Alan Pardew has chairman’s backing before critical fixture at Hull City

• Steve Parish: Crystal Palace manager’s job is ‘totally safe’
•’If we’re in crisis then there are a lot of clubs in crisis’Alan Pardew has received public backing from his chairman at Crystal Palace, Steve Parish, but will go into the critical fixture at Hull City this weekend acutely aware he still faces a battle to convince the club’s investors that he is the right man to remain in charge.Palace checked a run of six successive defeats with a