Pardew replaces Reed at Charlton
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Pardew replaces Reed at Charlton
Alan Pardew guided West Ham to the FA Cup final
Charlton head coach Les Reed has left the club by mutual consent to be replaced by recently sacked West Ham United manager Alan Pardew.
Pardew has signed a three-and-a-half year deal at the Valley and becomes the team's third manager this season.
Reed was originally drafted in to replace Iain Dowie but has failed to turn the club's fortunes around.
He managed just one victory at the helm and lost to League Two side Wycombe in the Carling Cup quarter-finals.
Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Middlesbrough left Charlton seven points adrift of Premiership safety and in increasing danger of losing their top-flight status for the first time in seven years.
Reed was promoted from his job as assistant manager after Charlton parted company with Dowie 12 games into the Premiership season in the middle of November.
Reed was previously the FA's youth development director
Reed lasted just 41 days in charge - one of the shortest ever Premiership reigns - even though chief executive Peter Varney said his job was not under threat last week.
Dowie himself had only been appointed in the close-season to replace the long-serving Alan Curbishley, who ironically has now taken over from Pardew at Upton Park.
The news was announced at 1900 GMT on Christmas Eve and Charlton say they will make no further comment until holding a press conference at 1330 GMT on Boxing Day.
Their next match is not until Wednesday night when they entertain Fulham.
Curbishley had been in charge at The Valley for 15 years.
Pardew was sacked by West Ham two weeks ago, after just over three years in charge, less than a month after Eggert Magnusson's £85m takeover of the club.
In that time he led them into the Premiership via the play-offs and then last season took them to the FA Cup final where they were seconds away from lifting the trophy against Liverpool.
Steven Gerrard punctured their dream by hammering in a spectacular last-minute equaliser to make the score 3-3 and force a penalty shoot-out which the Hammers lost 3-1.
However, their efforts earned them a place in this season's Uefa Cup but they went out at the first hurdle to Palermo.
Pardew was previously in charge at Reading and, while there, led them into the League's second tier in 2001/02. They reached the play-offs for promotion to the Premiership the following season but failed to go up and early on in the next campaign he moved to Upton Park. -
pardew wun be able to save addicks...
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a bit too late.
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No one can save Charlton's ass now.
After all, Mick McCarthy wasn't able to be of much help when Sunderland were rooted to the bottom in 2002/03.