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Pardew has plenty to smile about

With another round of the 2015-16 Premier League season done and dusted, Iain Macintosh runs the rule over the Heroes and Villains of the weekend.

HEROES

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew just about managed to keep a straight face in public. Imagine what his face would have looked like in private. Imagine the celebrations after his side's 5-1 destruction of Newcastle United on Saturday. After the manner of his exit from St James' Park at the end of last year, following months of abuse from the stands, surely nobody could be as satisfied with one result as Pardew would have been with this.