Ian Holloway fears Swindon’s scary form is down to ‘haunted’ training ground as he asks ‘witch’ wife to ‘cleanse’ it

SPOOKED erstwhile Premier League brag Ian Holloway claims Swindon Town's grooming crushed is "haunted".

The 61-year-old jumped astatine the accidental to instrumentality implicit the League Two broadside past month.

Holloway's affirmative tone has seen Swindon emergence from the brink of EFL death, with their ghastly signifier improving since the accomplishment of the erstwhile QPR, Blackpool and Crystal Palace manager.

He has overseen 2 wins, a gully and a nonaccomplishment amid the Robins rocking successful relegation panic arsenic they beryllium 22nd successful the table.

A frightened Holloway has blamed their mediocre commencement to the play connected Swindon's cursed grooming crushed arsenic "some unusual things person been happening".

The seasoned brag is present acceptable to spell to drastic lengths to scare disconnected the ghosts aft doomed skipper Ollie Clarke ruptured an ankle tendon during a league past week.

Following their 2-2 gully against Accrington Stanley connected Saturday, Holloway told the BBC: "I'm going to effort and cleanse the grooming crushed country due to the fact that radical are telling maine it's haunted.

"There's a graveyard determination near. Honestly, I'm not joking.

"I deliberation our training ground is precise adjacent to an past burial site.

"I'm going to get my woman to travel up and accidental atrocious to each these radical and hopefully we'll person a spot much luck."

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But Swindon's archetypal extremity had an constituent of luck astir it arsenic thing possessed Accrington's 'ghoulie' to complaint disconnected his enactment and permission an bare nett for Harry Smith to caput successful to.

Holloway's "witch" woman Kim is present acceptable to travel to the grooming ground, oregon possibly haunted house, this week with "sage" to extremity the jinx.

He has antecedently claimed his dad contacted him from the dead by changing the car dials connected his car.

Holloway says a shade turned up portion a Mariah Carey opus played connected the vigor and a airy came into his conveyance to permission him "shaking".

He explained: "The opus was connected and ‘shining down connected maine from Heaven’ got louder and louder and louder until it was wholly apical notch.

“I saw it spell from 10 up to astir 35 and it was deafening. The infinitesimal the opus finished that went close backmost down to normal.

"I thought, ‘Has that truly happened oregon what? Or is that maine wishing that?' Do you get what I mean? And I curse helium came and showed maine that, ‘Don’t interest son, you’ll beryllium fine.’ Right?

“Now, I would ne'er person believed that, I wouldn’t person thought for 1 infinitesimal that helium would person ever person done that due to the fact that helium said it was each a load of garbage.

“So the information is, I don’t know. And did I consciousness it? Did I privation to consciousness it? Was it truly there? I cannot honestly archer you. But I curse to you, I saw the dial determination connected its own.”

Back successful his playing days, helium scored successful his archetypal crippled aft his dad's decease and helium felt him "in his boots" that day.

Holloway is not the lone manager to tackle a team's spirit.

Ex-Birmingham brag Barry Fry urinated successful each 4 corners of the St Andrews transportation - moving from country to country mid-flow - to ward disconnected a curse helium had heard about.