Blackpool Get Their Miracle
He’s mad, barmy and funny and yesterday Ian Holloway made it to the big time. For the first time in four decades Blackpool are in the Premier League and the famed tangerine dream is well underway. Of course the staggering £95 million (the biggest windfall in world sport) that they will receive has to be invested in a new look team- and therefore extremely sensibly.
I still think that the financial club model used by West Bromwich Albion is the most commendable in world football. Playing within your means should always be applauded, especially in the present climate, and Holloway would do well to carry on that tradition created in the Black Country. The thing is; his transfer budget has more than octupled.
Blackpool legend Sir Stanley Mathews would have been proud.
Holloway has recently expressed his desire to be seen as a serious manager, somebody who isn’t laughed at, derided or sneered at,
“I’m not a clown, an idiot or a madcap. I am just a human being who likes to encourage other people.”
Good timing too as after a journey that has been punctuated by bizarre behaviour, quips and hilarious anecdotes; Olly has reached a very sensible and personal peak!
Fielding a 4-3-3 formation at Wembley is unbelievably brave, especially against a team of Cardiff’s stature that included two very decent strikers in Michael Chopra and Jay Bothroyd.
