article_snippet.sent: Somehow, to the backdrop of supporter unrest, protests and a worst-ever start to a Premier League season, Alan Pardew's managed to excavate five straight victories from a Newcastle side which ranks as their most uninspiring of recent years.
article_snippet.sent: but without that freakish run manufactured by an embattled Alan Pardew's, their would be headed for a second relegation in seven seasons.
article_snippet.sent: Alan Pardew's five-game winning run was crucial to Newcastle's season, who would only be on 20 points .
article_snippet.sent: When Alan Pardew's quit for Crystal Palace at the end of December, Newcastle were ninth.
article_snippet.sent: Alan Pardew's won 26 of those.
article_snippet.sent: Three weeks before embarking on that winning stretch, Alan Pardew's had appeared on the brink of dismissal.
article_snippet.sent: Nonetheless, Alan Pardew's cut a resigned and wounded figure following a 1-0 defeat at Stoke which left Newcastle joint bottom with Burnley.
article_snippet.sent: From the negativity, however, was born a perverse positivity, driven by Alan Pardew's’ s determination to repair a reputation so badly stained that Alan Pardew's next posting would surely have been outside of the Premier League.
article_snippet.sent: Crucially, Alan Pardew's kept Alan Pardew's players on side –
article_snippet.sent: Alan Pardew's, of course, was not without some serious flaws, and it was Alan Pardew's who presided over six straight losses last season.
article_snippet.sent: But in Alan Pardew's absence the club has begun to unravel.
article_snippet.sent: With each passing defeat and demonstration, it becomes more apparent that perhaps Alan Pardew's was not the problem.