Ollie - New Blackpool boss

Ian Holloway is back in football, which means we can look forward to more off the wall quotes from one of football’s great characters.

The former QPR and Plymouth boss has been named new manager of Championship outfit Blackpool and given an initial one year contract with a clear objective to keep the Seasiders in the division next year.

After a disastrous spell in charge of Leicester City, Holloway returns to the game after a year spent, in his own words, “licking his wounds”.

The very best of Holloway’s quotes include:

“Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.”
- on veteran striker Paul Furlong.

“I believe in what I am doing totally and once people speak to me they do too – I could sell snow to the Eskimos.”

“You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I’m like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.”

“Every dog has its day, and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark!”
- Holloway after securing promotion to the Championship.”

However, Holloway’s finest hour came in the wake of QPR’s victory over Chesterfield in which he compared the ‘ugly win’ to a young woman. Check out the clip below!

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