Ollie'isms (Ian Holloway-Millwall manager)

As a tribute to the great saviour that will be Ian Holloway i dedicate this thread to the wonderful World of after match quotes..

Thumb-sucking

“I’ve had such bad luck at the moment that if I fell in a barrel of boobs I’d come out sucking my thumb.”

-Holloway, on an especially poor run at Queens Park Rangers. (Telegraph)





 

Better in the dark

“I love Blackpool. We’re very similar. We both look better in the dark.”

-Holloway, on his post at Bloomfield Road.

Feeling better

“He’s six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking. He’s got to have something wrong with him. Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better.”

-Holloway, writing about Cristiano Ronaldo in a BBC column in 2008. (BBC)


  

Off course you have to go some to beat the recently deceased David Coleman RIP.


David Coleman on BBC's Grandstand

“He is accelerating all the time. The last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.”

“It’s gold or nothing ... and it’s nothing. He comes away with the silver medal.”

“There is Brendan Foster, by himself with 20,000 people.”

“Forest have now lost six matches without winning.”

“The front wheel crosses the finish line, closely followed by the back wheel.”

“And here’s Moses Kiptanui – the 19-year-old Kenyan who turned 20 a few weeks ago.”

“If that had gone in, it would have been a goal.”

“This evening is a very different evening from the morning we had this morning.”

“I think there is no doubt, she’ll probably qualify for the final.”

“Nobody has ever won the title twice before. He (Roger Black) has already done that.”

“Both of the Villa scorers – Withe and Mortimer – were born in Liverpool as was the Villa manager Ron Saunders who was born in Birkenhead.”

Ugly as sin

“I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal. They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it, too. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are ugly as sin.”

-Holloway, responding to a question about mandatory bookings for taking a shirt off. (Daily Mail)

  

“It was a bit cheeky wasn’t it? But I don’t think it was that bad. It would have been worse if he’d turned round and dropped the front of his shorts instead. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a couple of butt cheeks personally. (…) If anybody’s offended by seeing a backside, get real. Maybe they’re just jealous that he’s got a real nice tight one, with no cellulite or anything.” – on Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton mooning Everton fans

“It was lucky that the linesman wasn’t stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.” – Holloway states his opinion about the linesman’s performance in a game against Bristol City.