Ian Holloway is establishing himself as a firm favourite amongst football fans up and down the country thanks to his comedic quips in interviews and also for the extremely impressive results he has achieved at Blackpool. However, as much as he is the darling of the English football media at the minute, some comments are not so well received and highlight a level of naivety and hypocrisy that is apparent in the Tangerines manager.
Ollie has been extremely vocal, as always, in declaring that his star man Charlie Adam is not going to be sold during this transfer window and has been scathing of clubs who have declared their interest in his man, particularly Aston Villa. He has said of the bid Villa made for Adam: "Three-and-a-half million for him, you're taking the mickey out of us. It's an absolutely disgraceful offer. And why is it in the paper and why are they talking about it?”
So clearly Holloway has taken serious issue with another club firstly making a fairly low bid for a key player of his, and secondly that club letting the news be made public. However, this stand point didn’t prevent him making bids for and publicly declaring his interest in Adam Hammill of Barnsley, Bradley Wright-Phillips of Plymouth and Jason Puncheon of Southampton. All three of these players are as key to their respective teams as Charlie Adam is to his and Blackpool are not thought to have offered more than £500,000 for any of them, significantly less than £3.5 million they were offered and described as “disgraceful.”
Holloway’s famous rants are obviously entertaining and spice up what can be dull and routine press conferences, but his thoughtless, unintelligent ramblings can offend at times. Despite repeatedly saying how much he is loving life in the Premier League he cuts a bitter figure at times and is often moaning about things going against his side. This seems bizarre as it is a minor miracle that a club like Blackpool are competing in the top half of the Premier League, and their Cinderella story has made them everyone’s second favourite team. As much as Ollie has added some much needed entertainment to the media circus that surrounds English football, he needs to think before he speaks a little more, and show others the respect that he constantly demands for his own club.
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