17-04-2018, 08:01
St Charles, I think you make a very fair point and you always hope that the coach or other members of the backroom staff are having a quiet word in the manager's ear, to temper some of their excesses. On reading what has come out in the last few weeks, I get the impression that neither Pulis nor Pardew were amenable to such "advice". Very different characters but both seeming to have one consistent trait - a pig-headed belief in the absolute correctness of their decisions, to the exclusion of any other prevailing views.