Oh no doubt, Pardew was a complete idiot and overreacted. But the shove was not "little" by any stretch, Pardew nearly fell on his ****. How often do you see players shove managers out of the way? About as often as you see managers "headbutting" players. So why is Pardew the only one getting flak when that little douchebag is skating free? And I put headbutting in quotemarks there because honestly there was so little contact that I actually think Pardew was trying to do the whole square up foreheads thing that Boxers love to do.
Not that Pardew isn't in the wrong at all, I fully agree with the fine and stuff, I just really, really hate it when disrespectful little idiots like Meyer play the victim when they quite frankly deserve the reaction they caused. What annoyed me even more was the commentators and Alan Hanson brushing it off too. The commentators didn't even mention it and Hanson, like yourself, brushed it off as nothing. If someone pushed me like that I'd be ****** too even if I'm winning 10-0, it's just completely disrespectful.