Two Long Years: Leeds 6 QPR 1 as Paladini "Summoned" a Sick Holloway up to Leeds

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Two Years ago...November 20, 2004: Leeds 6 QPR 1
Two years ago, highly-placed QPR travelled to Leeds, with rumours of Ian Holloway being interested in taking over at managerless Wolves. According to Ian Holloway Gianni Paladini (not-then Chairman) summoned a sick-at-home Ian Holloway up to Leeds "'You fucking bastard I am going to kill you. I am going to kill you, you fucking bastard... " After that game, Holloway spent some days in the hospital, recuperating.
QPR's Team that day - The last time QPR conceded six goals in a game! Day, Bignot, Shittu, Santos, Rose (Padula 11), Ainsworth, Bircham, Gallen, McLeod (Cook 45), Furlong, Cureton (Bean 45). Subs Not Used: Branco, Miller.

Holloway's Leeds "experience" was vividly described in Robert Chalmers/Independent profile and interview of Ian Holloway last November "In a league of his own"
'...Last year, Holloway recalls, he was at home, suffering from chronic diarrhoea, when he answered a call from Paladini.
"I was sat on the toilet - actually I couldn't leave the toilet. I had this virus. There had been rumours about me going to Wolves. Three days before, I'd bought flowers for some ladies in the office. Gianni assumed they were a leaving present."
So you were on the toilet...
"And Gianni was going: 'You fucking bastard I am going to kill you. I am going to kill you, you fucking bastard... where are you, you fucking... fucking hell where are you.'"
And you said...
"I am on the toilet. My wife is in the house. Ask her. He said: 'She could be at fucking Wolves with you.'"
In the end, Holloway says, he had to drive up to Leeds, to reassure the Italian. It was a journey he remembers.
"It was a terrible virus. It was coming out of both ends. I had to stop at every service station. I shouldn't have gone. It was horrendous. I was totally dehydrated. My lips were stuck to my teeth. I ended up in hospital, the following day. I was in for a week. I had six drips put into me."
Independent

Leeds 6 QPR 1
Match Report - November 20, 2004 Sporting Life Leeds 6 QPR 1
Leeds at last gave their long-suffering fans good reason to cheer by storming to their biggest win for nearly 18 months thanks to Brian Deane's four-goal haul at Elland Road.
Kevin Blackwell's side turned the Coca-Cola Championship table on its head, coming back from Gareth Ainsworth's stunning early opener for the visitors to hit six without reply - with veteran Deane, in his second spell for the Yorkshire club, the star of the show.
Defeat against high-flying QPR would have left Leeds dangerously close to the drop zone.
But they responded in style with David Healy chipping a fine equaliser seven minutes after Ainsworth's opener - his third goal in five games - and Deane tapping home his first four minutes later to give them the lead.
Jermaine Wright swept home a third at the second attempt, and Deane added his second and then completed a first-half hat-trick in the space of two minutes shortly before the interval.
Healy saw his second-half penalty well saved by visiting goalkeeper Chris Day, but Deane added his fourth soon afterwards to complete the rout.
It is the first time Leeds have scored five or more goals in a competitive match since April 2003 when they put six past Charlton in the Premiership.
Ainsworth rocked Leeds when he unleashed an unstoppable rising drive from the edge of the penalty area, leaving goalkeeper Neil Sullivan motionless.
But then Gary Kelly swung over a cross from the right - and when Deane's flick-on found Healy the Irishman's deft first touch gave him time to chip the ball over stranded goalkeeper Day.
Boosted by such a quick response, Leeds swept forward again - and when Wright's drilled cross-shot flashed invitingly across goal Day hesitated and was punished by Deane who tapped home from three yards.
Leeds were rampant. Deane had a further effort ruled out for offside in the 17th minute, and Healy curled a right-footer from 20 yards which Georges Santos did well to clear.
The visitors were rocked again, though, in the 23rd minute when Leeds grabbed a third.
QPR failed to clear a long throw - and although Day blocked Wright's initial effort, the former Ipswich midfielder followed up to fire home the rebound to give Leeds a two-goal cushion.
Deane converted Wright's cross to make it 4-1 just before the interval and then fired home from the edge of the area after being played in by Kelly.
QPR boss Ian Holloway replaced Jamie Cureton and Kevin McLeod with Marcus Bean and Lee Cook respectively during the interval.
Leeds maintained their fine form, though, and could even afford the luxury of a missed penalty midway through the second half when Bean was adjudged to have brought down Simon Walton - Healy's placed spot-kick saved by Day.
But Blackwell's side extended their lead further when Deane claimed his fourth, sweeping home John Oster's cross in the 72nd minute.
The 36-year-old striker left the field to a standing ovation when replaced by Aaron Lennon in the closing stages, with a fourth home win of the season already secured in some style.
Teams
Leeds Sullivan, Kelly, Carlisle, Butler, Pugh, Walton (Richardson 90), Gregan, Wright, Oster, Deane (Lennon 86), Healy (Joachim 77).
Subs Not Used: Carson, Kilgallon.
Goals: Healy 9, Deane 13, Wright 23, Deane 42, 44, 72.
QPR Day, Bignot, Shittu, Santos, Rose (Padula 11), Ainsworth, Bircham, Gallen, McLeod (Cook 45), Furlong, Cureton (Bean 45).
Subs Not Used: Branco, Miller.
Booked: Bircham.
Goals: Ainsworth 2.
Att: 29,739
Ref: C Webster (Tyne & Wear).
Sporting Life