Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew
Alan Pardew (2012)
Personnel
Surname	Alan Scott Pardew
birthday	July 18, 1961
place of birth	Wimbledon , London ,  England
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Whyteleafe FC
1982	Epsom & Ewell	4 0(0)
	Corinthian casuals
	Dulwich Hamlet
	Yeovil Town
1987-1991	Crystal Palace	128 0(8)
1991-1995	Charlton Athletic	104 (24)
1995	→  Tottenham Hotspur  (loan)	0 0(0)
1995-1997	Barnet FC	67 0(0)
1997-1998	Reading FC	0 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998	Reading FC (interim)
1999-2003	Reading FC
2003-2006	West Ham United
2006-2008	Charlton Athletic
2009-2010	Southampton FC
2010-2014	Newcastle United
2015-2016	Crystal Palace
2017-2018	West Bromwich Albion
1 Only league games are given.

Alan Scott Pardew (born July 18, 1961 in Wimbledon , London ) is an English football coach and former player .

Player career

As a midfielder, Pardew had a career mostly outside of the major leagues. After a career as an amateur player at Yeovil Town , he spent his best time at the club Crystal Palace , with which he rose to the top English league in 1989. The highlight was then the move into the final of the FA Cup just a year later, after he had previously scored the decisive goal in the semi-final against Liverpool FC . A short time later, he moved to Charlton Athletic and spent two more seasons at FC Barnet before ending his active career in 1997.

Coaching career

Reading FC

Pardew gained his first coaching experience during his time at Barnet FC before he took over the management of the reserve team at Reading FC in 1997 under the reign of Terry Bullivant . He initially retained this position when Bullivant was replaced by Tommy Burns a year later . However, when the club decided in 1999 not to continue the replacement team after the introduction of a youth academy, Pardew's employment ended for the time being.

Only a few months later, however, he was hired as the club's head coach, having taken over the post for the second time on an interim basis. Through targeted new signings - including above all Jamie Cureton - he managed to transform the former relegation candidate of the English third division into one of the best teams in this division. Further focal points of his coaching work consisted in improving the fitness of the team and the emphasis on psychological support for his players. In this context, he introduced his motto “Tenacity, Spirit and Flair” (roughly translated as: “ Perseverance, determination, talent ”). The club was able to reach the play-off finals with Pardew at the end of the 2000/01 season and lost there against FC Walsall . Only a year later, however, the direct promotion succeeded and a surprising success followed in the second highest English division, when the newcomer immediately reached fourth place in the table. After the associated qualification for the promotion playoffs in the Premier League, Reading FC lost to Wolverhampton Wanderers . Nevertheless, this season success suddenly made Pardew one of the best young English coaches.

West Ham United

As the club settled in second place at the beginning of the season, Pardew's relationship with the club's management began to deteriorate when he assumed the coaching position at West Ham United despite a previously signed contract with Reading FC . Pardew had a release clause in his contract with Reading FC, which allowed him to terminate his contract in the event that a higher-class club showed interest in him. West Ham was also a second division and thus a competitor of Reading FC. Since this represented a breach of contract, Reading initially refused this change and issued an order prohibiting Pardew from employment with a competitor of Reading FC. Shortly before a legal battle on September 18, 2003, the two clubs agreed that Pardew was allowed to take over the coaching post in east London under certain conditions. These said that Pardew should initially stay a month off, West Ham had to pay a transfer fee of 380,000 pounds and that West Ham was not allowed to sign any Reading FC players until the end of the 2003/04 season.

With his new club Pardew succeeded in the 2004/05 season promotion to the Premier League, which was followed by a successful first division debut in ninth place in the table. He also reached the FA Cup final in 2006 - after four victories against clubs from the English elite class - and lost there after an exciting 3: 3 after regular time on penalties against Liverpool . In the subsequent 2006/07 season, however, Pardew started weak with his team in the championship round and could not prevent the club's longest losing streak in over 70 years. Despite the backing of his own supporters, Pardew was dismissed on December 11, 2006 following a 4-0 away defeat by Bolton Wanderers from the presidium - under the leadership of the new owner Eggert Magnússon .

Charlton Athletic

Less than two weeks later, he was signed by the penultimate Charlton Athletic. There he succeeded Les Reed , who had only recently been installed and who gave up his coaching post after just over a month after losing the League Cup fourth-final in the home game against fourth division club Wycombe Wanderers and the subsequent defeat in the championship against Middlesbrough FC had to. Despite a slight upward trend under Pardew, this rose with Charlton Athletic at the end of the season in the second-rate Football League Championship .

Due to some high profile signings, such as Chris Iwelumo and Luke Varney , Charlton was seen as an immediate re-promotion candidate. Rank 11 at the end of the 2007/08 season, however, meant a clear missed target and so Pardew was under considerable pressure for the following season 2008/09. Despite getting off to a good start with wins over Reading FC and Swansea City , the Pardew team's form continued to deteriorate and the team found themselves near the bottom of the table after eight games without a win. A 5-2 home defeat to Sheffield United sealed the end of Pardew's involvement in Charlton on November 22, 2008.

Southampton

From July 2009 to August 2010, Pardew was the manager of Southampton FC .

Newcastle United

In December 2010 Pardew was manager of Newcastle United , then classified in midfield. The team also ended the season in midfield.

In 2011 Pardew bought some French-speaking players like Demba Ba , Yohan Cabaye and Sylvain Marveaux In 2011/12 Newcastle had their best start to the season in 17 years with 11 games without a loss. In 2012 he bought Papiss Demba Cissé from SC Freiburg , and was able to keep the club at the top of the table for a long time.

In March 2014, Pardew committed assault on the opposing player David Meyler in the league game against Hull City with a headbutt . He was then suspended for seven games. This sentence also includes three match days as a stadium ban, making Pardew the first Premier League coach in history to serve such a sentence.

At the end of November 2017, he took over the coaching position at the relegation-threatened English first division club West Bromwich Albion . After just one win from 18 league games and most recently eight defeats in a row, the club separated from Pardew after just four months.

Others

• Pardew is married and has two daughters.
• On March 10, 2006, he publicly criticized Arsène Wenger , who did not use an English player during a Champions League match for Arsenal FC . Wenger rejected the criticism and referred to existing anti- racism campaigns in this context . Pardew countered this indirect racism accusation by referring to his Swedish partner.

Web links

Commons : Alan Pardew  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Pardew and Charlton part company" (BBC Sport)
2. ^ Southampton name Pardew as boss . In: BBC Sport , July 17, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2009. 
3. ↑ BBC Sport - Football - Southampton sack manager Pardew , BBC News. August 30, 2010. 
4. ^ Rob Parrish: Pardew lands Newcastle job . In: SkySports , December 9, 2010. 
5. ↑ http://www.nufcblog.com/2011/07/08/coloccini-an-honor-to-be-newcastle-united-captain/ comments
6. ^ Luke Edwards: Newcastle United 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2: match report , Daily Telegraph . October 16, 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
7. ^ Seven games ban for Pardew in: transfermarkt.de of March 11, 2014; accessed on March 12, 2014
8. ↑ bbc.com: West Brom: Alan Pardew appointed manager (Nov. 29, 2017) , accessed November 29, 2017
9. ↑ bbc.com: Alan Pardew: West Bromwich Albion part company with manager (Apr. 2, 2018) , accessed April 2, 2018.
10. ↑ "Pardew insists he is not a racist" (BBC, English)