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Pardew dodges the axe
Some people are amazed when managers are put under pressure, but I'm invariably more astonished when they're not.
I mean, why is Charlton's Alan Pardew not dreading every minute of every day that the trapdoor beckons?
Charlton are probably the best resourced side in the Championship, what with the Premier League parachute money, and that £16.5million steal for Darren Bent. Yet on Saturday they were stuffed 3-0 by lowly Barnsley, and have slumped to 12th place, way behind minnows like Bristol City, Hull, and even little Plymouth.
It's hard to think of another example of a well-supported, financially strong club, who have performed so badly after relegation. Loyalty is a virtue the Charlton directors seem determined to turn into a vice.
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"It's hard to think of another example of a well-supported, financially strong club who have performed so badly after relegation."
That's because Mr Mellor there are not many who are who have been relegated. But surely we should be praised for that fact rather than it as a negative against us. That is why you are finding it so perplexing you idiot.
I hate that expression
All I can say is: he's a complete ****!
Mellor, you're a d*ckhead and always have been.[/quote]
Agreed.
He knows nothing about football, was a Fulham fan when it suited him, then magically became a Chelsea when John Major became PM and he's somehow managed to turn that into a career as a football expert after wrecking the 606 show with smug asides about "plucky little <insert name of small football club> turning over a larger outfit in the FA Cup.
And it's ironic that he questions Charlton's loyalty to Pardew after his extra-marital affairs and use of his family as a stage prop, as I recall he was quite keen to have Major's loyalty then...
Having said that, he is bang on with what he says.
...even if it is a typical tabloid media 'lets get a manager sacked and slag off the club for impatience' kind of point.
he he he
Its called being a PROPER football club mate.
He's probably related to the idiot a fortnight ago who asked me which Premiership team i follow now we've been relegated....
Still, maybe Mellor could pen a few words about his original club.... Fulham.
It was around the time Bowyer was coming through, and me and my mate were listening to some of his waffle after football training one night. My mate was pissing himself as he was downstairs listening to it and I was upstairs on the blower with about a 5 second delay.
That was when I realised how much fun swearing on a radio phone in could be
I'd happily abuse Lovejoy though. Plastic Chelsea skidmark.
You can extend that to anything that Mellors says.
"...way behind little Plymouth" - they are 2 places ahead of us, after just 3 games ago, losing at home to a Charlton side who played with 10 men and a rookie goalkeeper for 87 minutes.
Charlton made 5 changes at Barnsley, including debuts for a 16 year old schoolboy and an 18 year old.
Barnsley played as if their lives depended on it, which of course was the case.
I should mention, this is the same Barnsley that recently beat Liverpool at Anfield and, of course, this idiot's Chelsea.
The meaningless end of season match for one side has always been with us.
Last season, Fulham beat a deliberately weakened Liverpool side because their 'lives' depended on it.
And Birmingham nearly did the same last Saturday.
We all know Pardew should have achieved better with the resources at his disposal - but we don't need some clown with no inside knowledge of the club and desperate to fill his column inches at any cost, to spout his rubbish as to why we were unable to 'buy'' promotion.
it's ok next season expectations will be lower, crowds will be lower(less booooers in the ground) and the pressure will be off and we can look to improve on this season and maybe finish top 10;-)
Give the dog a biscuit, well said Oggy !