Pardew før sundagens kamp: ?It?s important because you don?t want to be in the relegation area. It brings extra pressure, of course, and the spotlight is on you whichever those teams are.¨ ?That?s why it?s important to get a real run of games where you get a good run, and you get yourselves away from the bottom where we are.?
?But I have to say, the Premier League is very, very strong this year and any wins that I?ve seen, apart from a few, have been very, very close, and a there?s been a lot of good standard of play right through the division.¨
?We have not got a crisis, but we have one or two we are kind of waiting for ? Riviere, is he going to be available? Papiss, Cheick Tiote ? and I?m not really going to be clear on any of that until tomorrow.¨
¨But we have got players in the group to cope if they don?t make it.¨ ?Rolando, I think, will be back shortly. Davide Santon is some time away. But Ryan Taylor should return this week, and I think if that?s not an inspirational story to everybody here and everybody in football.
¨ That?s because this is a guy who has had terrible, terrible bad luck with cruciate injuries, and he has come back again.?
