Breaking News: DJ Campbell praises Ian Holloway as Blackpool gear up for the holiday season
Blackpool’s new striker, DJ Campbell has admitted that Ian Holloway is a special manager. Campbell joined Blackpool in the summer before the transfer window deadline hit on 1st of September, 2010. In the English Premier
League, Blackpool have surprised everyone with their performances thus far as they have defied all odds to retain a 10th place finish in the 2010-2011 season up till now. It has clearly been a memorable season for Blackpool under their manager,
Ian Holloway.
Ian Holloway was about to leave in the summer amidst reports of discontent inside the Blackpool camp after it was revealed that the club might not have enough transfer money to reinforce the squad that finished 6th in
the Championship in the 2009-2010 season. Ian Holloway has emerged as a good man-manager in the present season as he has led Blackpool to crucial wins over http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 at Anfield and Newcastle United at Saint James’s Park. Such results have put him in the hiring
zone for much bigger clubs in the Premier League.
Everyone thought before the season began that Blackpool were destined for relegation come May of 2011 but as their performances have already suggested, they might secure a top half finish in their maiden season in the Premier League.
However, Blackpool’s manager, Ian Holloway has recently been linked to the management job at Blackburn http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rovers-c40385 after the club fired their manager, Sam Allardyce. Nonetheless, these reports have not yet been acknowledged by Ian Holloway himself who is set to
remain in charge of Blackpool at least for the foreseeable future.
DJ Campbell, who was bought by Blackpool for 1 million pounds and in doing so he became the most expensive signing that the club has ever made praised Ian Holloway in his latest interview, speaking about Holloway, Campbell said
“I would not be surprised if anyone else was interested in him because he's doing such a fantastic job. If he were to leave the club it would be hard but he would leave as a legend."
He went onto say, "I think that a lot of managers have seen how we are playing and thought 'if Blackpool are having a go, why don't we?' In the last 10 years of watching the Premier League I've not seen so many of the promoted
and so-called smaller teams having a go at the big teams. I think that is because of us - we have gone and had a go.”
He concluded by stating, "We went defensive at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 and lost. That taught us a lesson. We knew it would be tough playing against world-class players but we have that belief that if we go for it, we will stay up. We are almost
halfway through the season and if we can replicate and better what we have done then we will definitely survive. We have even surprised ourselves. There were people saying that we would be relegated and that we wouldn't get 10 points."
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