The new owner of West Ham was slightly lampooned because he made his money from biscuits and had been chairman of the Icelandic FA.
In that way the English tend to do, he was dismissed because he’s a foreigner. Well he may have made his money in an unglamorous way, and he may have run one of the smaller football associations (although no doubt England would have lost to them), but he’s clearly no fool. You don’t pay £100m for a football club, in the world’s richest league, and then have to put up with the worry of seeing your side slide down the league. The easiest solution – sack the manager. It may to harsh, it may be unfair, but it is the reality. Truth be told, Alan Pardew always had an uneasy relationship with...
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