Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.

Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.