Jon Parkin didn't get on with Malky

[J R Hartley]

Yup, pretty much, although he was never prolific at Championship level and i don't think that managers bought him exclusively for his goalscoring ability. What didn't help him was the change to one striker, he was never going to be able to play like that.

Listening to the podcast it was clear Pulis liked him. Even when he didn’t fit in his plans at PL level he asked him to stay at Stoke as he was good to have around the place but Parkin wanted to play.

Listening to Parkin he’s a straight shooter and says he would rather just be told you ain’t part of the plans rather than be made a Cnut out of. Sounded like he had an issue with Phil Brown and Malky because of this. 2 arrogant managers who thought they were better than they were.