Supporters chanted for Pardew to go during Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium and was the first time United fans had – en masse – turned on the manager during a game.
Pardew – who watched from the directors’ box alongside Lee Charnley, the club’s new managing director – conceded that many fans now want a change of manager.
Alan Pardew: “There’s a lot of it against me at the moment.
“I’ll have to stand up to it and deal with it.
“All I can do is an honest job. I’ve tried to do that ever since I’ve been here.”
Pardew, whose tactics have come under increasingly close scrutiny, felt there was another factor at work at in The Potteries – the Press.
Pardew was critical of the local titles banned from St James’s Park after the game, accusing them of “whipping up bad feeling” in the build-up to the fixutre.
One newspaper ran a poll asking if he should he sacked – and 86 per cent voted for a change.
Pardew said: “It’s been very difficult – we have to cope with that.”