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The Holloway Column Thread

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Phil Bert

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All positive stuff really. Apart from the continued grovelling to Argyle fans, they hate you mate, let it go.

As I said earlier on the other thread, he won't let go! He's back-tracking again to ingratiate himself with the Argyle fans who he pee'd off with his previous rant. For God's sake Ollie, MOVE ON :whistle::whistle::whistle:

Bert

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The Leicester manager gives his inimitable views on football and life in general in his weekly column.

This week he talks about his team's continued struggle in the Championship and the renewed hope the January transfer window will bring.

He also talks about what he will be up to over the festive period, his fullproof plan for Christmas shopping and the plight of the poor turkey.

LEICESTER ON A BAD RUN

We're on the crest of a slump at the moment and I'm expecting a different attitude, a different work ethic.

We play Wolves on Saturday in the televised game. You know what it's like on the telly - everybody does their hair and they get a bit of a lift. We're up against one of the most enthusiastic teams in the division. Mick McCarthy's done a fantastic job and I don't see mine as any different.

Ian Holloway

Now what shall I do with my hair?

He inherited a load of overpaid players and he's brought in some fresh, hungry, enthusiastic players that have lifted the whole club, but he's a long way ahead of me.

I'm still unbelievably upbeat and positive about what this club will have in a year's time. It's tough at the moment but we've got to get a tin hat on, we've got to dig in and we've got to scrap.

ACTIVITY IN THE JANUARY WINDOW?

I expect there will be. I've lifted a couple of kids from our academy and I've told about eight players that I don't want them and sent them away for Christmas.

I won't be spending much time with my family until after the transfer window unfortunately. My poor wife understands that.

I'm talking to my chief scout, Gary Penrice, more than I am to her at the moment. He's been staying over at my house and we're working our socks off to get some players that Leicester City fans will be very, very proud of.

Gary Penrice in his playing days

Move over, Mrs H, there's a new man in town

I might have Christmas Day off after we've done training in the morning but I've never looked forward to four games over the Christmas period so much in my life.

The overall picture doesn't look good but we can do things in the window. How many other clubs down there can do that?

ALL THE BEST TO PLYMOUTH

What I will say is that Plymouth backed me to the hilt and broke their transfer record three times for me last season.

The higher they get in the table, the better I feel about it. But Colchester finished two points above Argyle last season - and look what happened to them last summer. They lost seven players.

I was worried that might happen to Plymouth with only 11,000 gates. Because the better your players play, the more admirers they're going to get and all of a sudden the sharks come swimming.

Paul Sturrock

Just the man for the job

Nothing fills me with more pride than when I see Plymouth beating Watford away - fantastic, they deserve it. Every player plays for that club with so much pride and passion and I hope they get to the Premier League.

There's been an awful lot of horrible things said, an awful lot of untruths spoken, but I'm at Leicester now and I'd like to think the Plymouth fans might wish me well, although I don't think they will.

I left them with probably the best team they've ever had and now they've got a great manager in Paul Sturrock, who's a top bloke, and I wish them all the best.

CHRISTMAS IN THE NEW HOUSE

This is the third Christmas in a row I'll be in a different house. I've had four houses in the last 18 months.

We were shopping the other day and my wife thought 'that's nice but where will I put it?' - she couldn't remember what our rooms looked like, which is a bit worrying!

But we moved into our new house on the Sunday and had the Christmas tree up by the Monday (Dec 3), which isn;t bad going. To be fair, it's been the busiest month of my life and the next two months will be really busy, then hopefully it will settle down a bit

PUNTER'S QUESTION

Sabretooth: "Hi Ollie. Being the father of deaf children, perhaps you can help me out. I'm 21 years old, and I've been getting to know a really nice girl recently. She's sport-mad and we are really into each other. But she's also deaf and I really want to take the relationship further. I'm learning the sign language slowly, but I was wondering if you can give me some ideas for a Christmas present and on how to ask her out?"

Well, not knowing the girl I haven't got a clue about a Christmas present. I've lived with my wife for 20-odd years and I still don't know what to get her!

But it's brilliant that you've met someone. To me it doesn't matter whether you've lost a sense or not - they're still human beings underneath.

606: DEBATE

Ask Ollie a question

Until you learn the language you have to be very visual, smile a lot, be very expressive and you'll get over things. Deaf people are unbelievably receptive to anyone who wants to try and talk to them.

You have to be subtle with your touch when you want to get their attention - just touch them on the outside of their upper arm, otherwise you can jolt them.

And you have to turn the lights on and off if you're in a room to get their attention, or you can bang the floor with your foot so they pick up on the vibration.

But what a wonderful thing for you to want to learn sign language because you've met a wonderful person. I'm proud of you, son.

PUNTER'S QUESTION II

Jonwollufs: "Hi Ollie. After saying you hadn't had time to think about Xmas shopping last week, I saw you Xmas shopping in Loughborough. Would you like to share with us what you had in your bags?"

My poor wife didn't know where she was, she forgot what house we were in and has never liked the worry of Christmas because I've always been too busy and left it too her.

So we sat down, before you saw me, had a cup of coffee, and I made a list of all the people we needed to buy for.

I decided on three shops where I could buy something for everybody - now that's planning!

Unfortunately Loughborough only had one of the shops, so we did a third of it there, then went to Leicester the following day and went to the other two shops. Job done, cash back, back of the net!!!

Alan Partridge

You nicking my sayings again, Holloway?

Now I just need to get in a couple of strikers for Leicester. We're joint-bottom as far as goals scored are concerned and you haven't got to be a genius to work it out.

Get some strikers, get some widemen to create the chances and Leicester will be climbing the table. End of story. And that's the same principle with which I do my Chrismtas shopping.

PUNTER'S QUESTION III

Kernowking: "What's your favourite Christmas carol?"

I don't know if I've got a favourite carol. Good King Wenceslas is probably the one I know best - although I can't spell it!

As for Christmas songs, I like Slade's Merry Christmas - Noddy Holder, he's got some enthusiasm that bloke - and Wizzard was good as well, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday.

And there's that Chris Rea one - Driving Home For Christmas - times I've had to do that.

Slade's Noddy Holder

It's Crissssss-massss!!!

When I was a QPR player I had to go training on Christmas Day. I drove an hour and a half into training, trained for 45 minutes and then drove back home again. And when I put on the car radio, Chris Rea was singing Driving Home For Christmas, which was brilliant.

IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT?

I just want health and happiness for everyone who deserves it. It's a wonderful world, it's a wonderful life and it's just a shame that horrible things happen sometimes.

I really get saddened by the attitudes of some human beings. And why should there be starvation in the world these days when we're all so sophisticated?

Why should there be wars? Why is this still happening if we're a civilised group of people? I just want peace and happiness for everyone.

CHRISTMAS DINNER

We'll be having a traditional Christmas dinner. I shall look forward to preparing it all on Christmas Eve with my good lady, Kim.

We've done it for a few years now and we have a little tot of whisky after we've finished it all. We've got a lovely Marks and Sparks turkey this year with bacon all over. A turkey crown I think it's called.

Roast turkey

Uh-oh, too late!

I do feel guilty every year, though - I'm glad I'm not a turkey! What a horrible thing if you suddenly realised you were a turkey and it's November.

You see yourself in a reflection in the farmyard and you think 'God I'm a turkey and it's nearly Christmas!' What a horrendous thing to realise.

Before I go, I'd just like to wish everyone a great Christmas. HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY! YOURS IN FOOTBALL, HO HO HO!

Ian Holloway was talking to Chris Charle

Simi

Simi

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One of the best reads yet I think, it's always good to have an open manager I think, compared to what we've had in the past with the likes of Kelly. Allen was a breath of fresh air at the time, but that didn't work. I'd much rather have someone that isn't scared to voice an opinion in the media than Rob "re-double our efforts" Kelly.

Matt

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I just wonder if the players understand the phrase "Shop Window" because some players days are numbered at this club, they have 3 matches to put abit of doubt to what Holloway does with them, although i'd be to little to late for them really.

Although tbh I hope Holloway does send certain players away and tell them not to come back and no other clubs will touch them with a bargepole and there careers are over, because they don't deserve any of there careers after some certain players performances.

davieG

davieG

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Ollie Quote!

"I've never seen such an unbalanced squad. We had a six-a-side game in training and it was goalkeepers versus right-backs. But I will sort that out and then we can move on."

:crylaugh:

Zingari

Zingari

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Ollie Quote!

:crylaugh:

just shows what a cr*p manager he is , if he had any tactical nous he would have had 3 of each on both sides :D

Bluemoon

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Olly made it in to the papers over here again about The scout (name escapes me) moving in with him funny stuff

I wish the idiot would spend more time concentrating on matters on the field...........the guy is an embarasment.

The scout is Gary Penrice. Another of Ollie's crew is Des Bulpin.....he's not buying a house in Leicester because he reckons he won't be here long enough!!!........what??!!

lildave3

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I wish the idiot would spend more time concentrating on matters on the field...........the guy is an embarasment.

The scout is Gary Penrice. Another of Ollie's crew is Des Bulpin.....he's not buying a house in Leicester because he reckons he won't be here long enough!!!........what??!!

**** off.

Babylon

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I wish the idiot would spend more time concentrating on matters on the field...........the guy is an embarasment.

The scout is Gary Penrice. Another of Ollie's crew is Des Bulpin.....he's not buying a house in Leicester because he reckons he won't be here long enough!!!........what??!!

You're the embarrassment, actually believing a story of a Plymouth site that was along the lines of "My Uncles, next door neighbours 2nd cousin says...."

Simi

Simi

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That was yesterday you clod. :P Wasn't it? Back page of the Mercury seemed to think so but then I guess that means nothing.

:dunno:

Something from Matty Fryatts blog.

Hi all.

I hope this is of interest to you - it's from Matty Fryatt's personal 'diary' and is about the weekend's game. Hope you like:

We can outfox the Saints at St Mary's

I thought we would have been higher in the table than we are now. Over Christmas I think we deserved more points than what we actually got to be honest. Playing against Wolves was alright, then we beat Ipswich and against Charlton we couldn’t hold out for the win. Losing to QPR the other day was very disappointing, we didn’t expect to go there and play as poorly as we did. I think we will start picking up though because in the three games prior to that we were playing well. We really need to start moving up the table now and we definitely don’t want a repeat of the QPR game

The new manager has identified a lot of problems and started straightening them out, but it takes a while for things to take shape. He's brought in some new faces already in Barry Hayles and Steve Howard. That makes it a lot of strikers at Leicester now; including myself, Iain Hume, Elvis Hammond and DJ Campbell. I'm sure there will be a few more additions over the transfer window as well. I'm not going to say I'm not worried about my place, obviously not all of you can play at the same time and you all want to. There's more pressure to perform but you have to get on with it and prove that you are the best. You want everyone firing on all cylinders and competition is good for the game. If you aren’t up for it then you aren’t good enough to be playing.

Today Ian Holloway became our longest serving manager of the season. It's a bit of a weird stat considering the time he has been here. The amount of managers we have had is crazy really. You never get used to having so many. It's more frustrating for us players who have been here for a long time. It's not anything to do with the managers themselves; it's more that things are always changing according to their preferences. You never get a consistency with what your role involves. You have to get on with it, but you want a bit of stability. Everyone is sacking everyone in football these days, it's mad.

The manager is quite a character, you read some of his quotes and his character comes out, but there is a serious side to him as well. After games when we haven’t performed as well as we should, you can't be laughing and joking can you? He does have a stern side but generally he is a bubbly character and we can have a joke with him.

We've got Southampton in the FA Cup this weekend. Southampton away is not quite as glamorous as getting a big Premiership club but we can't really complain after playing Aston Villa and Chelsea in the Carling Cup this season. We got a bit lucky with those draws really. It would have been nice to play a Premiership side in the FA Cup as well, but so be it. We can't be greedy.

We did well to beat Villa 1-0 and the 4-3 defeat at Stamford Bridge gave us a lot to be proud of, and hopefully we'll do well against the Saints. A lot of our focus is on the league, but sometimes it's good to get a cup run going because you never know what might come of it. A win in the cup can relieve the pressure and boost your confidence so we'll be intent on winning on Saturday. We need to get those wins back on track.

The Stig

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leicster city are wank come on stoke. holloway fooking you up support a proper team you sad bunch of tossers

Good point, you're exactly right, i'm going to support Stoke now. What an intellient person you are. Thank you for coming on to our forum, you've made a valued contribution.

Bert

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The Leicester manager gives his inimitable views on football and life in general in his weekly column.

This week he talks about his frustration over the transfer window and 'racking and stacking'.

He also gives his views on the sacking of Big Sam and reveals why he was called 'Stinger' and whom he would trust with his wife naked!

BUSY IN THE TRANSFER MARKET?

I'd like to get even busier. The transfer window is crazy - it doesn't make sense. It's like your car breaking down in October and you can't go and repair it until January.

In the past if I've needed a player at any time I could have gone out there very calmly, rung a few clubs and got one. We're still playing games during that time, so we're risking injury to our players.

Now, when you ring up about someone in January, you find everybody else is in the hat for them.

I've been at Leicester seven weeks. We invested up to £2m in DJ Campbell and I haven't had him in any of those games that we've played. He hasn't been fit.

Thank God he trained Thursday morning - hall-e-lullah! He was on the pitch, he had his boots on, I couldn't believe it.

Broken-down car

I'll bring it back in January, sir

But how the hell are you supposed to know who's going to be injured? I mean what are we, clairvoyants as well?

You think that every week when someone says: "How are we going to get on today?"

That's the most-asked question ever of a supporter to a manager - "All right Ollie, how are we going to get on today?" - "Er, I don't know!"

STACKING AND RACKING

Who is this transfer window supposed to benefit, the young players? I heard Tony Cottee talking about that on the telly the other day and I was shouting: "What are you on about, Tone?!"

Because the talented young players have all been nicked and stacked and racked at the four best clubs in the land. Even Everton are getting in on the act. They bought young Danny Gosling from Plymouth and David Moyes said he was 'one for the future'.

So they buy them all and won't loan them out. They've all got massive squads - I think Man Utd have got 75 players - so how the hell are they ever going to play them all?

I've just had to get two Hungarians because I can't get the best English players - they're all tucked away at 15, 16. And when you've got a transfer window in place these clubs aren't going to loan them out.

Arsene Wenger keeps his and bloods them in these other competitions, which is great, but then he's got another whole team of youngsters under that one that he won't loan out.

I should be able to borrow God knows who from somewhere else so they can play in the Championship instead of in the reserves and academy teams, which are holding them all back.

Dearie, dearie me, the whole thing's gone mad. Who's going to wake up one morning and say "Whoah, wait a minute, that is dramatically wrong, it's not working, so why don't we just go back to what they did in England before, which was fantastic."?

Welcome to the mad world! Caused by Fifa or Uefa or whoever it is - what an absolute joke.

BYE BYE BIG SAM

Oh yeah you can build a club from top to bottom in eight months, can't you?

They've judged Big Sam on what the first team are doing. It's the structure he was trying to put in place, like he did at Bolton, that really matters.

Having said that, he didn't really have the chemistry with the fans from the start, did he? It wasn't looking like a good marriage from day one.

His ego will be smarting but that man is a fantastic manager. What he did at Bolton was superb, I think he would have been superb at Newcastle, too, given time.

Sam Allardyce

Wham bam thank you Sam

But how many times has he had Michael Owen available to him since he's been there? And should we really be judging him after a handful of games? What is going on?

The thing is, if you're on a dodgy wicket anyway with football fans on the telly screaming and shouting "You don't know what you're doing", then it all gets blown out of proportion. Plus the fact he wasn't the chairman's pick.

But for me he's still the same manager who was in the running to be England boss. What he did at Bolton was absolutely outstanding - and they have struggled like hell since he's been gone, no matter what Mr Gartside says.

WHO WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR WIFE NAKED WITH?

David Beckham said this week he trusts Gary Neville so much he would leave him in a room with wife Victoria naked.

I'd probably leave my wife naked with my chief scout Gary Penrice - but he's the only one I would. That's how well I know him and it's great to have one real good mate.

To be fair, I don't think my wife would be naked with anybody anyway - she hardly ever gets naked with me! I don't blame her really, with a face like mine.

And I've nearly had a divorce because I'm speaking to Penrice more than I am to her. I actually forgot her birthday last Saturday, which is absolutely unforgivable.

Gary Penrice in his playing days

Does Mrs H know about this?

She got up and made me a cup of tea in the morning and I said 'What date is it today?' and she said 'It's my birthday'. I thought it was the fifth and unfortunately it was the sixth so I was in deep, deep trouble.

I don't know if she's forgiven me yet - I can still see some burning embers of hatred.

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