Alan Pardew ­revealed his two-goal saviour Papiss Cisse should not have even played against Hull yesterday.

The under-fire Toon boss was ­bracing himself for a huge fan backlash as Newcastle trailed to Steve Bruce’s stars, after fabulous strikes from Nikica Jelavic and Mohamed Diame.

But he gambled by sending on ­barely-fit Cisse and the Senegal striker – out since April with a ­broken knee cap – delivered two ­priceless goals to earn a 2-2 draw , and keep Pards in the job for another week at least.

Cisse’s double cheered the Toon Army who pulled out of a full-scale protest against Pardew’s reign – and left the beleaguered boss happy with his gamble.

Pardew admitted: “He shouldn’t have played today, really.

“My medical staff didn’t agree that he should be included – I think he has trained five days. But when you are experienced – myself and John Carver looked at each other on Thursday, and your eye tells you sometimes that the player is fresh, he’s bright.

“Of course he’s not ready for 90 minutes, but he knows how to carry the jersey.

“That’s why I feel some sympathy today for Manu Riviere because he has had to carry the shirt and he’s not ready yet to carry that shirt full-time.

“The No.9 shirt is heavy and he has seen an example from Papiss to take that chance to make that little ­movement in the box.”

Cisse celebrated his goals with a message for cancer sufferer Jonas Gutierrez under his shirt.

His shirt said ‘Always looking ­forward Jonas’– and Pardew revealed the plight of their team-mate had brought unity to the dressing room.

Pardew added: “It’s something that in a strange way can bring players together. I felt that for all we had to put up with this week and in the week before the Southampton game, some of it was really, really unfair.

“I said to the players, ‘You can’t moan about it because we have brought it on ourselves, we set ourselves up at Southampton for this sort of criticism and you have to learn to take it’.

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You either can’t handle it – then don’t play for this football club – or you handle it and I think they proved that today in very, very difficult ­circumstances.

“The players came through all the ­criticism of how bad they were at Southampton plus the negativity of today, and that will stand them in good stead to be Newcastle players.”

However Hull boss Bruce was left utterly deflated by the late levellers.

He groaned: “This feels like a ­defeat. We made three horrible ­mistakes and if you do this at this level you get ­punished.’’

West Ham inflicted a third defeat in five Premier League games on Liverpool at Upton Park.

Goals from Winston Reid, Diafra Sakho and Morgan Amalfitano on his debut had Hammers boss Sam Allarldyce crowing: “Liverpool didn’t have an off-day – we were brilliant. We really took them by surprise in the first half and could have had four or five goals by the break.

“We’ve been looking at the quality of our finishing and trying to improve it.’’

West Ham were two goals up inside 10 minutes and although Raheem Sterling did pull one back following great skill from Mario Balotelli, it wasn’t enough to stop West Ham ­bagging their first home win of the season.