Ian Holloway

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Anyone see his rant on Sky, about Rooney?

Absolute classic..
The guy is so passionate and tells it how it is..

Can someone post a link if they find the vid. Ta.

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Blackpool manager Ian Holloway has blasted the football authorities for allowing the Wayne Rooney situation to happen.

Holloway believes the Bosman ruling of 1995, which allows players over the age of 24 to move for free at the end of their contracts, unfairly penalises clubs.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson this week confirmed Rooney has told the club he will not sign a new contract, meaning he can walk away for nothing when his current deal expires in the summer of 2012.

An impassioned Holloway said: "I've got big problems with the people who are running football. I know the reasons I think the game is in trouble and you cannot have a Bosman ruling they've got at the moment.

"Manchester United have helped Wayne Rooney's career massively on and off the field. The manager, the club itself has invested in him. They bought him for massive amounts of money as a young man and they're helping him blossom into the player that he is.

"He's one of the best centre-forwards in the world. And if he sees his contract out he's going to be able to walk out of there for nothing. That's the people at the very top of the game's fault.

"Our rules were brilliant. If he was offered the same amount of money again, they could hold his registration and someone would have to pay the fair amount of money for him.

"Just because you're 24, what on earth has that got to do with it? It's just ludicrous. They have the power to change this straight away.

"What if he sits there for 18 months, throws tantrums, doesn't try, doesn't play, and someone's already said to him, 'We'll take you and we'll pay you some of that money we should have paid Manchester United because you can walk out on a free'?

"Do you want to sign a person like that? Do you want to play for a club that says that to you? How do we know it hasn't already happened? The game is wrong. The people in charge of the game are wrong. They are so wrong this is frightening.

"If Alex Ferguson is being bullied by a player and his agent, how wrong is the game? When are you (FIFA and UEFA) going to listen to the people who are involved in the game?

"They say it's not fair on the player. Rubbish. The player has had his wages every week. They bought him, they worked with him, he belongs to them. It's so obvious. The world should change if it's wrong and football should look at itself.

"I'm looking at Alex Ferguson and thinking: 'What a magnificent manager. How can he handle this?' How he feels about Manchester United, how proud he is. Yet Wayne Rooney or his agent can now manufacture a situation like this."

It was Holloway's second rant about the rules of the game in a week after the Tangerines boss used his post-match press conference on Sunday to call for the introduction of video technology.

Holloway, who was serving a touchline ban and watched the game from the stand, was unhappy with a number of decisions in the 3-2 defeat by Manchester City that went against his side.

But the former Leicester and QPR chief praised Phil Dowd after revealing the referee had phoned him on Monday to discuss the decisions involved.

"The conversation I had with him, I've got so much respect for him now," said Holloway. "But, at the time, it's affected the result. I'm not against them (referees), I'm against the people who are deciding they're not allowed to use the technology

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Found it..

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RdLGZ89uU&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Ian Holloway's outburst on Wayne Rooney[/ame]

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Hahahahaha. Seen it in full for first time now, just brilliant.

YOUR WRONG!!!!

[BigChief]

I had the sound on and no picture for a while. I could have sworn I was listening to David Brent. Someone tell me this isn't a spoof for Comic Relief and he's going to break into a robot dance or something?

[Shaggy]

Embarrassing. He's just trying to worm his way into Ferguson's little massive clique. Brown nosing *******.

[Buzzo]

What a ****ing basket case.
And looking to score brownie points from Ferguson is sooo Roy Hodgson.

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What a ****ing basket case.
And looking to score brownie points from Ferguson is sooo Roy Hodgson.

[MrShawnMichaels]

Fail

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Ahhh poor Slur Alex being bullied.

[kris90210]

Nah, he believes every word of it. It was us he was bigging up the other week.

Fair play, he's a character. I hope he stays in the premiership for a long time.

[Mostar]

Absolutely travesty. "Poor" Fergie.. **** him he got what he deserved. I only wish Wayne signs with us so Alex and his bitches can go ballistic..

[Shaggy]

What would Holloway have to say about the time he got frustrated by Plymouth's lack of ambition and walked out to take the Leicester job?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...Leicester.html

Leicester have moved closer to the appointment of a new manager after Ian Holloway resigned his position at Plymouth.

Holloway has been offered a large pay rise by Leicester chairman Milan Mandaric, who is currently looking to agree a compensation package with Plymouth.

Mandaric is thought to have offered Holloway a £400,000-per-year deal and the promise of funds to take Leicester back into the Premier League.

Plymouth confirmed that they will hold a board meeting after Holloway tendered his resignation.

A club statement read: "Plymouth Argyle confirm that Ian Holloway has tendered his resignation as manager of the club. The club has convened a board meeting for Friday this week where this will be considered.

"In the meantime, Ian continues to be employed by the club and subject to the terms of his contract of employment. No further comment will be made pending the board meeting this Friday."

Holloway, 44, took over at Plymouth in the summer of 2006 and led the club to an 11th-placed finish in his first season.

The side are currently seventh in the table but Holloway has grown increasingly frustrated by the lack of cash available to him.

Mandaric has spent the last two weeks searching for his third manager of the season, after the departure of Gary Megson, and interviewed Joe Royle, Jean Tigana and Graeme Souness.

[JohnDoe]

He's right though. Not brown nosing or anything there, we would have been just as furious had we been in this situation, with Torres for example.

[Vermilion]

He's right though. Not brown nosing or anything there, we would have been just as furious had we been in this situation, with Torres for example.

But that's not the point for me, it's the universal backing of Fergie and the scum from certain sections of the football world, we had it with Owen...did they all come out saying "wtf..it's wrong! leaving liverpool like that...holding them to ransom...a club who made him what he is"...did they ? Nope.