Nick Price<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cSepp Blatter and all of them lot, Mr Platini, I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don\u2019t think. I think he\u2019s useless, you can quote me on that. Wait till I get home and tell my turkeys we’re moving Christmas.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nHolloway gives his measured response to the news that Qatar have been selected to host the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony Pulis uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory\u2019s throw.<\/span><\/strong> Call that cinnamon and he\u2019s got a cinnamon flavoured cake.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe madcap boss describes Stoke City as a cake. Presumably a cheap one only liked by a few people and with not much icing on the top.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s been an absolute living nightmare, to be honest. It is just ludicrous, I don\u2019t see who it benefits at all.<\/span><\/strong> When my wife\u2019s shopping, we need some milk and bread on a regular basis. We can\u2019t buy it all at the start and then wait until January because it would have all gone off.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nOllie gives his take on the transfer window. Carrying on his shopping metaphor, we imagine mouldy January loan signing James Beattie needs to be thrown out as he was past his sell-by date when they brought him to Bloomfield Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he\u2019s only worth \u00a34 million, then I\u2019m a Scotsman called MacTavish.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHolloway reacts the only way he knows how \u2013 with a bizarre quip \u2013 when the vultures circled to swoop for Charlie Adam in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cDream on! If they want to insult me by only offering \u00a33.5m and then get it all over the paper and try to upset me well, sorry, they\u2019re barking up the wrong tree, they\u2019re messing with the wrong dog and I\u2019ll come and bite them.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
More mixed metaphors, this time about Aston Villa trying to sign Adam on the cheap.<\/p>\n
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No January move for you |<\/strong> In no small part due to Holloway’s motormouth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cI\u2019ve killed some of my cockerels this week. I like living where I\u2019m living and I ended up with 14 of them. I had to stand on a broom and I had to do something that took their life away. If I was soft and hadn\u2019t done the first one, I couldn\u2019t have carried on and done the rest of them.<\/strong><\/span> I think if we did anything wrong today we didn\u2019t step on the broom and we didn\u2019t pull hard enough at the right time in the game to get us the win I felt we could get.<\/strong><\/span> So well done to West Brom. Not only did they get up, they ran off and took our female cockerels away from us, didn\u2019t they? So you get what I\u2019m saying?”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
No, no we don’t get what you’re saying at all.
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\u201cI told him what a cracking lady his mum was and how much we all miss her and how proud I am of him and his brother.<\/strong><\/span> Because I\u2019m a common bloke and he reminds me of an ordinary bloke you\u2019d meet in the street… I told him to leave our women alone tonight if he goes out!”<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nWise advice for Prince William ahead of a stag do in Blackpool. One imagines his highness didn’t go the night club with the revolving dance floor and threw up in the toilets after one too many Cheeky Vimtos like I did.<\/div>\n
\u201cOn a looks front my wife\u2019s got a lot more about her than H but on a managerial front he takes some beating.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nIan reveals his respect for his old mate Harry Redknapp by comparing him to his wife, though saying she’s only “a lot more” attractive than the Tottenham boss isn’t a particularly nice compliment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSir David Beckham? You\u2019re having a laugh. He\u2019s just a good footballer with a famous bird. Can you imagine if Posh was called Lady Beckham? We\u2019d never hear the end of it!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHolloway mocks talk of the former England captain receiving a knighthood.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cWhy haven\u2019t they got cameras? The officials can speak to each other easily enough now. Why aren\u2019t we using laptops that are linked up and can give a decision in five seconds? A chimpanzee could do it \u2013 with not much training.<\/span> We might as well go back to being cavemen, grab our girl by the hair, drag her into the cave whether she wants to come in or not because we may as well live in that age. We\u2019ve come forward, haven\u2019t we?\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe world has come forward, we’ll give you that Ian, but we’re not entirely sure that you have evolved quite like the rest of us.<\/p>\n
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The Seasiders boss hits back at a journalist and reveals his respect for Blackpool’s iconic animal.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone\u2019 is one of my dad\u2019s favourite songs; he\u2019s no longer with us and I was singing it with\u00a0them.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHolloway got involved in a sing along with the Liverpool fans when he took Blackpool to Anfield.<\/p>\n
“When you’ve got nine back, you do not expect to let three in, so I’ll have to look at that.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHolloway shows he isn’t the sharpest tool in the box when it comes to arranging a defence after his side shipped five in defeat to Everton.<\/p>\n
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Ian reveals his love for the late king of pop, who has been commemorated at Craven Cottage with a tacky statue that looks like a giant, movie tie-in shampoo bottle.<\/p>\n
“We’re not even David and Goliath, we’re like a gladiator going into the arena with a toothpick. I might come up against a sword and a shield but we aren’t half having a stab at it and I need the lads to keep believing.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nRallying the troops and sharpening the toothpicks after losing to Arsenal.<\/p>\n
“There’s only one word for me: pride. We needed to play well and we did against a fantastic side and you can see the improvement my club has made. We believe in ourselves again. We’ve had a little wobble but there’s a few games to play yet.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nHolloway speaks a little prematurely after Blackpool battle \u2013 and Adam snaps Gareth Bale’s ankle \u2013 for a point at Tottenham.<\/p>\n
“They will be relieved if we lose and get relegated. Then I am not badgering them.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThe paranoid gaffer thinks the Premier League wanted his side to go down, which they almost certainly didn’t, but they probably didn’t like him ringing up every day to whinge and moan about anything and everything.<\/p>\n
“Sir Alex Ferguson is a winner. He would never dream of not being interested in winning any match. That man deserves to pick whatever team he wants to pick. No one should question it.<\/span> Look at his record. Those people running the game, what planet are they on? They must have beamed down from planet Zarf. They are not in the right world.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Holloway defends the Manchester United boss and invents his own new planet. We’re probably not the only one’s thinking that the Blackpool manager himself must have come from a different solar system altogether.
“It will be the end of the world.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nWhen asked how relegation would affect him, although…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“I’ve always been an eternal optimist.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And we like that, Ian.<\/p>\n
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Mad cap |<\/strong> All the best, Ian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u201cThe fat lady has finished singing and unfortunately I don’t like her tune. That’s it in football. You’re famous for two seconds in football and then you’re gone.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The eccentric boss bows out of the Premier League in typical style. Godspeed, you loveable rogue.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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