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Alan Pardew must pay for his deal with the devil

LuckyRedsLuckyReds
in Other Football and Sports
Just stumbled across this article - http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/alan-pardews-paying-for-his-faustian-pact - found it a pretty good read actually.

Not to mention, it has some right little gems in it:
And that's when it went weird, because he didn't fail. He started winning. Then kept winning and made some of the best signings in recent Premier League history. Armed with only Alan Carr's dad, he jacked Wenger's steez by raiding France for a slew of incredible players. Nobody could work out what had gone wrong. How could a man as innately dislikeable and untrustworthy as Pardew turn himself into a genius? It was like Mick Hucknall becoming Brian Eno overnight, in that it didn’t make sense.

Can we separate the man from his work, we asked? Can you apply the "death of the author" to a dugout? And more than that, the fans of the Premier League seemed to be thinking, 'How the fuck is this twat doing this?'

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    StigStig
    Good article that. I particularly liked, "like a slighted fisherman trying to nut Gary Kasparov in a pub fight". I didn't really want the thought of the Claridge-Bhasin Sex Dungeon in my head though ;-)
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    AbsurdistanAbsurdistan
    Gharlton legend ;-)

    The price of breaking this man's eight-year contract? Ten million quid.
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    MuttleyCAFCMuttleyCAFC
    It was a strange one that contract - with the Premier League's record on going for foreign coaches and the size of Newcastle in relation to the clubs that do go English, was Pardew so at risk of being stolen that a contract of that size was needed?
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    ViewfinderViewfinder
    An entertaining read. Didn't Ashley first meet Pardew in a chance encounter at a casino, where A offered to pay off P's gambling debts?
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    BlackForestRedsBlackForestReds
    Between jobs Pardew spent a lot of time trekking around France and Germany looking at players who could be prem/championship standard and were cheap compared with the wages and transfer fees that clubs in their leagues could pay. So by the time he got the Newcastle job he had a list of players who could easily step up and would fit into their budget.
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