Ian Holloway on Gregory Sacking ...and also the Stoke/QPR "Incident"

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BBC - Ian Holloway Column

... JOHN GREGORY SACKED
It's madness. It's a merry-go-round in the Championship, I'm afraid, because some chairmen have got no patience.
They don't realise how tight it is in that division - Roy Keane took Sunderland from the bottom to the top last year, Iain Dowie did it a few years before that.
It's very difficult to be consistent because everybody's much of a muchness - unlike the Premier League where you can more or less predict who's going to finish in the top four already. At least our division's got a bit of interest, but the downside is that people are losing their jobs left right and centre.
I've only been gone from QPR for 16 months and they've had three different managers since then. That's stability, isn't it?
In fairness they have got a new board with some big money people coming in and they probably want their own man. John would have known that, but I thought he did a really good job to keep them up last season and I told him that.
We all go into this job waiting for the axe to fall on the back of our necks."

re Dida
Well done to that fan because he didn't half get away sharpish. I tell you what, if Dida wants to get hold of you he's going to do some damage because he's massive, isn't he? That fan is definitely braver than I would have been.
But Dida's reaction after that was a bit stupid. What was he doing? Because the bloke didn't really hurt him, did he? He let the side down a bit there. It was pathetic, like an old silent movie, a bit of slapstick.
We don't want to see any of that, but then we don't want to see fans on the pitch hitting players either.
I had that a few years ago with QPR at Stoke. One bloke tried to beat up my goalie, they ended up rolling about in the net - and we ended up getting fined! I couldn't believe it.
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