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Pardew: “I’m not going to put out teams just to look at fringe players”

April 16th, 2011 | 34 Comments |

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew
Preparing the totem pole for Man United
Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has said that fringe players won’t be played just to get a look at them and insists that he’ll be putting out his strongest squad until the end of the season.

On Tuesday we’re hosting some little team of no-hopers from Manchester. I think they call themselves ‘United’, although I’m not sure.

The Alan Pardew Project has been talking about how he thinks the Manchester United manager might approach the game:

“Alex will be looking at it and thinking it’s a really big game on their agenda.

“He’s got us and Arsenal away, and he probably thinks they’re two tough games which will have a massive bearing on their season.

“I think he will target it. He won’t come here resting players because it’s the Premier League, not the FA Cup semi-final, and that’s their priority.

“He will police today’s semi-final and if he can save players for Tuesday, or take someone off to protect them, he will.

“They will be a really tough team to beat, but we’re really looking forward to it. We hope this is a difficult place for them to come. We’ve beaten Liverpool here in my first game, and we want another scalp.” (more…)