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Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew
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Pardew in 2012
Personal information
Full name Alan Scott Pardew
Date of birth (1961-07-18) 18 July 1961 (age 55)
Place of birth Wimbledon, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1981 Whyteleafe
1981–1983 Epsom & Ewell
1983–1984 Corinthian-Casuals
1984–1986 Dulwich Hamlet
1986–1987 Yeovil Town
1987–1991 Crystal Palace 128 (8)
1991–1995 Charlton Athletic 104 (24)
1995 Tottenham Hotspur (loan) 0 (0)
1995–1997 Barnet 67 (0)
1997–1998 Reading 0 (0)
Total 299 (32)
Teams managed
1998 Reading (caretaker)
1999–2003 Reading
2003–2006 West Ham United
2006–2008 Charlton Athletic
2009–2010 Southampton
2010–2014 Newcastle United
2015–2016 Crystal Palace
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Alan Scott Pardew (born 18 July 1961) is an English football manager and former professional player who most recently was the manager of Crystal Palace.

His highest achievements in the sport include reaching the FA Cup Final three times, as a player with Crystal Palace in 1990 and as a manager with West Ham United in 2006 and in 2016 when his Crystal Palace side lost to Manchester United. He has also achieved promotion three times in his career, as a player with Crystal Palace and as a manager with Reading and West Ham. He managed Newcastle United from 2010 to 2014.

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

On 22 December 2016, Pardew was sacked as manager of Crystal Palace after a poor run of results.

Pardew was born in Wimbledon, London. He started his career as a part-time player in non-League football at Whyteleafe and Epsom & Ewell, while working as a glazier. At one stage he gave up football for six months while working in the Middle East, but he returned to football at Corinthian Casuals before later having spells at Dulwich Hamlet and Yeovil Town. Pardew was also in the England Semi-Professional squad during this time.


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