He tore down the touchline and also threw himself in amongst the delirious fans, emerging with his jacket, shirt and tie dishevelled before making his way back to the dugout where he tidied himself up.
"It's difficult when you do something like that. I've had a couple of occasions in the past where I've jumped in the crowd.
"It's just a natural thing I wanted to do at that time with the fans. It was for them really as it's not been our greatest season."
Asked if he was worried the fans would not let him go, Pardew replied jokingly: "I did check my pockets after in case one of them wasn't a Newcastle fan, but fortunately my money was still there."
However he is taking nothing for granted as he said: "I think you need a lot of points this year to be safe, but I think we are fine, although you never know.
"At least we've a very good goal difference compared to other teams, so that is important, but of course we would like a few more wins."
No comments:
Post a Comment