Why Alan Pardew knows he will be butt of jokes as he heads back to Hull | Louise Taylor

Dec 09, 2016

Crystal Palace manager disgraced himself by head-butting David Meyler at the KCom Stadium when in charge of a listing Newcastle United in 2014, and his Selhurst Park reign looks to be in similarly choppy waters

Alan Pardew does not really do sheepish but if and, almost certainly when, he comes face to face with David Meyler on Saturday Crystal Palace’s invariably assured manager will surely look a little uncomfortable.

There might be a slightly awkward handshake and, perhaps, a rueful smile as Pardew returns to the scene of the ‘crime’ and relives the awful afternoon of 1 March 2014 when he inexplicably head-butted the Hull City midfielder.

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