I don't think that Parish's crystal ball foresaw that Souare would suffer a devastating car crash or that our more than adequate defence would turn into frightened rabbits.

I attribute blame to Parish for not sacking Pardew earlier but not for his supposed lack of purchases as let's not forget that when the transfer window closed the general consensus was that this was our best window yet. Benteke was a brilliant buy and exchanging that useless Gayle for a current England international was a blinding bit of business. OK we can all be wise after the event but that's not what we were saying at the end of August