Ian Holloway

"had a late penalty for hand ball, did anyone see that?"

The ball hit our players boot that was raised off the ground. It was an embarassing and desperate call from Holloway.

Holloway was a disgrace and after his tenure here you would have thought he would have kept his head down at the KP stadium.

I think Claridge was fair and always is with Leicester. He didn't intimate we didn't play well at all but we did get the luck today and we deserved to. The konchesky foul was not a pen I think he is wrong about that but I think we expect him to wax lyrical about us cos he used to play here.

I think he did intimate that, you think he didn't; it's subjective and quite redundant in the greater scheme of things I guess.

There is clearly lots of evidence from last year to at least provide a supported argument that he hasn't always been fair to Leicester. There was even an episode of the 'football league show' where he mentioned the fact that he may have come across this way and he almost was at the stage of directly apologising.

I certainly don't expect him to be in our favour, in fact I would find it cringe-worthy.

I do generally expect objectiveness but more importantly, I definitely expect him, after looking at God-knows how many replays, to get a pretty basic decision on a penalty-or-not, correct.

Don't get me wrong, he makes several misinformed comments about tactics and such with other teams, there are plenty of fans who moan about him. But I guess I reference Leicester because I pay more attention to his comments about us, certainly not because I expect him to be blindly subjective.

Well he never liked MM and felt Leicester were badly run under his tenure and he didn't like Sven. I'm with him on both accounts and I guess because he used to play for Leicester he has pretty strong views about the club

In my view he was very fair last night but was wrong about penalty incident which isn't a massive deal in my book

'Whilst he can be amusing to watch, the problem with Holloway is that he doesn't have any self respect. He is quite willing to be thought of as the eccentric fool or cartoon manager and actually revels in being laughed at rather than with.'

But even worse, he then turns around at times and whinges about being considered a clown. But Ian, if you act like one what do you expect?

He's also got a serious inferioirty complex about his team - he's not only a sore loser but a sore winner - see after the play-off games that he won in 09/10.

"I guess because he (Ollie) used to play for us"

When was this?

I do hope I am not coming across as being pedantic but someone user's profile mentions Jock Stein as being our boss at some stage. When was this?

...or someone's user profile even.

I guess the singing W is a W is true beyond argument now.

I actually detested his clown comments when he managed us.

The only thing that irked me about Holloway's behaviour was the fact that he stormed off without shaking hands. It's not Pearson's fault that the decisions weren't given in his favour and this was very poor form.

Incidentally watching the game in the ground I didn't think that any of the incidents were penalties. Watching it back on the TV later the only penalty that should have been given was the foul on Dyer so I suppose it evened itself up in the end.

Personally, I like Holloway. It didn't work out for him here, but at the time I'm not sure anyone would have succeeded with what he ahd to deal with. Apart from at City, he has proved time and again that he is a good coach whose teams play an exciting attacking brand of football.
He was wrong not to shake hands with NP, but he was clearly frustrated by the penalty. He may come out with some clown-like comments on the TV but I reckon he brightens the game up. Where would we be if all managers had NP's PR skills!
Regards the match though I thought City were very good and NP won the tactical battle of the dug-outs