Stoke City boss Mark Hughes has sympathy for Newcastle United counterpart Alan Pardew.
Pardew has faced vehement protests from Magpies fans calling for him to be sacked following the club's wretched start to the season as they are currently bottom of the Barclays Premier League with no wins and just three points from five games.
"It's a difficult business we're in and you don't like to see a fellow manager under pressure like that," said Hughes.
"But Alan's a very experienced Premier League manager. He's been there a long time in charge of a big club with big demands and big expectations.
"I seem to recall he's been through similar periods before and he's come out the other side, so it shows he has the capacity and ability to turn the situation around.
"They've started doing that by coming back from a difficult situation in the league, and then they had a great result in midweek, so their confidence is probably higher than it was two games ago.
"From our point of view it's a bit of a shame they will have had that turn in confidence with those two performances.
"We will have to be mindful of that, but we just want to take care of our own business.
"If that adds to the pressure Alan seems to be under he understands that's what we have to do."
