QPR boss Harry Redknapp believes Newcastle owner Mike Ashley has been a positive influence on the Toon and reckons Alan Pardew would have been sacked by now under a foreign owner. "The chairman has been fantastic," said Redknapp, whose side play Newcastle on Saturday. The Magpies have gone from bottom on 22 September to eighth in the table.
"He gets a lot of stick, Mike Ashley, but he's always at the games in the crowd."
He added: "It doesn't really matter if you've got a contract - there will be a clause in it and 99 times out of 100, if they sack you that will probably pay you a year's money.
"The difference is probably because he's a British owner. Lots of the foreign owners would look at bringing a foreign manager in because maybe he's been a better player than Alan Pardew was and they played in Italy or Spain."
