Those statistics are rather distorting though given that over half of Hughton's matches in charge of Newcastle were while the team was in the Championship whereas Pardew has been at Newcastle twice the amount of time and spent all of it in the Premier League. So naturally his win ratio will be...
Pardew hasn't done an especially bad job at Newcastle really. His problem is that he has carried the can for some things beyond his remit, particularly a lack of investment from Mike Ashley and a transfer policy that Ashley and Alan Carr's father have overseen which has provided them with mixed...