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Swindon Town boss Ian Holloway fears he’s a ‘dead man walking’

Ian Holloway admits he feels like a ‘Dead Man Walking’ at Swindon Town as he battles an injury crisis and a slow start to the League Two season.

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The LeaguePaper Team
4 October 2026

Concerned Swindon Town boss Ian Holloway

By Matt Badcock

Ian Holloway has delivered his fair share of box office press conferences down the years and the Swindon Town boss went viral again this week.
Ahead of yesterday’s crunch League Two clash with Rochdale, the former QPR, Blackpool and Grimsby Town chief assessed their on-going injury crisis and slow start to the new season.
Holloway says he hasn’t known a treatment room so busy with skipper Ollie Clarke, Matty Virtue and Paul Glatzel the latest to join the queue to see the physio.
With just three wins out of eight games – and three defeats heading into the Dale game – the 63-y...

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