Tenacity, nonsense and despair

Just when you had almost forgotten Alan Pardew he's kindly reminded us what an absolute plank he really is by making some ill-judged and truly offensive remarks on MotD2 last Sunday. Frankly I'm not that surprised he's put his foot in his mouth, he always struck me as one of the great exponents of the gormless post-match comment, splitting infinitives at will and mixing his tenses with the best of them (Peter Reid was the master of this particular art: 'He's went in there like a dose of salts, to be fair' etc). What's more surprising is that he's been asked for an expert opinion on football. Clearly the man's out of his depth when quizzed about such matters, to be fair.