Alan Pardew
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"Alan Scott Pardew" is an English Manager (association football)/manager and former Association football/footballer who manages Crystal Palace F.C./Crystal Palace.

His highest achievements in the sport include reaching the FA Cup FA Cup Final/Final twice, as a player with Crystal Palace in 1990 and as a manager with West Ham United F.C./West Ham United in 2006, though he ended up on the losing side on both occasions. He has also achieved promotion and relegation/promotion three times in his career, as a player with Crystal Palace and as a manager with Reading F.C./Reading and West Ham. He managed Newcastle United F.C./Newcastle United from 2010 to 2014.

As manager of Newcastle, he won both the Premier League Manager of the Season and the League Managers Association Awards#LMA Manager of the Year/LMA Manager of the Year awards for the 2011–12 Premier League/2011–12 season after guiding the Magpies to UEFA Europa League/European football for the first time since the club's return to the Premier League.

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It's a hamstring so he's going to be sweating right up until the final.

It was a very important win for us. We are determined to make a statement as a squad that we are good enough to finish as high as possible in the league and win that game next Sunday.

We will have a chance as a team and as fans to pay our respects to John in front of the whole country and that's really good. I hope for . . . John Lyall that we play the way that we can because that would be fitting.

He was world class. I think we knew that Chelsea were gearing up for this game after they had been some criticism at their door. The 10 players they had showed world class performances today.

I put one word on my notes today, that was 'destiny'. I'm pleased for their families who have lost two people. So for the two families of Greenwood and Lyall - that was for you.

It's not too bad, but he's certainly likely to miss the next couple of games.

It's been an absolutely fantastic season. It's a fantastic achievement for a club that's been promoted.

The second half we pushed our full-backs up a bit and created the tempo. The players dug themselves out of a hole.

We must produce better English players and then promote them. I'm not the only one with that view. I'm just the one who said it. People are speaking about it ... but naturally the bigger clubs are against that because it will weaken their teams.