Believe that Pardew said that clean sheets have "Never" been his priority.I believe he is trying to give an insight to his overall football philosophy rather than trying to say that somehow he had adopted this stance to suit the current situation at the club.

I think, Willo, whatever he may have or have not meant, in light of his recent record, he may, on reflection, have considered it politic not to tell the media that "clean sheets have never been the top of my priority", don't you think?

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Also, I don't want to end up in the championship, stuck with that kind of wage bill.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Sorry Willo, I assumed that you'd seen it:

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Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Maybe AP has forgotten football is a game where you score at one end but stop your opponents scoring at the other end!

What we do (at home anyway) is

- We pass it across the back building up possession stats, whilst making mistakes and inviting them to close us down. Something we don't do.

- Concede 1st. That means we then are able to attack once the opposition sit on their goal for 10 mins. Which is what we never do now.

- Attack slowly once all of their men are behind the ball so we struggle to find spaces between the lines, although I don't actually see us trying that much.

I'd like to think having a number 10 would mean we could solve our problems but it won't. All those who did cartwheels after signing Benteke and ignored the fat we're now lighter in def mid and defence apart from the signing of an unavailable and panic at the last minute Flamini must now see some errors were made and even they aren't an excuse.

We went into the season with Jedi out and an unavailable Flamini in. 6 defenders and Fryers so Souare isn't an excuse. So less selections but there's less attention to defence and detail when there are enough selections. So the excuses are running thin now.

COYP