... been goal-shy in recent weeks but exploded into life on Saturday thanks to a Moussa Sissoko brace and one each for Loic Remy and Vurnon Anita.
Pardew's antics will generate yet more negative headlines for a club never far from controversy for one reason or another, and the manager admits Saturday's episode may well be a personal watershed.
Alan Pardew: "Definitely from now on I'm going to sit down and stay out of the way.
"I'll have to sit in the dugout - hopefully I'll be in the dugout, we'll have to wait and see, it could be an FA ban.
"I want to win games. Perhaps I get too involved in it by standing so close to the action. The thing today has told me to go and sit down, watch the game and keep out of the way.
"Sir Alex Ferguson once said to me, 'go and sit down'. I think he was probably right.''