‘My football club is haunted – I’m getting my wife to perform an exorcism’

Former Premier League manager Ian Holloway claims his caller nine Swindon Town is ‘haunted’ and has asked his woman to ‘cleanse the country with sage’.

After astir 4 years distant from the dugout, cult-hero Holloway precocious made his managerial instrumentality to instrumentality complaint of struggling League Two broadside Swindon.

His accomplishment has yielded a turnaround successful form, with the Robins winning 2 and drafting 1 of 4 games nether the caller boss.

Both victories person travel successful the cupful competitions however, with Holloway needing to amended the league signifier with his broadside conscionable a constituent supra the relegation zone.

But portion astir managers successful his presumption volition look to motion caller players oregon coaches, the 61-year-old is alternatively successful hunt of an exorcist amid claims that Swindon’s grooming crushed successful Calne is cursed.

This content has lone grown stronger acknowledgment to a drawstring of first-team injuries. Ollie Clarke is the latest to autumn victim, with the midfielder ruled retired for a period with an ankle issue.

‘I americium perfectly devastated [by Clarke’s injury], truthful I americium going to effort and cleanse the grooming crushed country due to the fact that radical are telling maine it is haunted,’ Holloway said.

‘Seriously, determination is simply a graveyard determination near, I americium not joking. My woman watches this bloke connected YouTube, Caspersight, and helium goes “It was built connected a graveyard!”.

‘I deliberation that our grooming crushed is precise adjacent to an past burial site, truthful I americium going to get my woman to travel up and accidental atrocious to each of these radical and hopefully we volition person a spot much luck.’

Superstitions are thing caller successful football, with legendary Leeds manager Don Revie notably having an exorcism connected Elland Road successful bid to assistance a ‘gypsy’s curse’.

Former Birmingham brag Barry Fry was besides acrophobic that a ‘gypsy’s curse’ was plaguing their crushed and reportedly urinated connected each 4 corners of the St. Andrews transportation successful bid to ward disconnected evil spirits.

The eccentric Holloway, who antecedently managed Blackpool and Crystal Palace successful the top-flight, revealed helium was inspired by Fry’s communicative but would not beryllium taking specified drastic action.

‘I don’t privation to bash what helium did, I deliberation helium had to urinate successful the corners of his pitch, but I americium not doing that,’ helium added.

‘I americium going to get my woman up with her sage, I person done the aged Glastonbury stuff, the “hail and welcome” and each of that worldly – it is brilliant.

‘It is large if you judge successful it. Do I? I americium not sure. But I volition get her to effort conscionable to assistance due to the fact that determination are immoderate unusual things happening, determination truly are.’

Only clip volition archer if the cleansing works, with Swindon adjacent successful enactment connected Saturday erstwhile they big relegation rivals Morecambe.

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