Crystal Palace enjoyed the fairytale of winning promotion to the Premier League via the play offs. A lot can be said about the Premier League new boys.
However, having Ian Holloway back in the Premier League is, to the neutrals amongst us, the best thing about this promoted side.
Never one to bow down to the club’s PR and Media Team who want safe post-match comments like ‘it was a tough game, against a strong side’, ‘we worked hard to this result’ etc, Holloway has always been a manager to express himself in his very own, brilliant way.
Below are some of my favourite quotes from Mr Holloway.
Hopefully, more to come this season.
Do yourself a favour and please try and look out for any post-match interviews after Palace games this season.
Long live Hamster Time
• He [Cristiano Ronaldo) is six foot something, fit as a flea, good looking – he’s got to have something wrong with him. Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster – That would make us all feel better.
• 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.
• I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal. They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. Of course, they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.
• Every dog has its day, and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark!
• It’s all very well having a great pianist playing, but it’s no good if you haven’t got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.
• You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I’m like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.
• I couldn’t be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season.
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