Gavi is embraced by his Barcelona team-mates and coaches as the midfielder visits their training ground for the first time since season-ending injury One of the managers did ask me, ‘What are you going to do when you can’t dominate possession?’ That was Arsene Wenger. I said, ‘Well, probably lose.’ But in my career I had to learn. Holloway is too modest to accept the Pep comparison. He is, however, an advocate. “He is a magnificent man, so driven. And he knows how to deal with top-class players, treating them as ordinary people. His empathy for his players, how he gets them to conform yet maximise what they are. You get found out if you have a doubt about yourself. The top managers don’t have any, or if they do they shake it out. They are superhuman.” Holloway found the managers he spoke to were more willing to open up to him because they knew he too had ridden the extraordinary rollercoaster of euphoric highs and soul-crushing lows that come with this unique profession.

Max Verstappen jokes about going 'straight to the nightclub' in hilarious footage from car ride with Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez after Sin City win Crystal Palace 1-0 Watford (aet). BBC Sport. Author - Paul Fletcher. Published 27 May 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2018. Holloway named Manager of the Month. The Football League. Published 14 September 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2021.Unfortunately, in the end, when we had success, when we had the money, when it went into the club, there were loopholes and things. I had a rolling contract, and that was the whole point of it – he was used to selling his managers. His whirlwind impression of Ground Force was conducted in just a few weeks over the summer; he and his wife Kim only moved into the place, a beautiful Georgian house in the Wiltshire village of Box, six months ago. Mind you, in his experience, that is a long stay. Arsenal fans call the offside rule 'nonsensical' and claim Leandro Trossard was 'robbed' after the Belgian was denied a first-half opener in Gunners 1-0 win over Brentford In February 2023, Holloway applied for and was interviewed for the vacancy at Scottish Premiership side Motherwell, although the board eventually chose Stuart Kettlewell. [68] Personal life [ edit ] The Caribbean connection: Cole Palmer's grandad reveals his family's journey from St Kitts to Manchester

What I can’t get over is I’m watching his team and he had Ronaldo in it, and Messi in it – and so did the other guy! Good gracious me, how many are there?! You can’t clone them like that, it’s just not right. There should be one person allowed to have that player, come on. Holloway's wife Kim has taken to calling him 'Dobby the house elf' now he's at home so much but you suspect she's just happy to have her husband a little more present. Gary Lineker slams 'most ridiculous penalty decision' against England as Rico Lewis is controversially penalised for foul in North Macedonia clash Holloway's brief Town comment as he outlines intentions for management return". Grimsbylive. 9 December 2022. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits he 'didn't understand a word' of Darwin Nunez's full-time spat with Pep Guardiola after he took on unlikely peacemaker role... as the Reds boss insists 'I love them both'Grimsby Town become first club to be fined for Covid-19 breaches". GrimsbyLive. 12 January 2021. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 28 January 2021. Chalmers, Robert. "Ian Holloway – In a league of his own". gamblog. Archived from the original on 1 September 2006 . Retrieved 22 June 2009.

Every night the police had to sit outside my drive. How does that feel? I tried my best, I felt the club was in a mess, we couldn't stay up. I just tried to clear out as many as I could to give the next bloke the best chance. Former Man United transfer flop looks unrecognisable... 24 years on from producing one of the Premier League's biggest howlers HILARIOUS footage shows former Man United defender Rio Ferdinand being pinned down by a UFC star... just a month before his Las Vegas headliner Holloway was thinking about his life and work a lot recently as he wrote his new book: How To Be A Football Manager. Musings about what he has learned over the years distilled into a practical manual, it is by turns fascinating, frank, funny. And a little bit different. Much like Holloway himself. Though it does beg the question: given that he has not been in a technical area since he left Grimsby Town in 2020, is he really still a football manager? For the last three years of his QPR career, Holloway commuted daily from Bristol to London, a 250-mile round trip, so the children could attend a deaf school in Bristol. As a result, he developed severe sciatica. [71] They then moved to St Albans when the children were of secondary school age, for the same reason. Holloway has learned sign language, and his quirky media-friendly quotes have made him a high-profile campaigner on deaf issues and concerns. [72]EXCLUSIVE: Bodycams are coming to the Premier League for the first time with players set to wear them in warm-ups this weekend

Holloway says: “We’ve got a WhatsApp group with the players and on that group I’ve got the best sports scientist I’ve ever had – Greg Howard. He made things up that they could do from home. If they didn’t have weights, he put two holdalls on the end of a broom and showed them what they could do! It was absolutely brilliant. Ian Holloway says he left Grimsby Town 'in a better position' ". Grimsbytelegraph.co.uk. 29 January 2021 . Retrieved 21 November 2021. His time at the club has been heavily impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, with last season's League Two campaign curtailed while this season has largely been played out behind closed doors. Sky Sports Digital - Follow all the latest from Scottish football across skysports.com and app, including exclusive features and interviews, plus dedicated live blog coverage, in-game clips from matches live on Sky Sports and free highlights. Josh Giddey's name shouted in explicit chant by Lil Uzi Vert concert-goers after the NBA launche rising star for alleged relationship with a minorHolloway met fellow Bristolian Kim when they were both aged 15, and after marrying, he nursed her through lymphatic cancer. [69] [70] The couple have four children: William, twins Eve and Chloe, and Harriet. The twins were born profoundly deaf, as both Ian and Kim had a recessive form of a certain gene meaning that there was a higher chance that they would have deaf children. The doctors told them that there was only a remote possibility of any other children being deaf, but Harriet was also born deaf. Talking about his children, Holloway said: "it's been a fight all the way along to get proper provision for the girls, especially a good education. There's been rows, tribunals, appeals and endless phone calls. We have been labelled as bolshie parents. My view is that every child in the world has the right to be educated properly and whether your eyes or ears don't work is irrelevant. But the system at the moment makes it difficult." [71] Time for a real 'international break'! Stars jet off on holiday with no Premier League games for two weeks... as Loris Karius and partner head for Dubai