Pardew told to pack his Baggies

London – Alan Pardew paid the price for a club record eight successive Premier League defeats by leaving his managerial role at West Bromwich Albion by mutual consent yesterday.

The 56-year-old had only been at the club for four months after replacing Tony Pulis, but failed to revive their fortunes and he leaves them bottom of the table 10 points adrift of safety with just six games remaining.

Three of those matches are against Champions League chasing trio Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.

“First-team coach Darren Moore has been placed in charge of first team affairs until further notice. The Club will not be making any further comment at this time,” read a club statement on the Baggies’ website.

Pardew – whose last managerial job saw him sacked as Crystal Palace manager in the 2016/17 campaign months after taking them to the FA Cup final – replaced Pulis after the club had failed to win in 10 matches.

His cause was not helped by his players off-the-field behaviour either. Four senior players – including defender Jonny Evans and midfielder Jake Livermore – broke a team curfew while on a warm weather training camp in Barcelona in February and stole a taxi.

Pardew, a former Reading team-mate of West Brom technical director Nick Hammond, was the club’s sixth manager since 2011.

They won just once in 18 league games under him, and took only eight points from a possible 54.

Pardew’s departure comes six weeks after the club sacked chairman John Williams and chief executive Martin Goodman. – AFP