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Ollie: The Autobiography of Ian Holloway | 
| Author: Ian Holloway
Publisher: Green Umbrella Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 17640
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1906229171
EAN: 9781906229177
ASIN: 1906229171
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
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 Enjoyable read March 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
To be honest, I probably wouldn't have ever considered buying this book. But I entered a competition with Ginsters and won a signed copy.
Despite the fact that he has gone to Leicester (I'm a Forest fan) and I should therefore hate the guy, I enjoyed the book and learned a lot about a guy I had always considered to be a complete fruitcake.
The story of an honest bread and butter footballer and manager, not a superstar, and all the more enjoyable for that.
Just about OK March 6, 2008
As football books go it is just about a stocking filler and will take a very short time to read.
I feel IH has missed a trick here as I find him to be one of those people I have time for on the television but this isnt even mildly amusing. Some good info about his wife and children that shows what a challenge life has been for them. But in all honesty it would not rate too highly on my list of top sports books.
Ollie warts and all February 21, 2008
Ollie is a man with obvious limitations but raises a grin more than most and it's refreshing to have someone mad as a box of frogs doing press reports rather than Arsene "Not Really Very Amusing" Wenger or Sir Alex "Masticator General" Ferguson. Obviously they are far better managers than Ollie so I expect neither would be especially hurt by my verdict. If you are in a good mood (I read this on Boxing Day with a bellyful of mum's trifle) then one is willing to overlook the sentimentality and, given that you didn't expect this to be Alain de Botton, then just have the odd chuckle and leave it be.
 Spoilt the read, January 9, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I started reading my copy and must admit I was thoroughly enjoying it. Then Ollie ruined it all by going on local TV rubbishing his link to the Leicester job one week, proclaiming his loyality to Plymouth Argyle, then walking out to take the job the next. Fair enough, lots more money and everyone would change employers, but the extremes of his capacity to lie about things makes reading any more of his book pointless. Shame.
 Everyone's buddy, olly. January 6, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a QPR fan I must admit to some bias but I found the honesty and sincerity of this book thoroughly refreshing. A hard working midfielder in the club's premiership days, it is actually as a manager during some of the club's blackest years that Holloway will be remembered. This account gives his insider thoughts on some of those difficult times, but fans of Bristol Rovers and Plymouth Argyle should also find a lot of interesting information about their clubs in the book. The parallel story of his family life makes moving reading. For an account of the highs and lows of nitty gritty football life, this book would be hard to beat. Thoroughly recommended and good luck to Holloway at Leicester City.
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