Pardew: Tenerife trip not to blame for cup exit

Alan Pardew refused to blame Newcastle’s limp FA Cup display at Brighton on their midweek trip to Tenerife.

Pictures emerged in a newspaper yesterday morning of Pardew and some of his players apparently enjoying the local nightlife at their warm weather training camp, just a few days before they crashed out 1-0 to the npower Championship side.

But Magpies boss Pardew said: “I don’t think there is any correlation with that at all, to be honest.”