Trodde du at gode sitater fra trenermunn er en saga blott etter at Mourinho tok kamelhårsfrakken sin og gikk fra Chelsea?

Plymouth Argyle er et fotballag som spiller på nest øverste nivå i England, i "The Championship". Treneren deres er Ian Holloway som har blitt en kultfigur på grunn av sine mange fargerike uttalelser. I sin karriere som spiller gjorde Holloway  seg bemerket som en kjapp midtbanespiller på lag som Brentford, Wimbledon, Bristol Rovers og QPR. I sin trenerkarriere har han ledet Bristol Rovers og QPR, før han overtok treneransvaret for Plymouth Argyle før 2006/2007 sesongen.

Let's have coffee
I 2004 ble det utgitt en bok med noen av hans beste uttalelser. Her er noen høydepunkt:

Etter et tap:
"Right now, everything is going wrong for me - if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb!"

Nedrykksstrid med QPR:
"The fat lady hasn't started to sing yet, but she has a mic in her hand."

Beskytte en ledelse:
"It's no good counting your chickens. Even if we're 2-0 up with five minutes to go on Saturday, don't think we've already done it, we've got to kill it off, hold people down and strangle the life out of them."

Seier etter en dårlig kamp:
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She weren't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have coffee"

Etter å ha rykket opp:
"Every dog has its day, and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark!"

Tap mot Notts County:
"We need a big, ugly defender. If we had one of them we'd have dealt with County's first goal by taking out the ball, the player and the first three rows of seats in the stands."

Om den rutinerte spissen Paul Furlong:
"Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings."

Tap mot Watford i FA-cupen:
"We threw everything at them. The kitchen sink, golf clubs, emptied the garage and threw it at them. Unfortunately, it was not enough, but at least my garage is tidy."

Om spissyrket:
"You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go."

Kilde: Let's have Coffee - The Tao of Ian Holloway

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