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Pardew’s excuses don’t make any sense.

January 9th, 2011 | 73 Comments |

Pardew: Poor excuses.
Pardew: Poor excuses.
Speaking in his post match interview after Newcastle United’s Stevenage Borough F.A. Cup fiasco, Newcastle manager, Alan Pardew, bemoaned the lack of energy levels in his team, saying:

“The physical side of Stevenage’s game was a problem for us all night.

“I can only say we are sorry for the result and for the performance because it was the performance level which was the problem tonight.

“We were running on empty.

“It’s been such a tough sequence of games.

“The team was a shadow of the team which played at Wigan and West Ham.

“Our energy level just couldn’t match theirs.

“In both boxes we got dominated. The team looked tired.

“We had some key players missing through injury but I played the strongest team I could.” (more…)