Holloway on BBC 1 Breakfast

Holloway is on BBC 1 Breakfast now pushing his book, no idea if he will mention his spell at Town.

Needless to say he didn't. He just came out with the type of guff which took the vast majority of us in. Looking at where we are now the only conclusion you can come to is that we ultimately dodged a massive bullet there.

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Needless to say he didn't. He just came out with the type of guff which took the vast majority of us in. Looking at where we are now the only conclusion you can come to is that we ultimately dodged a massive bullet there.

I don’t know about that, the bullet definitely hit. Without the urgent CPR applied by messrs Stockwood and Pettit we’d almost certainly be dead now.

Important to remember both sides of the coin.

Let's put a positive spin on it.

His arrival here was in some way linked to this bigger masterplan that involved Alex May, I'm pretty much convinced of that.  I'm not sure if it was a business arrangement or that Fenty/May felt that Holloway would have the connections to make the inroads they wanted.  Regardless, it happened.

That in turn brought the May saga forward, someone (thank you!) tipped off the local press and James Findlater (when we eventually get a new ground he's as deserving as anyone of a stand named after them!) dug and dug and dug, probably in very difficult circumstances to get that scoop and run with it.  

Once the story was out it absolutely copulated Fenty over.  Here was the second in command of the local council caught in bed with a convicted fraudster and it left him with his pants well and truly down.  Whatever plans he had business wise in this area were done and dusted.  

Had this not come out, Fenty wouldn't have let go on his grasp of GTFC because he viewed it as integral to whatever vision/scheme he had lined up.  Only when the reality hit that he wasn't going to get to see this through, did he decide to sell out as we were no longer of any benefit to him.

Holloway's regime (first four months aside) was a disaster.  But 22 months after he first arrived, we're in a ridiculously better position now.  It's not even recognisable.   I'm not grateful for his role in that because it wasn't intended, I'll sure as hell never thank him.   But without him as the catalyst for the shenanigans to develop, I'm not convinced we would have our current ownership.

media don't know what he is going to say next - that's why they love him cos he's a bumbling idiot
Convinced if he didn't sound like a carrot cruncher they'd leave him well alone

They are laughing at him and not with him

From a neutral point of view he's very entertaining and I can see why he gets thousands for after dinner speeches

Shite footy manager ultimately

My partner text me saying "It's the football manager on BBC that you don't like" swiftly followed by "he seems like he's insane". I feel a bit bad cause she has no interest in football at all so I must have been really ranting about him for her to remember his name.

Holloway couldn't understand why he's getting no calls from clubs and England will win the World Cup in Qatar, says it all.

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Holloway couldn't understand why he's getting no calls from clubs and England will win the World Cup in Qatar, says it all.

We’ll win the World Cup? Yep. That’s the normal populist guff that spews out of his mouth.

I genuinely couldn’t bear to listen to the bloke. So much so that it occurred to me when we signed Ryley Towler last season that he’d ruined the West Country accent for me in the same way Hitler ruined the toothbrush moustache.

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My partner text me saying "It's the football manager on BBC that you don't like" swiftly followed by "he seems like he's insane". I feel a bit bad cause she has no interest in football at all so I must have been really ranting about him for her to remember his name.

Say what you want about the bald bloke from Bristol… his acting works for him: he’s built a character that a lot of people find amusing.

Let’s face it, he’s mentioned on here a LOT more than any other recent managers: Slade, Jolley, Bignot etc.

If he angers you, the best thing you can do is ignore him- any publicity is good publicity…