If you did that to a client, you'd be gone. Footballers get away with it because they are notoriously thick as pigshit. They get a ban and massive fine instead, intelligence, at least in traditional measurement, is not required... But of a manager and tactician? Who wants a thick as pigshit boss?
Football players don't get massive fines for handbags, Remy was banned for 3 games I don't remember any massive fine, standard red card action, what about the player who goes in 2 footed and breaks their opponents leg how does that stack up, Roy Keane comes to mind and yet he was allowed to manage teams and still would be allowed to. Football is about opponents not clients, it's a battle and some of the things that went on during the match today were physically worse than Pardew's actions, the referee got a few things wrong and missed some totally.
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