Alan Pardew: “I’m responding to pressure like I always do.
“The only thing I can do is bring what I think is the right mentality to the group.
“If you ask most Premier League managers, they’ll say their treatment is very much the same.
“It’s probably a little bit more focused here, maybe because we’ve banned the local media. It seems to be slightly more revved up here.
“Everybody in the Premier League has it coming, but for me it’s probably come a little bit quicker than I expected. I have to deal with that.
“It’s important for the fans to respect and honour what you’re doing.
“I think maybe some of that trust was lost at the back end of last season.
“There could be a number of arguments why you would consider that to be my fault, and I would have to accept those if that was the opinion of the fans.
“All I can do is honour what I think I do for this football club, and that’s an honest job.
“I have to try to put a team out that not only wants to win the game, but also does so in a manner that works for this team.
“We need to win some, simple as that. The pressure that the local media, and media in general, put on me at this football club will never change.
“Sometimes, when you’re at a club for a long time, and I’m the second-longest-serving manager in the Premier League now – it becomes a little more difficult, especially at a club of this size."