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‘It’s a privilege to be a boss for one day let alone as long as I’ve done it’ – Ian Holloway

IAN HOLLOWAY CLOSES IN ON 1,000 GAME LANDMARK...
By John Lyons

HIGH POINT: Ian Holloway celebrates promotion to the Premier League with Blackpool in 2010
PICTURE: Alamy

There aren’t many managers who notch up 1,000 games – and with the way modern football is going, there will be even fewer in the future.
Over the last few years, Ian Holloway – stuck on 989 games after leaving Grimsby at the tail end of 2020 – must have wondered if he’d reach the landmark.
So when floundering Swindon Town gave him the call in late October to return to the dugout, the 61-year-old Bristolian jumped at the ...

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