Holloway

oxonfox

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I know lots of people blame him for taking us into league one, not his fault after Allen and megson but he always sticks up for us saying we should be classed as top six, not that I want us to join this European circus.
 
Nah, don't need his input or support thanks. A broken clock is still right twice a day and all that.

btw He had 32 games that season compared the Mad Dog and Megson's 13 combined. We went down by a point. it was easier to keep us up. It took some special effort to get relegated, see Watford away, Wednesday at home
 
oxonfox said:
I know lots of people blame him for taking us into league one, not his fault after Allen and megson but he always sticks up for us saying we should be classed as top six, not that I want us to join this European circus.
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I liked Holloway as a person with his enthusiasm and love for football
Unfortunately those qualities failed to deliver success at LCFC during his tenure but i always rooted for the guy when he managed teams like QPR, etc
 
Wombat said:
I liked Holloway as a person with his enthusiasm and love for football
Unfortunately those qualities failed to deliver success at LCFC during his tenure but i always rooted for the guy when he managed teams like QPR, etc
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He didn't just fail to deliver success though did he? He took us down to League One and singularly failed to realise what he had done!
 
SardiniaFox said:
He singularly failed to realise what he had done!
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That’s the worst thing about his time with us. We were a nearly Club when he came to the Citeh. Nearly won the FA Cup, Nearly won the old First Division (1928/29). Nearly good enough to stay in the top flight for more than eleven years. Nearly bad enough to drop into the third tier (but one of only a handful of clubs who hadn’t). Not only did he successfully wipe out the only Nearly we hoped to cling onto. He neither understood nor cared about it.
 
You're completely right about that "nearly" thing. Let's hope that from that low point, we will never be a "nearly" club again.
 
Devils Advocate and all that BUT........
If he had kept us up, would MM have been so determined to sell us?
If he had kept us up, we would NEVER of had NFP as our manager to kick start where we are today (I shuddered typing that but I will give him credit where its due).
If he had kept us up, we would be probably be mid table, occasional play off contenders.

Best thing in hindsight the useless cunt was our manager during that ill fated season.
 
Holloway has 4 children and all his 3 girls,twins Eve and Chloe and later Harriet,were all born profoundly deaf. His son William is not deaf.
I know this because my late wife,when working part time for LCFC, and who knew signing for the deaf was sometimes asked to look after any of the girls who might be at the stadium on match days. Lovely family!
 
At the time we were on a downwards slope. For several seasons before we had flirted with relegation, with league positons (15th, 16th, 19th) and points (57, 54, 53) steadily declining. At the end of one particularly bad season we got relegated by a point (22nd, 52 pts)!

We were a rather poorly run club then. Granted, Holloway did a poor job, too, but there was a certain inevitability at the time, so I don't think you can make him out as the sole culprit.

Edited to say that the situation Holloway came into was a totally different proposition to the one a certain Peter Taylor faced and messed up completely.
 
All he had to to was keep us up ..... it was agony watching the Sands Of Time slip through our fingers as we tried to cling on ......... Remember reading the headlines on Ceefax .... "Leicester and Holloway part company" ......

Harry Worley, eh ? .....
 
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That Stoke game was the most painful.
Worse than the Watford fiasco.
Worse than the Swindon and Blackburn play-offs.
Worse than the '82 semi-final.
 
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