Former Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has slammed club legend Alan Shearer regarding his comments about the England managerial position.
Following a terrible showing during the European Championships by England, Roy Hodgson duly tendered his resignation as manager and the English FA now have a big job on their hands to find the right man in charge to lead the Three Lions.
In the aftermath of Hodgson’s sacking, former England international striker Alan Shearer had gone on to put his name in the hat by stating that he would be open to taking over the reins of the national team.
Despite his wonderful career, Shearer does not have too much managerial credentials and his spell as manager of Newcastle United back in 2009 was nothing short of an unmitigated disaster.
Former Newcastle boss, Alan Pardew – who is also one of the candidates for the England job, has taken exception to Shearer’s recent comments and has now stated that the 45-year-old does not have the qualification to take on such a high pressure position.
Writing in his column for the Daily Mail, Pardew fumed, “It makes my blood boil when pundits on TV, such as Alan Shearer, say ‘I’ll do it’.
“He was a top, top striker but he has no coaching qualifications and his only experience as a manager was very brief — when he took Newcastle down into the Championship.
“What experience does he have of putting on a session, of building an identity, when every session needs to be about building, creating that identity and taking the players with you?
“They need to understand and buy into it. Together you then move towards that. It’s easy to say ‘I’ll do it’ from a comfy chair, but he has nothing to back that up.
“Gary Neville has shown how hard the transition is. You can go into any cafe in the country and they’ll give you their England team. But it’s not as simple as picking the best players.”
*** pardew you truly have the balls to come out with some ***** .. Yes your right .. Big al does not have the qualifications .. But what the hell do you know about football .. You complete looser .. This is the guy that didn’t have a clue how to even score a goal from a corner for two years .. *******
Andy(Quote)
hear, hear mate. Can’t stand the ****
Kimtoon(Quote)
Andros Townsend personal statement to Newcastle fans:
‘I would like to put on record my sincerest thanks to the manager, board and fans of Newcastle United for the warmth and support they have shown me since I joined in January.
Please believe me when I say that this has been an incredibly difficult decision and one I have not taken lightly.
I signed for Newcastle fully aware of the task at hand and it was my absolute desire to keep the club in the Premier League.
I hope the fans could see that from day one I gave everything I possibly could during the season and never once gave up on the fight for survival. That’s why it was so hard when despite those efforts we fell short.
The future for Newcastle is very bright, with some great young players and an outstanding Manager who I have the utmost respect for.
However, after talking at length with the Manager and Managing Director I have made the decision to leave the club based purely on footballing reasons, with my wish to remain in the Premier League.
I remain humbled by the support of the fans during my time at Newcastle and wish everyone associated with the club success for the future.
The fans deserve a winning team and I fully expect to see the club promoted back to the Premier League at the first attempt
Thank you
Kimtoon(Quote)
KIM if he thought that why did he leave for a second class club and manager doesnt wash with me
icedog(Quote)
Shearer’s 8 games in charge were a disaster but I am not sure if anybody could have done much better. He handcuffed himself by choosing Ian Dowie as his coach and I would hope he would not make such an error again.
I am sending Alan Pardew a copy of Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
no wonder pardew has a brown gob with the **** he comes out with,hes full of his own importance the mans a creep
icedog(Quote)
Klingsman did it if im not mistaken
icedog(Quote)
Ice: Townsend is a London boy and I think that had something to do with it. He doesn’t know what he is letting himself in for with Pardew. Pardew starts strong and builds a decent team spirit but his patter gets old very soon. He has one tactic – to keep it tight for the 1st and last 20 minutes. We all know part of this is that he tries to convert every winger into a fullback.
Pardew seems to have a very good reputation with people around the country EXCEPT with the teams he has managed like NUFC, Charlton and West Ham. Palace were close to turning as well when he went on one of his patented death spirals. I think the FA cup run saved him as I doubt their new American owners would have been as forgiving as Ashley.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
NICKY ime sure your thread on Berbatov is wrong i think hes signed for aussie club Melboure city unless hes pulled out it was a signing to rival another club signing T Carhill
icedog(Quote)
ERIC he also got the bullet from S/Hampton for tapping up one of wifes board members
icedog(Quote)
I’m no fan of Pardew, but I can understand where he is coming from on this one to be fair.
The pundits sit there and slag off managers, referees and fans (plenty have had a pop at us).
The likes of Hoddle & Souness can cast a fair judgement on management things, but it does **** me off when you watch the likes of Jamie Redknapp, Carragher, Merson, Le Tiss all slagging off managers when they have never done that job.
I know some would say, well we do it on this site all the time – we don’t make a living from it, that’s the difference for me.
Sharpy17(Quote)
Shearer= 8 matches at Newcastle 08-09
“He took Newcastle down”
Pardew = 28 matches at Charlton 06/07 & 19 matches at Charlton in 2008-09
“Charlton were on the slide before I got there”
Personally i think it would be more inappropriate to have someone who tries to head **** opposition players & throws the C-word at opposition managers In charge of the national team than someone lacking experience
CC(Quote)
CC here here
icedog(Quote)
CC, spot on mate, he is a sprat in a sea of big fish managers, he has signed a contract extension because he knows full well the FA wouldn’t bother to ask him. Palace is his level and that’s probably being harsh on Palace truth be told.
Kimtoon(Quote)
Sharpy: I can understand where you are coming from, but it is Pardew slagging off Big Al. I am taking Shearer’s side out of principle even though I can see the gobshite Pardew has a point.
What he forgets to say is that despite the coaching badges that Pardew himself is ***** and is totally unqualified to manage England as well, as evidenced by his record which is worse than Mr. Roys.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Kimtoon: Palace will never get anywhere with Pardew. I don’t care if the sign Townsend and Benteke. He will play them out of position and they will get sick of his “tactics”. As I have mentioned before, he had Tevez and Mascerano and where did that get him?
Eric Sykes(Quote)
West Ham were in 18th when they sacked Pardew. This is how one website described it:
“The following season started brightly, and Pardew pulled off one of the most unexpected transfer coups this century when signing both Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez. With Zamora having already scored five times in four games, the Hammers looked well set to make a bid for the top six, but from the start of September, they suffered an alarming drop in form, with 10 defeats in 13 games leading to the club’s new owners making the call to remove Pardew from his position.”
Sound familiar Palace fans?
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Eric, I think it is now clear he doesn’t like flair players, he ruins them imo.
Kimtoon(Quote)
Pardew’s winning % isn’t all that bad but that is because he managed most of his time in the lower leagues which is about his level. When asked to step up he has always ultimately failed. Having him step up another level to England would be a disaster but would be good comic relief for the Scots, Welsh and Germans (or even Icelanders now).
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Kimtoon: you and I were in complete agreement about Pardew, it wasn’t just that we were always struggling but about the brand of (anti) football he played. I can count on one hand the number of games I actually enjoyed under him. I think the best was his first home game against West Ham with Hughton’s team before he got his ideas across. Even when we finished 5th we would nick the wins by the odd goal and have a smattering of hammerings.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Shearer and Pards are the same odds to get the job 20/1. Klinsmann is favourite and Fat Sam 2nd. I would offer it to Pelligrini but he is an outsider at 25/1.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
i will never forget the look of hate in Pardews eyes when Townsend put that free kick away,priceless
icedog(Quote)
I have seen people say Klinsmann hasn’t done well with the USA. That is total ****. With the players he has he has overachieved.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
totally agree
icedog(Quote)
Actually Eric, you’re right. Pardew had no right as Al wasn’t discrediting anyone – and its that that annoys me. Like when they go on about the manager get his team or subs wrong – they are slagging the individual off.
Al didn’t do that, he didn’t say he’d be a better option than Pardew or anyone else – he just said he’d be interested in speaking to the FA.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I think the next manager needs to be a good man manager more than anything else – I think that’s hugely important.
If you look at the squad of players, they are all technically gifted enough. But they need moulding into a team and form that bond that the likes of Wales & ROI seem to have.
The better England managers – Sir Bobby, Sir Alf, Terry Venables for example – they all knew how to bond those groups of players. It’s so important in tournament football as they are only together for a short space of time.
Sharpy17(Quote)
SHARPY of coarse its just common sense nobody rubbished anybody on the panel that night,it just hurts Pardews ego, thinks theres nobody like him hopefuuly there isnt
icedog(Quote)
Rafa has really changed things at training ground,theres going to be training in the morning then rest in players room then back to afternoon training,a full days work like it should be
icedog(Quote)
I hope Wales DON’T get stuffed.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Ice, Eric, I wouldn’t mind Kinsmann , I said the other day that maybe he could instil a bit of the German winning mentality into England. You are both right about moulding the players into a proper team but there is a fundamental problem to achieving that, in so much as the players seem capable of only playing for themselves. If you look at Iceland, Wales and Ireland they know they are up against it and so naturally form a tight unit to get a win against the odds. England players are always overhyped pre- tournament and far too many are entering the tournaments to get the benefit of lucrative ad deals on the back of it and to stroke their over inflated egos . Some even using it as a vehicle to get a big club move after the tournament. In years gone by this was not so prevalent imo, you had players putting everything on the line to win, players with immense pride to put the three lions shirt on their back. Too much money leads to poor motivation because the hunger isn’t there.
Get in Ashley, great stuff lad 😀 There it is, never say die attitude, we had none of that except against Wales a bit second half. Well done Wales, now go on and win
Kimtoon(Quote)
I don’t see why Al and an old head alongside could do any worse than the previous managers. People talk about his time as Toon boss, but he had 8 games only and a very disruptive Joey Barton constantly trying to undermine him. Even Rafa couldn’t do it with 10 games.
Kimtoon(Quote)
The Dutch didn’t qualify under Van Gaal & Hiddink with all their experience, They were good under Rijkard & Van Basten in their first coaching roles
Eric Ribbeck was the worst Germany manager of all time, He was also the oldest when he was appointed, Voller & Klinsman
The ironic thing about Pardews argument is that Shearer is far more experienced when it comes to being involved in truly elite football (Champions league/International football) & with some old heads like Venables around him it could work.
Pardew & Allardyce have between them been involved in football for about 50 years between them & the closest they have got to taking on europes finest stage is a few **** poor sides in the UEFA cup/Europa league. Graham Taylor was accused of lacking relevant experience and he had a far more credible cv than those two chancers
CC(Quote)
CC, Exactly
Kimtoon(Quote)
* Voller & Klinsman worked wonders without any coaching record
CC(Quote)
really good point mate 8 for Al 10 for Rafa apart from Barton Owen did nothing to help
icedog(Quote)
Ice, true mate, half that team had their eyes on other clubs before we’d even dropped.
Kimtoon(Quote)
Ice: we have one trying to put himself in the shop window if he gets picked – Sissoko.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
I was putting forward Klinsmann for the Toon job and got ridiculed by a certain Lee Clark backer. That is before we got Rafa and then it didn’t seem so far fetched after all.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Big Al still smarting about England going out, having a rant at half time
Kimtoon(Quote)
Eric I would of took him but glad we got Rafa
Kimtoon(Quote)
far to up and down for me mate,sell him and bring someone in thats going to give 100% every game,wont be a miss for my money
icedog(Quote)
That cheating **** Fellani on for Belgium
Kimtoon(Quote)
Ice, I’m praying someone is daft enough to be fooled by the hype and sign him, lots of pace little end product for me. And that’s when he can be arsed.
Kimtoon(Quote)
just like Stirling for me NO end product,how that Fellani doesnt get a red card every other game beats me
icedog(Quote)
Anyone see the discussion on england at half time? Shearer had some good points regarding a lack of a leader
Andy The Magpie(Quote)
Oh get in , brilliant
Kimtoon(Quote)
The Chronicle are saying Ritchie had 11 goals and 13 assists during his season in the Championship. I said 15 goals and 17 assists earlier. This is where I got it from and it has some other interesting information on him:
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-06-23/premeir-league-one-to-watch-bournemouth-and-scotland-winger-matt-ritchie/
The Chron article has some interesting stuff but I don’t know if I would trust their stats as they come from the Lee Ryder School of Investigative Journalism.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
ERIC stop swearing (Lee Ryder)
icedog(Quote)
Fellani trying to lame Bale the git
icedog(Quote)
yes Andy I posted he’d had a little rant. He made good points re a lack of plan A or B in the event it goes tits up. I still maintain that too many England players play for themselves, they are prone to panicking far too easily too but that could be down to lack of experience, Rooney aside. For me Roy got his selection all wrong, unfit players , players out of form, it was doomed from the get go truth be told. Need a brave coach who is unafraid to leave the big names at home if their form/fitness is poor. They need to look at the smaller clubs too, it is not a prerequisite that you can only pick from top four clubs, many smaller clubs have one sometimes two outstanding players more than capable of doing a good job for the national side. Dare I say it could mean even more to them to be selected. Was Hart really the best we could of taken, I think he was shocking for us.
Kimtoon(Quote)
Can’t abide that little s***
Kimtoon(Quote)
Cracking goal from Robson Kanu that like. He’s impressed me this tournament and I’ve been saying we should take him – he’s still available on a free!!!.
Sharpy17(Quote)
KIM Hart was dropped a few times at City for self and same things
icedog(Quote)
Ice, yep he was but he doesn’t have dandruff so that’s ok 😉
Kimtoon(Quote)
😆 😆
icedog(Quote)
Gotta feel for Ramsey like, they will miss him if they go through
Kimtoon(Quote)
it’s astonishing really, after this he won’t be free much longer I’d wager
Kimtoon(Quote)
I saw the players complaining that Mr. Roy was concentrating on “shadow play” in training. From what I can figure this is a walk though with traffic cones showing how to transition play from the back. It seems really stupid to me to be trying to reach players basic technical aspects of the game in the middle of a tournament. Especially when transitioning from the back was not the problem, rather it was trying to work out how to break down a team playing 2 banks of 4, which is what all the teams England played started out doing.
It shows how out of touch Mr. Roy was. He still found time to go sight seeing when Iceland payed in Paris though.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
What did Big Al say at half time? We get Craig Burley who isn’t too bad at all. The yanks don’t get the star names as pundits but they generally do a very good job.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Chris has done a brilliant job with Wales, Speedo will be smiling down on them tonight if they progress that’s for sure.
Kimtoon(Quote)
Kimtoon: I think Hart’s hair is thinning a bit so he may lose his 3rd job along with the England and City jobs.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
hes done well,but has one canny game in ten not my type got to aim higher than him imo
icedog(Quote)
He said that it’s not the fault of the academies and it was a lack of a plana or b and the players didn’t know what was expected of them. That they played a system prior to the tournament then ditched it and he took too many out of form/injured players.
Kimtoon(Quote)
i used that wash and go and it went
icedog(Quote)
Get in Wales
Kimtoon(Quote)
Thanks Kimtoon: he got it spot on.
Fck Me. Wales in the semis.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Kim – you are so right. What happened with Speed could have set them back to be fair. Coleman had a real difficult job on there but the way he handled the situation and got the players together is brilliant.
I do think Bale plays a big part too mind. World class player, but he’s not a prima dona & is just like one of the lads – not like Ronaldo with Portugal.
Sharpy17(Quote)
😆 😆 Think my brother been on that stuff too
Kimtoon(Quote)
WOW what a bullet header – outstanding stuff from Wales & totally deserved.
Robbie Savage can barely hold back the tears 😆
Sharpy17(Quote)
So much for the ***** about the PL not being good enough. Wales have 8 in the PL and 1 in The Championship. It is England and their manager who are not good enough.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
True, more over I think he inspires the others to raise their game, like they don’t want to let him down let alone the fans
Kimtoon(Quote)
So so pleased for them, I would love them to go all the way, or Iceland.
Kimtoon(Quote)
just shows what team work and pride does for you,the skillful player (Bale) has had a poor game imo,skillful players can have off days but team work will always be there if you have it to start with
icedog(Quote)
I think we might have seen a passing of the torch at Madrid from Ronaldo to Bale. They are giving Bale a new deal and Ronaldo has been awful. He is too good of a player for it to last but he might have to adjust his game and stop being such a brat to his team mates. He does it at Real as well. I watch just about all of their games and Ronaldo is ALWAYS the last to congratulate Bale when he scores.
Eric Sykes(Quote)
Kim – I think Williams is an unbelievable leader as well mind. He’s such a rock in defence for both Wales & Swansea.
Sharpy17(Quote)