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Encyclopedia > Ian Holloway
Ian Holloway
Personal information
Full name Ian Scott Holloway
Date of birth 12 March 1963 (1963-03-12) (age 44)
Place of birth    Cadbury Heath, England
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position Midfielder (retired)
Club information
Current club Leicester City (manager)
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1981–1985
1985–1986
1986–1987
1987
1987–1991
1991–1996
1996–1999
Bristol Rovers
Wimbledon
Brentford
Torquay United (loan)
Bristol Rovers
Queens Park Rangers
Bristol Rovers
111 (14)
019 0(2)
030 0(2)
005 0(0)
179 (26)
147 0(4)
107 0(1)   
Teams managed
1996–2001
2001–2006
2006–2007
2007–
Bristol Rovers
Queens Park Rangers
Plymouth Argyle
Leicester City

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals) is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... Cadbury Heath is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) is an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... In sports, a coach or manager is an individual involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of an athletic team or of individual athletes. ... For details of the current season, see Bristol Rovers F.C. season 2007-08 Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football team, based in Bristol. ... Wimbledon F.C. crest This article refers to the original club from London which existed until 2003. ... Brentford Football Club are an English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. ... Torquay United Football Club, nicknamed the Gulls, is an English association football club based in the seaside resort town of Torquay, Devon. ... For details of the current season, see Bristol Rovers F.C. season 2007-08 Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football team, based in Bristol. ... Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English football club, based at Shepherds Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London. ... For details of the current season, see Bristol Rovers F.C. season 2007-08 Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football team, based in Bristol. ... For details of the current season, see Bristol Rovers F.C. season 2007-08 Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football team, based in Bristol. ... Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English football club, based at Shepherds Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London. ... For details of the current season, see Plymouth Argyle F.C. season 2007-08 Plymouth Argyle Football Club (commonly known as the Pilgrims, the Greens, the Green Army or simply Argyle) are an English football team, playing in the Football League Championship. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) is an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ...

Ian Scott Holloway (born 12 March 1963 in Kingswood, Bristol) is an English former professional football midfielder. He is the manager of Championship side Leicester City. is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1963 (disambiguation). ... Kingswood is a town in South Gloucestershire, England; it is on the eastern outskirts of Bristol (see below). ... This article is about the English city. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Soccer redirects here. ... The Midfield in relation to the football positions In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram). ... In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of an athletic team or of individual athletes. ... The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short, or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) is an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ...

Contents

Playing career

A native of Bristol, Holloway grew up in Cadbury Heath where his mother Jean still lives in the same council house. Holloway was in the same class as fellow player Gary Penrice at school and they still remain close friends today. His father Bill, an outstanding amateur footballer, was a seaman, then a factory worker. Holloway began his playing career as an apprentice with his hometown team Bristol Rovers, turning professional in March 1981 and making his league debut the same year. He usually played on the right side of midfield, and made his name as one of the more promising players in the Third Division (now League One). After four seasons at Rovers, he was transferred to Wimbledon in July 1985 for £35,000. This article is about the English city. ... Cadbury Heath is a village in South Gloucestershire, England. ... Gary Kenneth Penrice (born Bristol, March 23, 1964) is a former professional footballer. ... From the 1992-93 to the 2003-04 season, the Football League Third Division was the third-highest division of The Football League and the fourth-highest division in the overall English football league system. ... Wimbledon F.C. crest This article refers to the original club from London which existed until 2003. ...


His stay at Wimbledon was a short one. In March 1986, after less than one year at the club, he was sold to Brentford for £25,000, where he also spent just a little over a year. In January 1987 he joined Torquay United on loan, playing 5 times. In August 1987, after two disappointing years in London, Holloway returned to Bristol Rovers for a fee of £10,000. Brentford Football Club are an English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. ... Torquay United Football Club, nicknamed the Gulls, is an English association football club based in the seaside resort town of Torquay, Devon. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...


Back at Rovers, who were now playing "home" games at Twerton Park in Bath, and under the wing of new Rovers manager Gerry Francis, Holloway flourished. In four seasons, he missed only five games, and was a key player as Rovers gained promotion to the Second Division in 1990. When Francis was appointed manager of Premiership side QPR in 1991, one of his first signings was Holloway, for a fee of £230,000 in August 1991. Twerton Park is a multi-use stadium in Bath, England. ... , Bath is a small city in Somerset, England most famous for its historic baths fed by three hot springs. ... Gerry Francis (born 1951), is a former English footballer and manager. ... From 1892 until 1992, the Football League Second Division was the second highest division overall in English football. ... For the Scottish equivalent see Scottish Premier League The FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclays Premiership in England and the Barclays English Premier League or just simply The EPL internationally) is a league competition for football clubs located at the top of the English football league system...


Undeterred by his previous failure to settle in London, and the fact that he had never played at the highest level before, Holloway made the most of his second spell in the English capital, and became a crowd favourite at Loftus Road with his tireless running and determination. He spent five seasons at QPR, playing more than 150 games for the club, before returning to Bristol Rovers for the third time in August 1996, this time as player-manager. Loftus Road is a side-street in Shepherds Bush London W12. ...


Managerial career

Bristol Rovers

Holloway took over a club that was struggling both on and off the pitch. In his first season in charge of Rovers, he led the club to 17th place in Division Two (now League One). The next season, however, Bristol Rovers gained fifth place and made the playoffs. Despite taking a first-leg advantage of 3-1 against Northampton Town, Rovers subsequently lost 3-0 in the second leg and went out 4-3 on aggregate in the semi-finals. The 1998-99 season ended with a somewhat disappointing 13th place. Holloway retired as a player following that season, having played more than 400 matches for Bristol Rovers, to concentrate fully on management. In 1999-2000, his last full season at the club, Rovers finished 7th, narrowly missing the playoffs. A playoff in sports (North American professional sports in particular) is a game or series of games played after the regular season is over with the goal of determining a league champion, or a similar accolade. ...


Queens Park Rangers

In February 2001, midway through the 2000-01 season, Holloway was appointed manager of QPR, where he was given the seemingly impossible task of keeping the now-struggling team in Division One. He failed to do so, as QPR finished second from bottom and were relegated to the third level for the first time in 34 years. Despite the relegation, Holloway stayed on and rebuilt the side. After steadying the ship in 2001-02, and a near miss in 2002-03, Holloway and QPR were promoted back to the second level in 2004, finishing second behind Plymouth Argyle. For details of the current season, see Plymouth Argyle F.C. season 2007-08 Plymouth Argyle Football Club (commonly known as the Pilgrims, the Greens, the Green Army or simply Argyle) are an English football team, playing in the Football League Championship. ...


Holloway's first full season in The Championship ended with a respectable 11th place, and during the following season 2005-06, the club continued to hover around mid-table. The Football League Championship (often referred to as The Championship for short, or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League. ...


Ian Holloway was suspended (sent on gardening leave) as manager by Queens Park Rangers on 6 February 2006. The reason given by the Q.P.R board was that the constant rumours linking Holloway to the vacant managerial position at Leicester City were causing too many problems for the club.[1] As it turned out, the Leicester job went to Rob Kelly, and QPR went on to finish 21st, just one place above the relegation positions. is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) is an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... Robert Anthony Kelly (born December 21, 1964) is an English football manager formerly of Leicester City and currently coaching at Preston North End. ...


Plymouth Argyle

On 28 June Holloway became the manager of Plymouth Argyle, and promised to take the club to the Premiership.[2] On 12 August after Plymouth beat Sunderland away 2-3, in celebration of his first away win as manager Holloway offered to buy every one of the 700 fans who made the 805-mile round trip a drink: "Anyone who travelled up there please send me a letter. I would love to buy you a drink.".[3] On 10 October 2006, Ian Holloway made a remarkable return to football, playing for Argyle's reserve team against South Western side Liskeard, however he only did this due to a number of players being injured, and has since vowed to hang up his boots permanently. is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional football club, based at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, in North-East England. ... is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Liskeard Athletic F.C. is a football club based in Liskeard, Cornwall, England. ...


Leicester City

Following press speculation, on 21 November 2007, Holloway submitted his resignation to the Plymouth Argyle board, with speculation that he was about to be offered the vacant managerial position at Leicester City.[4] The Plymouth board issued a statement saying he was still employed by Plymouth and tied legally to his contract, and the board's decision on whether or not to accept his resignation would be made on Friday, 23 November. Having agreed a compensation package for his services, he was announced in a press conference by Milan Mandaric as the Leicester manager on the 22nd November, on a three and a half year contract.[5][6] Holloway made history when he became the first Leicester manager in over 50 years to win his first league game in charge, beating Bristol City 2-0.[7] He was a popular figure from the start at the Walkers Stadium but this lowered slightly after he launched a attack at a small section of the crowd after they jeered Carl Cort of the pitch in the 2-1 loss to Southampton FC is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) is an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Milan Mandaric is a Serbian business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and football (soccer) clubs who currently owns English club Portsmouth F.C.. He was born in the former Yugoslavia, in Lika (now in Croatia) in 19?? and grew up in the Serbian city of Novi... Bristol City is a football club in Bristol, England, which plays in Football League One. ... The Walkers Stadium is a football stadium which plays home matches to English football team Leicester City F.C. The stadium, inaugurated in July, 2004, holds 32,500 and is named after Leicester Citys sponsers Walkers. ... Carl Cort (born November 1, 1977 in Southwark, London) is an English professional footballer. ... Southampton F.C. (originally St. ...


Stress test

In June 2004, Holloway took part in the BBC series "Stress Test". The documentary addressed the fits of rage which were disrupting Holloway's home life, with the help of psychologists and an anger management expert. Holloway said afterwards: "If I hadn't done that programme, I wouldn't be sitting here now. Before I did it, I believed that I was a person who was kind, considerate, and believed in free speech. The anger management expert showed me I was a jumped-up, obnoxious little git who wouldn't listen at home because of what happened at work. If I'd carried on the way I was, I would have destructed everything I had." As a result he changed his attitude, and painted Promotion, an abstract canvas in the style of Jackson Pollock which hangs in the lounge of the family home.[8] For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Controversy swirls over the alleged sale of No. ...


Personal life

Holloway met fellow Bristolian Kim when she was aged 14, and after marrying nursed her through Lymph cancer. 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 gene which means that they were more likely to 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. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The word deaf can have very different meanings depending on the background of the person speaking or the context in which the word is used. ...


With three children in one family deaf, it has challenged Ian and Kim to get their children the best education. But the couple made the choice to put the children first, meaning that for the last three years of his QPR career, Holloway commuted daily from Bristol to London so the children could attend a deaf school in Bristol. They then moved to St Alban's when the children were of secondary school age, for the same reason. Holloway has learned to communicate via sign language, and his quirky media-loving quotes have made him a high-profile campaigner on deaf issues and concerns.[9] British Sign Language (BSL) is the sign language used in the United Kingdom (UK), and is the first or preferred language of an unknown number of Deaf people in the UK (published estimates range from 30,000 to 250,000 but it is likely that the lower figures are more...


Holloway is well-known for his many strange and bizarre comments in post-match interviews, which are often quoted in the national media. His creative use of metaphors has made him one of the most popular interviews and one of the cult personalities in English football. In June 2005 a book of his quotes, "Let's Have Coffee: The Tao of Ian Holloway", was published; and in June 2006 he came 15th in a Time Out poll of funniest Londoners, ahead of Paul Merton and Ali G.[10] In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. ... Time-out can mean: sport time-out, a break in play that may be called by a side to formulate strategy or respond to an players injury. ... Paul Merton (born Paul Martin 9 July 1957[1]) is an English actor, deadpan comedian and writer, who is best known as a panellist on the BBC TV show Have I Got News for You and Radio 4s Just a Minute, as well as Channel 4s Whose Line... Ali G (Alistair Leslie Graham) is a satirical fictional character invented and played by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. ...


Since moving to Plymouth, Holloway has grown an admiration for local basketball team Plymouth Raiders, who play in the professional top-tier British Basketball League. Many of his columns in local newspapers are focused on the Raiders, and he even admits to being tactically inspired by basketball plays used by the team in games.[11] This article is about the sport. ... The Plymouth Raiders, officially called Kularoos Plymouth Raiders by sponsorship, is South-west Englands leading basketball team. ... “BBL” redirects here. ...


Managerial stats

Team Nat From To Record
P W L D Win %
Bristol Rovers Flag of England May 13, 1996 January 29, 2001 247 90 87 70 36.43
Queens Park Rangers Flag of England February 26, 2001 February 6, 2006 252 100 81 71 39.68
Plymouth Argyle Flag of England June 28, 2006 November 21, 2007 71 28 20 23 39.43
Leicester City Flag of England November 22, 2007 Present 3 1 1 1 33.33

For details of the current season, see Bristol Rovers F.C. season 2007-08 Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football team, based in Bristol. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English football club, based at Shepherds Bush in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For details of the current season, see Plymouth Argyle F.C. season 2007-08 Plymouth Argyle Football Club (commonly known as the Pilgrims, the Greens, the Green Army or simply Argyle) are an English football team, playing in the Football League Championship. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Leicester City Football Club, (also known as The Foxes) is an English professional football club based in the city of Leicester. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

References

  1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/q/qpr/4685138.stm
  2. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/plymouth_argyle/4781671.stm
  3. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/4793239.stm
  4. ^ http://www.pafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10364~1172570,00.html
  5. ^ Holloway appointed Leicester boss BBC Sport - 22 November, 2007
  6. ^ Ian Holloway named Leicester's new manager Telegraph - 22 November, 2007
  7. ^ Jimbo Hails Ollie Arrival, Leicester City 2007-11-25. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
  8. ^ http://www.gamblog.co.uk/2005/11/ian-holloway-in-depth-interview.htm
  9. ^ http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1072689,00.html
  10. ^ http://www.gamblog.co.uk/2005/11/ian-holloway-in-depth-interview.htm
  11. ^ http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=197262&command=displayContent&sourceNode=197261&contentPK=16647529&folderPk=95953&pNodeId=197263

Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 329th day of the year (330th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

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