Alan Scott Pardew is an English manager and former footballer who manages Newcastle United. His highest achievements in the sport include reaching the FA Cup Final twice, as a player with Crystal Palace in 1990 and as a manager with West Ham United in 2006, though he ended up on the losing side on both occasions. He has also achieved promotion three times in his career, as a player with Crystal Palace and as a manager with Reading and West Ham. As manager of Newcastle, he won both the Premier League Manager of the Season and the LMA Manager of the Year awards for the 2011?12 season after guiding the Magpies to European football for the first time since the club's return to the Premier League. He is currently the second longest serving manager in the Premier League, having managed Newcastle since 9 December 2010 and is only surpassed by Ars�ne Wenger. 

July 18th, 1961 in Wimbledon (Age 63)