More lies from the Newcastle manager.
For a man who doesn't "hide", where was he when Mike Ashley appointed Joe Kinnear as ... errr ... whatever job he was supposed to do?
Pardew wouldn't take interviews for a MONTH!
And for a man who LOVES to hear the sound of his own voice, that was some achievement.
Alan Pardew: “I have not hid away from it.
“I have been out on the town all week.
“I’ve plenty of kids telling me I won’t be here after Saturday, our fans.
“You can’t hide. That’s my message – there is no place to hide.
“We have 52,000 fans willing you to win.
“But we need to put in something that gives them something to hang on to.
“No. I think as a manager I have had runs like this before.
“In fact I had a worse run than this at Chartlton where you just can’t see a win coming.
“You look at yourself and you are scratching your head and that’s when you have to really dig deep.
“By the same token you have to have a level of consioucsness about what you are doing.
“And to believe in what you are doing.
“When you are winning you can have the same problem. You have different reactions to different problems.
“You do not want your own fans giving you the criticism I had to take.
“However, I have to accept it.
“The team have not functioned, particularly in the last four games. We need to put a performance in on the pitch on Saturday. There is equal frustration here with the staff and the players.
“We need to channel it in the right way.”