Pardew looks to future without bitterness
West Ham boss Alan Pardew has insisted he did not use last year’s play-off defeat as an incentive for this season’s success, declaring: “We hardly mentioned it."
“We’re chuffed, it’s all a team effort and there was a great effort from everyone. We’re back where we belong and it’s important. Everybody kept telling me you have to win but you have to accept there will be failures," said Pardew after his side's 1-0 win against Preston at Cardiff today.
“If you don’t learn you will never progress. There’s nothing I want to say (to critics), people in football get too bitter with things, the more success you get the more criticism you get.
“When it really mattered we won, the players deserve the new tag they have got: Premiership players.”
Of the criticism he has received this season, Pardew added: “That’s my job.”
