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Alan Pardew
Personal information
Full name	Alan Scott Pardew
Date of birth	July 18, 1961 (age 45)
Place of birth	Wimbledon, England
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Nickname	Pards
Playing position	Manager (former Midfielder)
Club information
Current club	Charlton
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1987 1987-1991 1991-1995 1995 1995-1997 1998	Yeovil Town Crystal Palace Charlton Athletic → Tottenham Hotspur (loan) Barnet Reading	000 0(0) 128 0(8) 104 (24) 000 0(0) 067 0(0) 000 0(0)
Teams managed
1999-2003 2003-2006 2006-	Reading West Ham United Charlton Athletic
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Alan Scott Pardew (born 18 July 1961 in Wimbledon, London) is an English football manager and beforehand a player. As a player, he was a steady, hardworking midfielder, most notably playing for Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic. He has previously managed Reading and West Ham United. On 11 December 2006, he was sacked as West Ham manager after a disappointing start to the club's 2006-07 season. On 24 December 2006, he was appointed Charlton Athletic manager on a three and a half year deal.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Reading 3 West Ham United 4 Charlton Athletic 5 Managerial stats 6 References 7 External links

After several years combining a career in non-league football at Dulwich Hamlet with a full-time job as a glazier and a cabbie, Pardew signed for Crystal Palace from Yeovil Town for £7,500 in 1987. The highlight of his playing career came in 1990 when he helped Crystal Palace reach the FA Cup final, by scoring the winner against Liverpool in a memorable semi-final at Villa Park, a game that Palace won 4-3, just a year after helping them to promotion to the First Division via the Second Division playoffs. He later turned out for Charlton Athletic and Barnet, where he acted as player/coach to manager Terry Bullivant. That summer, Bullivant moved to Reading, and took Pardew - who had returned to Dulwich Hamlet for a short stint as their centre half - with him as assistant.

Pardew stayed as coach at Reading for the next two years, being promoted to manager of the club after a successful spell as caretaker in 1999. He turned the club around from relegation fighters to promotion candidates through players, such as Jamie Cureton, and his régime to increase the fitness of the squad. Pardew also coined his motto "Tenacity, Spirit and Flair" to give his side a psychological edge. This resulted in a 3-2 Division Two playoff final defeat to Walsall at the end of the 2000-01 season, but was redeemed the next season by achieving automatic promotion to Division One. Pardrew's first season in the higher division was outstanding, as the club finished 4th and lost in the play-offs once again, this time to Wolves. Pardew was on the map as one of the game's best up and coming young managers.

Early into the 2003-04 season, with Reading 2nd in the table, Pardew's relationship with the club turned sour when he reneged on a recently signed contract and accepted the manager's job at West Ham. Pardew had a clause in his contract that allowed him to accept offers from clubs in a higher league, but West Ham were in the same league as Reading at the time. As this was in breach of contract, Reading initially refused to let Pardew leave the club and attempted to obtain an injunction to prevent him from being employed by a competing club. However, Pardew made it clear that he wanted to leave Reading to manage West Ham. In a deal agreed just ahead of a court appearance on 18 September 2003, it was agreed that he could take control of the East London club, on the condition that he take one month gardening leave, that West Ham pay £380,000 in compensation, and that West Ham sign no Reading players or staff before the end of the 2003-04 season.

Outside London's High Court after the situation had been resolved Pardew responded "I am pleased that common sense has prevailed and the matter has now been resolved. I would first like to thank Reading for the 4 fantastic years I have had there and i wish them all the very best for the future but this is an opportunity too good to turn down. Being a Londoner I'm well aware of the stature and the history and tradition of the club and the need to play the style of football the supporters expect. I know how passionate they are about the club, they truly are the lifeblood and I can't wait to take over and continue the job in hand of getting this great club back into the Premiership where it belongs"^{[citation needed]}

Until his dismissal in December 2006, Pardew never brought a Reading player to West Ham. Pardew gained West Ham promotion to the Premiership in 2004-05, and he guided the Hammers to a respectable start to the 2005-06 season. Pardew made headlines on 10 March 2006 when he criticised Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger for not fielding any English players in the UEFA Champions League, a comment which Wenger responded to by calling Pardew racist. Pardew dismissed Wenger's claim by saying his wife is Swedish.

Pardew had the ability to add value to players who have been let go by others, strikers Bobby Zamora and Marlon Harewood being but two.

Pardew's claim that West Ham Utd taught Everton a 'footballing lesson' after a game in the 2005/2006 season was astonshing but accurate. Jerry Emmett was said to be devastated by the news. Unfortunately, Pardew suffered the injury to Dean Ashton which many believe contributed to their demise more so than Pardew's managerial skills or lack of them.

Pardew's greatest achievements at West Ham include winning promotion to the Premiership in the 2004-05 season and reaching the FA Cup final in the 2005-06 season, beating four Premiership clubs on the way before losing to the-then European Champions Liverpool on penalties, after a thrilling 3-3 draw. He was also widely or maybe wildley tipped as the next England manager.

Towards the end of his reign at West Ham, Pardew came under fire after seeing them through their worst run of defeats in over 70 years. Most supporters remained patient, but a small minority called for his dismissal as patience wore thin. Before kick-off and during West Ham's 2-1 win over Blackburn Rovers on 29 October 2006 fans showed their support for Pardew by chanting "There's only one Alan Pardew". After the game, West Ham's first win in 9 games, Pardew said "I'm not the most emotional of people but I was a little bit choked at the start, with the way they backed me, and I thank them for that." On 5 November 2006, after West Ham's goal against Arsenal, scored by Marlon Harewood, Alan Pardew's touchline celebrations led to a confrontation with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. On 4 January 2007, Pardew was cleared by the Football Associaton of a charge of improper conduct regarding this incident.

On 11 December 2006, following a 4-0 defeat away at Bolton Wanderers the previous weekend, it was announced as a press conference that Alan Pardew had been sacked as West Ham United. The club statement read " The chairman Mr Eggert Magnússon and the board have been concerned by the performances of recent weeks and feel that it is the right time to make a change in the best interests of the club."^[1]

The news broke of Alan Pardew's appointment as struggling Les Reed's successor at Charlton Athletic at 19:27 on 24 December 2006.^[2] Sky Sports News digital television channel claimed Pardew had signed a three-and-a-half year deal at the Premiership's second-bottom side. Les Reed's position as manager came under fire from Charlton's fans after an initially dubious appointment, as well as having to suffer a Carling Cup quarter-final exit at the hands of Wycombe Wanderers at home, and a Premiership defeat at Middlesbrough the day before Pardew's appointment. He took over with Charlton in 19th place in the Premiership having played 19 games and earning just 12 points with a -20 goal difference, the lowest in the league. His reign began with a 2-2 home draw against Fulham on 27 December 2006. Charlton lead the game at 90 minutes when Franck Queudrue's stoppage-time volley, following a dubious free-kick decision in which no Charlton players touched the ball or the player, denied Alan Pardew a winning start as Charlton's new boss. But Pardew enjoyed his first win with Charlton in the following match, after a dramatic 2-1 home victory over Aston Villa on 30 December 2006. Bryan Hughes scored the winning goal with a header in injury time.

However the win was followed by a run of unfavourable results including a 4-0 loss away to Arsenal and defeats away to Nottingham Forest and home to Middlesbrough Hope here was high, and Darren Bent was not sold. All was not lost and the team followed these losses up with their first victory away from home in 15 months, against Portsmouth at Fratton Park where Amady Faye scored his first goal in English Football, this game also marked new signing Ben Thatcher's return to Fratton Park where he had received a lengthy penalty for a reckless challenge on Pedro Mendes. The new signing stood up well to the taunts he received from the Pompey faithful and in doing so endeared himself to the Addicks. A game at Bolton's Reebok Stadium resulted in another point away from home thanks to a trademark Talal El Karkouri free kick and The Addicks had kept in touch with the teams around them. The next two games Chelsea at home and Manchester United resulted in expected losses, but the performances against both boosted confidence further. The Manchester United game meant debuts for Alex Song, Madjid Bougherra and Zheng Zhi, all of whom impressed.

Charlton played their next league game at home to fellow strugglers West Ham in what was Alan Curbishley's first return to his former club, and Alan Pardew steered Charlton to a 4-0 thrashing over his former club. The West Ham faithful were heard chanting chanting " Theres only one Alan Pardew " and " To the door, Curbs! " for Pardew, obviously not agreeing with Pardew's sacking.

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	L	D	Win %
Reading		March 18, 1998	March 25, 1998	1	0	1	0	00.00
Reading		October 13, 1999	September 10, 2003	212	102	57	53	48.11
West Ham United		October 20, 2003	December 11, 2006	163	67	58	38	41.10
Charlton Athletic		December 24, 2006	Present	13	5	5	3	38.46

• Alan Pardew profiled by The Observer
• Alan Pardew profile at the League Managers Association
• Alan Pardew career stats at Soccerbase
• Alan Pardew management career stats at Soccerbase

Preceded by Tommy Burns	Reading Manager 1999-2003	Succeeded by Steve Coppell
Preceded by Glenn Roeder	West Ham United Manager 2003-2006	Succeeded by Alan Curbishley
Preceded by Les Reed	Charlton Athletic Manager 2006-	Succeeded by Incumbent

Charlton Athletic F.C. - Current Squad

2 Young | 3 Hreiðarsson | 4 Faye | 5 Reid | 7 M. Bent | 8 Holland | 9 Zheng | 10 D. Bent | 11 Ambrose | 12 Lisbie | 14 Thomas | 15 El Karkouri | 16 Song | 17 Gibbs | 18 Hasselbaink | 19 Rommedahl | 20 Hughes | 22 Bougherra | 23 Diawara | 27 Elliot | 28 Sankofa | 30 Weston | 32 Thatcher | 33 Randolph | 34 Tanska | 35 Ashton | 36 Myhre | 37 Walker | 38 Carson | 39 Gíslason | –– Dickson | Manager: Pardew

Persondata
NAME	Pardew, Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Football manager
DATE OF BIRTH	18 July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wimbledon
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH