Beginning to hate him more than Taylor.....

Yeah he was being bit of a bell this morning re Poch and Spurs too. He sounds bitter tbh.

That whole article is surely written by an embittered Celtic fan.

He'll regret it! You see!
He's a horrible man anyway, didn't even say goodbye to his players!


As for Holloway, who is apparently mistaking mockery and derision for hatred, here are his words (from Wikipedia) when he left Leicester:

"Leicester City is a marvellous club and I am as devastated as anybody that this great club suffered relegation. I gave 100% to the cause but unfortunately we ran out of time. The fans here are a different class and deserve a lot, lot better. I'd like to wish everyone connected with Leicester City well for the future – the club will always remain close to my heart."

BS, i dont always agree with what you say ,But you are absolutely spot on about Holloway.
A quite odious little man who was disastrous for our club.
Everything that went wrong was always everyone elses fault, not as bad a manager as Taylor, but not such a decent man.
His managerial record is poor, and now he is showing his true colours,No doubt he is jealous of our success.
He wanted to be poor mans Martin ONeil, tried to use long words and interesting expressions, inevitably got his words and diction wrong and looked what he was ,embarrassing.
He cant accept with grace our success ,and to compare his situation with that of our new manager just shows how unintelligent he is.
Dont think he will ever get another decent job,probably knows this and now resorts to pointless comments.

..when he left Plymouth for Leicester mid way through a season - which he apparently bitterly regrets.
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...but not half as much as we do!

Holloway is the reason I hate modern English managers. One of the most stupid guy I have heard talking. Talks in clichés and gives no insight about the game of football. Always says the same predictable things like all English managers of now do like "He wears his heart on his sleeve or the lad gives 120%".

Gone are the days of Clough and Paisley.

I think he is a d-head but he joined a sinking ship with us....... He should of stayed at Plymouth! After all he did bleed green! Lol who cares what he says anyway?

I've always found it difficult to have the same loathing for Holoway as some of my fellow LCFC fans have. He's the kind of guy who's funny, amiable and pleasant when things are going well - but a joker, an idiot and a clown when things aren't going so well.

I also suspect he took over at Leicester when the club was in almost terminal decline or, at least, at the bottom of the bounce at the beginning of the Mandarich era. He also got us relegated with a record high total, on the last game, so was a bit unlucky.

I'm not going to argue too much with fans who have a different perspective. He is, after all, the only LCFC manager in history to have got us relegated to the third tier. It's just I personally struggle to have as much contempt for him as I do people like: Taylor, Pleat or even Martin Allen and Craig Levein. Taylor being some way ahead of the others.

I can’t think of one example where Holloway has ever been funny Joby. Stupid yes, but not intentionally funny.

What riles Leicester fans about him was his attitude while the ship was blatantly sinking. His refusal to accept games as ‘critical’, his ridiculous ‘chill out and have a sandwich’ comment to a reporter when quizzed about how serious things looked

It wasn’t until relegation was confirmed that he looked in anyway as if he appreciated the severity of the situation.

It wasn’t all his fault of course - Leicester were in a decline by the time he got there, but a half decent manager would have kept that team up, it was more than good enough to stay up, as demonstrated by the fact we bounced back up with a huge points total and largely the same players the following season

And don’t forget he signed Barry facking Hayles

You're saying you /don't/ dream of a team of Barry Hayles?

I feel that the coke head is the one to blame for the failer that season and Holloway gets the blame.
He should not of come but given how our fans are now about every manager and a lot of players.
He has a point and Rogers has 5.5m reasons to smile

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Hadn't heard that about Allen before but find it entirely believable.

I think both of them and Megson are all to blame in part. As BS points out:

"It wasn’t until relegation was confirmed that he looked in anyway as if he appreciated the severity of the situation."

I agree with that entirely. It was only after the season that the penny dropped.

Just realised that with all the comments on here about unpopular characters who have left their mark on our club (mainly managers) one name has not been mentioned, who should never be forgotten or forgiven.
Denis Wise!!!

As I say I’m not going to argue that he did a good job here - he clearly didn’t - it’s just my hierarchy of ineptitude is different.

And surely signing Barry Hayles was an act of comedy genius

I’d forgot Gary Megson.

He’d be higher up my hate list than Holloway as well.

A clown who shouldn't be given air time by the media. If I ever hear his voice I always switch off immediately. I must admit that I actually thought when he took over at Leicester that he might be ok - how wrong can you be??

Andy King, if nobody else, is very grateful for Hollow-words taking us down to div. 1- think about it! He has gone into our history books thanks to him!

“I regret going to Leicester, we got relegated, I should have stayed at Plymouth"

I did something, it didn’t work out so I wish I hadn’t done it.

Very thought provoking.

I liked/like him. He was left holding the unwanted accolade of being the only manager to be in charge of LCFC being relegated to the third tier, but was he more to blame than Allen or Megson?

We can’t judge Puel based on the foundations he’s laid for Rodgers.

We can blame Allen and Megson for the mess Holloway inherited.

We can credit Pearson for the team he left for Ranieri to take on.

Peter Taylor only has himself to blame.

Confusing.

comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 39 minutes ago
We can’t judge Puel based on the foundations he’s laid for Rodgers.

We can blame Allen and Megson for the mess Holloway inherited.

We can credit Pearson for the team he left for Ranieri to take on.

Peter Taylor only has himself to blame.

Confusing.

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Not really.

Puel has completely turned over the legendary team and brought through new young players. I agree with you that if BRodgers gets them playing then history may remember Puel more fondly than his current perception.

Allen recruited badly and was a nutcase. Megson treated us disgracefully. Holloway inherited a club in terminal decline - but he did also do a pretty bad job.

Pearson picked us up in the 3rd tier and left us in the Premier League. Momentum was behind us after the great escape.

Peter Taylor picked up a side built by Martin O’Neill. An established, top ten, Premier League club. He dismantled it, got us relegated, signed very poor players on inflated salaries, which ended up with the club in administration.

Context is everything. We can argue mitigating circumstances for some of them, but not for Taylor. For me he’s the worst of all time.

comment by Jobyfox (U4183)
posted 8 hours, 41 minutes ago
comment by Merseysidefox (U4842)
posted 39 minutes ago
We can’t judge Puel based on the foundations he’s laid for Rodgers.

We can blame Allen and Megson for the mess Holloway inherited.

We can credit Pearson for the team he left for Ranieri to take on.

Peter Taylor only has himself to blame.

Confusing.

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Not really.

Puel has completely turned over the legendary team and brought through new young players. I agree with you that if BRodgers gets them playing then history may remember Puel more fondly than his current perception.

Allen recruited badly and was a nutcase. Megson treated us disgracefully. Holloway inherited a club in terminal decline - but he did also do a pretty bad job.

Pearson picked us up in the 3rd tier and left us in the Premier League. Momentum was behind us after the great escape.

Peter Taylor picked up a side built by Martin O’Neill. An established, top ten, Premier League club. He dismantled it, got us relegated, signed very poor players on inflated salaries, which ended up with the club in administration.

Context is everything. We can argue mitigating circumstances for some of them, but not for Taylor. For me he’s the worst of all time.
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Totally agree Joby-Wan Kenobi , obvs.