I would not want to be the Europa League in the current format, that’s for sure.
ALAN PARDEWThursday night games are difficult to contend with given the level of physicality we deal with in the Premier League.
More Alan Pardew Quotes
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I did as well as I could at Newcastle.
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I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now.
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When you are in charge of a top club, where expectations are high you have to deal with that.
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Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That’s the reality, even if some don’t want to admit it.
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It’s important that top clubs don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
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I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
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It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.
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You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.
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If you’ve seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term ‘dementors’ – people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy.
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You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.
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We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.
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So we eradicate the ‘dementors’, encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here.
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I don’t like people who drain my time and energy.
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Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger.
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If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.
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