experience that says I can do that and I can turn around this situation. I’ve got to lean on that. Nobody else is going to lean on it so it’s important that I do.
So I will go home and shine my manager of the year trophy to give myself a bit of confidence and come in tomorrow.
It’s important that I keep my right head.
Not even sure where to begin with that, to be honest. On the one hand, the devastatingly sad image of Pards sitting at home and polishing his silverware, each rub of the cloth bringing the tear-stained reflection of his face into sharper focus. On the other, the really quite disturbing implication that he might, if the polishing goes badly, turn up to training with THE WRONG HEAD.
Joe Kinnear’s head, maybe? Oh wait, there’s more.
I will not criticise the players. I don’t need to criticise them publicly. They get enough on that training ground from me, trust me.
I want them better, I want them stronger and I want them playing harder. That stays where it should stay in my opinion. Oh dear, no it doesn’t, I’ve accidentally said this to the BBC.
We added that last line.
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