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Ian Holloway gets sent off after players and staff clash during Swindon’s pre-season friendly

Ian Holloway gets sent off after players and staff clash during Swindon’s pre-season friendly with Costa City in Alicante.

The game played out to a 1-0 win for the League Two side, Fletcher Holman getting the only goal of the game on 76 minutes.

But the main talking point saw Holloway shown a red card, with Swindon Advertiser told that a player for Costa City had hit the ball into Holloway’s face from close range, with Holloway falling to ground.

He lost his cool, pushed the player over, which then saw players and coaching staff in an altercation.

Swindon Advertiser were informed by Swindon Town that Holloway had been left furious with “unsportsmanlike conduct from their player off the field.”

Ian Holloway spoke to the club’s media at their warm weather training camp , saying before the game: “The lads have been excellent cuz the place is excellent. Normally they’ll find something that’s wrong with it, but they can’t, being an ex footballer myself, it’s easy to moan about how hot things are, but the lads have been excellent cuz the place is.

“So, it’s a new venue. It’s a new resort. It’s going to be over run cuz it’s so good. The pitch pitches are brilliant, the staff are so helpful, water everywhere. So, that’s what you normally need over here. So, it’s been excellent. Absolutely. Food’s fantastic. Highly recommend it to any any sports club with us looking for a venue to go and have excellent everywhere, you know. So delighted that the club have done this for us.

“It’s tough for the lads, but we’re getting to know each other. We’re working hard. They’re doing two or three sessions every day to try and get some unity back to move forward. So absolutely delighted. Just a tad hot for me, I must admit.

“I’ve done a couple of things myself because I don’t like giving somebody to do something without knowing what it’s like. And I cannot assure you it’s absolutely exhausting what they’re doing.

“And I’m delighted in the effort and the work and the togetherness and they’re driving each other on, you know, and that’s all that matters. So, get the odd niggle here and there, bang a bit of ice on it, away we go. And saw Fletcher Holman actually sat in the ice dispenser machine earlier on, you know, so bit of fun as well. So, no, it’s great. They’ve been working hard getting some understanding and um hopefully that’ll show in pre season.

On team moral: “Yeah, that’s what’s difficult these days to get a group and get a group mentality. And it’s interesting in the World Cup, isn’t it? When you see things are being turned over, is that because of the player skill or is it because they drive each other and they want it and they if you look at Belgium row the other day where they were having a massive row in the middle of the pitch, Tielemans and Trossard, they had a full-on almost fight and then one of them sets up the equaliser, you know.

“So, it’s about being able to say that to each other and but when you’ve worked hard and you’ve gone through more than you thought you can and that’s why the relentlessness of we’re going again, we’re training again and we have a game tomorrow, we’re training in the morning.

“The work we’re getting into them teaches them that you can do an awful lot more than you thought you could, but you can’t do it without your teammates encouraging you, you know.

“So, that that’s the thing. They’ve been coming to me talking, asking if they don’t understand something, they’re I’m getting them to come and work work through it because it’s no good me understanding it if they don’t.

“So, absolutely vital. Delighted with everything. I would just turn down the heat a little bit. You know, I think 41 it was yesterday and you could hardly breathe. It was that hot. You could hardly breathe.

“But never mind. They’ve done it. will keep going and touch wood they’ll remember this and take it into the season. That’s all that matters really.”

Here’s how fans reacted as Ian Holloway gets sent off after players and staff clash during Swindon’s pre-season friendly…

@Jimbokav1971: Ian Holloway in Alicante with Swindon is not any calmer than Ian Holloway in England with Swindon. Sent off for punching opppsition player in response to ball being smashed at his face from close range? Seems pretty reasonable. #EFL #League2 ⚽️

@TrevorSTFC: These things happen sometimes in football, what you cannot do as a manager is react like this to them. He’s an idiot, full of ego and without doubt a distraction to those trying to play for the club. #stfc

@Tays85: Doesn’t bode well. Many of us felt that his lack of discipline and reliance cost us last season when under pressure… Maybe this was Fin Munroe’s fault too 😂

@Frogfoot67: I agree and am not making excuses for his reaction, but this is a man who wears hearing aids and has recently recovered from skin cancer surgery to his face. Getting smacked in the head with a football must have fucking hurt.

@TrevorSTFC: Sit in the stands then. His “go to” reaction in any circumstance is to have a pop. The bloke is a grade A prick.

@OliverMill82228: joke of a gaffer, it’s a pre season friendly ffs. how can he expect the players to have discipline if he doesn’t himself

@ftblojn1: Let me smash a ball in your face from two yards away princess we’ll see how you react

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