Pardew slams Cup fixture pile-up

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West Ham manager Alan Pardew is furious at the fixture congestion facing his side as a result of their FA Cup fifth round replay win over Bolton.

His side take on Portsmouth in the Premiership on Saturday before going to Manchester City to play in Monday night's Cup quarter-final.

"Having to play this replay, a league game and a sixth round tie in five days is, I feel, too demanding," he said.

"We have a massive turnaround for Saturday's game let alone Monday."

City beat Aston Villa in their fifth round replay on Tuesday and Pardew added: "We have one day to prepare and it is very difficult to get the message through to the players.

"Both sides will have no preparation, both sides will be on automatic and both Stuart Pearce and I will be standing on the sidelines hoping it goes for us.

Source: BBC

Playing three games in five days is just madness! This is worse than the Christmas fixture pile-up!

[chavslav]

same for city though,be a tough game up there, the best we can hope for is a replay an bring em back.......