Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew has been ranked fourth in Four Four Two’s Premier League manager power rankings for the 2014/15 season with him just coming on top of former Eagles boss Tony Pulis.
The 53-year-old took over from Neil Warnock in January after the former was sacked by Crystal Palace after their Boxing Day defeat to Southampton, adding to an ever-growing winless run that lasted too long and was seeing Palace slide deeper into a relegation battle with many pundits and fans predicting a more than certain relegation at the end of the season.
To the contrary though, former Eagles player Alan Pardew kept the club up with a number of games to spare with late season victories over Manchester City at Selhurst Park and Liverpool at Anfield for Steven Gerrard’s final Premier League game at the stadium that many have seen him play his trade in for what seems like a lifetime.
Four Four Two contributor Joe Brewin complied the rankings and had the following to say about Pardew’s season both at Newcastle and then Crystal Palace:
“Not everyone was convinced by a dishevelled Pards ditching Newcastle for a relegation-threatened Palace side bemoaning one win from their last 14 league games, but in reality it made sense. He was universally hated on Tyneside for pandering to Mike Ashley’s needs, after all, and followed one of the best men possible into the Selhurst hot seat in Neil Warnock. It wasn’t going to get worse for them.
But as it happened, it got a little bit better than that – if the season had started when Pards took over at Selhurst, Palace would be sixth in a table, thanks to a blistering start of three wins in his first four matches, then four on the trot between March and April. Onwards and upwards for the Eagles.”
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