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Reading manager Brian McDermottThere was plenty of Newcastle chat on Goals on Sunday this morning after the Magpies climbed into the top four with their comfortable win over Stoke and recently promoted Reading manager Brian McDermott contributed to that and called Alan Pardew a ‘disgrace’, but in a good way!

Alan Pardew and Brian McDermott are good friends and both are having a good time of it at the moment. Newcastle are obviously battling to get into the Champions League next season, while McDermott’s Reading have put last season’s play-off final defeat disappointment behind them and won the Championship title outright to secure promotion to the Premier League.

Like many managers, McDermott only has good things to say about Pardew. When Alan was in his first managerial job at Reading, he answered McDermott’s wishes to give him a job and employed him as Chief Scout in September 2000. From there McDermott has progressed through the ranks and nine years later got the managerial job, taking him less than three years to secure promotion.

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One thing that McDermott emphasised was how much fun it was to work under Pardew and just like now, he enjoyed going to work every day. That sense of fun is something Pardew has instilled at Newcastle and it’s clear to see that the Newcastle players are enjoying their football and enjoying playing with each other, which can only help them play better.

There is still plenty of banter between Pardew and McDermott, with Goals on Sunday presenter Chris Kamara watching the Newcastle match yesterday and then chatting to Alan afterwards. He asked Alan for a few stories about Brian and although none of them could be broadcast, he did say that McDermott was a mean guitar player.

Kamara being the joker that he is then whipped out a guitar and asked Brian McDermott to give him a tune, namely Ralph McTell’s ‘Streets of London’. McDermott declined and then jokingly said that Alan Pardew was a disgrace! There should be some good games between Newcastle and Reading in the Premier League next season, that’s for sure.

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