Pard gets a reprieve
FROM BACK PAGE West Brom appear to be dropping into the Championship with barely a whimper.
Pardew looked a broken man after Saturday’s shocking home defeat by Huddersfield that had fans streaming out of The Hawthorns amid calls for him to be sacked.
The trip to Watford on Saturday is now key for Pardew.
Guochuan, who sacked Tony Pulis in November, seriously considered axing the manager but, with possible replacements thin on the ground, he was advised to give him one last chance to lift the team.
Stoke found it difficult to find a new manager when Mark Hughes was sacked in November and Albion fear the same problem.
Baggies, six points adrift at the bottom, have won only three Premier League games out of 28 this season and have to face Liverpool, Spurs and Manchester United in their last five games.
ALAN PARDEW will get one more game to keep his job at West Brom.
Talks between the club’s Chinese owner Guochuan Lai and chief executive Mark Jenkins yesterday gave boss Pardew a reprieve, even though