James McArthur’s double helped Crystal Palace sink Newcastle 5-1 on Saturday.
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Second half goals from Bolasie and McArthur ensured it was yet another miserable day for Newcastle.
They are unlikely to admit it, but some Newcastle fans may secretly wish they had not been so vocal in their criticism of Pardew, given how badly things have gone since he left.
Writing in his column in The Sun about his inviting his son to matches, Shearer says: “I ask him if he wants to go to the match and he says ‘No, no thanks Dad”.
There was only one side in the game with the visitors looking particularly beleaguered and Jason Puncheon fired narrowly over from the edge of the area soon after, and Bolasie then missed with a similar chance as he attempt to hit a second hat-trick of 2015.
Whilst maybe more importantly, he would also be sure to insist on choosing any signings, rather than this failed route of employing managers/head coaches such as McClaren and Pardew who have no say on who comes in or goes out.
The 2,800 away fans at Selhurst Park booed McClaren and his players at the final whistle on Saturday having chanted “We’re s**t and we’re sick of it”, during their team’s latest surrender. “We were pointless and clueless, as we were called then, and it took a good six, seven months to get through that”.
The ex-Newcastle boss offered support to McClaren’s Tyneside plight, but refused to be drawn on the St James’ Park situation.
Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha. We can’t have that: “you’ve got to keep, keep, keep, keep, keep doing your job”.
“It’s about pride, working for each other and not letting down the man next to you – at the present moment we’ve not got that”.
That being said I don’t think that they will win.
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“It’s done a lot for confidence and we play Everton next week, who are another team who we normally have good games against, but every season is different so that will be another tough game for sure”. Were we going to become a mid-table team and just drift around there, or were we going to put ourselves back in contention with those top-eight sides? Cabaye is a superstar and he has a good sense in front of goal so expect the Frenchman to put a few into the back of the Newcastle net.
