Ian Holloway on His QPR, Managerial Contracts and Gardening Leave

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BBC - Ian Holloway Column

"...I think you've got to think very hard about the sort of contracts you take on in life - and the same with relationships.
I saw a programme about Jose Mourinho the other night and he was going on about being in love. He's in love with people, he's in love with life and he was in love with his job - and if you fall out of love with it then I can understand people changing.
But let's be perfectly honest, these managers' contracts aren't really worth the paper they're written on.
How can someone take your job, the job that you're paid to do, that you have a contract to do?
You're sat at home in your garden and someone else is doing your job and you haven't had your money paid up. How does that work?
You've got to sit in your house and you're not allowed to say a bloomin' word to defend yourself because they'll rip the contract away from you for putting the club into disrepute.
I had it last year. The style of play that my team, QPR, was supposed to have played was long ball, booting it here and booting it there. Was it hell! What a load of rubbish - get some of the videos out.
There's a lot of things wrong with football and there's a lot of things wrong with life. Life doesn't do fair things - you've just got to get on with it. BBC