Holloway's Latest Cretinous Outpouring

[EastStandBlue]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...one-Japan-blasts-Blackpools-Ian-Holloway.html

Some choice quotes, including:

"What do the FA need the money for, and what right have they got to it, anyway?"

Well, the FA do actually have a great need for the finance required to run the country's game, and they have a right to fine Ferguson because he broke the rules.

"Why can't they help the rest of the world, for a change, and do something useful with it?"

I must've missed the countless charitable events and causes that the FA champion.

"When we were fined, I got the club to ask the FA if they could give the money to Gary Parkinson and his wife. That's where I wanted it to go, but we didn't even get a reply."

Probably because the FA weren't established to bow to your every whim.


The Ian Holloway show is becoming increasingly tiresome now.

 

[jamesmut2000]

The bloke is a tit if the highest order - always has been. The press love him cos he once said something funny and have kissed his arse ever since.

 

[Mick]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...one-Japan-blasts-Blackpools-Ian-Holloway.html

Some choice quotes, including:

"What do the FA need the money for, and what right have they got to it, anyway?"

Well, the FA do actually have a great need for the finance required to run the country's game, and they have a right to fine Ferguson because he broke the rules.

"Why can't they help the rest of the world, for a change, and do something useful with it?"

I must've missed the countless charitable events and causes that the FA champion.

"When we were fined, I got the club to ask the FA if they could give the money to Gary Parkinson and his wife. That's where I wanted it to go, but we didn't even get a reply."

Probably because the FA weren't established to bow to your every whim.


The Ian Holloway show is becoming increasingly tiresome now.

The FA are an apallingly managed organisation whose stewardship of the game is flawed in so many ways.

Ian Holloway is somewhat outspoken and does not always think things through before speaking but I think his heart is in the right place. He, too, does good work for charity, having three profoundly deaf children. I'm sure I'd rather spend time in his company than that of any of the moguls at the FA.

 

[EastStandBlue]

The FA are an apallingly managed organisation whose stewardship of the game is flawed in so many ways.

Ian Holloway is somewhat outspoken and does not always think things through before speaking but I think his heart is in the right place. He, too, does good work for charity, having three profoundly deaf children. I'm sure I'd rather spend time in his company than that of any of the moguls at the FA.

I'm not contesting that though, am I? I'm contesting the subject of Holloway's rant which is thoroughly misguided and inaccurate. The very notion that the FA have no need for money is absolutely ludicrous, as portrayed by how the association is whoring Wembley out at every opportunity.

I have my own criticisms of the FA, the fact it took them the best part of two decades to replace Lilleshall with St. George's Park is scandalous, but to criticise them for adhering to punishments is nonsense.

 

[Blue_Wes]

I'm not contesting that though, am I? I'm contesting the subject of Holloway's rant which is thoroughly misguided and inaccurate. The very notion that the FA have no need for money is absolutely ludicrous, as portrayed by how the association is whoring Wembley out at every opportunity.

I have my own criticisms of the FA, the fact it took them the best part of two decades to replace Lilleshall with St. George's Park is scandalous, but to criticise them for adhering to punishments is nonsense.

But you did call him cretinous, and Mick's argument is that his heart is in the right place, even if he is outspoken, and that despite the fact that you see him as a cretin, he would rather spend time with him as opposed to those you are defending, the FA. IH as many others do, believe the fine was harsh and was expressing his opinion, in his own way and probably didn't deserve to vilified as a cretin for doing such. Most prefer to have colourful characters such as IH in the game, even if sometimes they do overstep the mark.

 

[mattytheshrimper]

I like him and the FA are a joke of an organisation so I think he has the right to take th p*** out of them personally.

 

[BrettieAngell]

I'm not contesting that though, am I? I'm contesting the subject of Holloway's rant which is thoroughly misguided and inaccurate. The very notion that the FA have no need for money is absolutely ludicrous, as portrayed by how the association is whoring Wembley out at every opportunity.

Because they spent ridiculous amounts of money building it!

 

[Roots Hall Flare]

Ian Holloway is exactly what the Premiership needed. Someone who tells it how it is everytime he's asked a question and is not afraid to stand up for himself or others.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Because they spent ridiculous amounts of money building it!

There is that, but we drastically needed to overhaul Wembley as the place was falling down. I'm talking about the money that the FA needs to inject into grass roots football, coaching schemes and education and the like. The sponsorship that the FA draws in from the likes of Vauxhall doesn't contribute anywhere near enough, but that's the consequence of a failing international team.

Ian Holloway is exactly what the Premiership needed. Someone who tells it how it is everytime he's asked a question and is not afraid to stand up for himself or others.

I'm all for having characters in the Premiership... I'd much sooner have the likes of Mourinho in the league than Mancini, for instance, but Holloway has become a parody of himself. Despite the hypocritical nature of his rant about Rooney, I thought he was spot on calling him out, but this rant is without substance IMO.