- Ian Holloway says ‘unusual issues’ are occurring at Swindon’s Beversbrook base
- He’s calling in his spouse, Kim, to try to kind out the ‘haunted’ coaching facility
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Ian Holloway is hoping his spouse can flush out the ghoulies from Swindon’s ‘haunted’ coaching floor.
The Robins’ supervisor fears ‘unusual issues’ are going down at Beversbrook Sports activities and Group facility, the place the League Two membership prepare.
Captain Ollie Clarke ruptured a tendon in his ankle final week and Holloway, who was appointed in October, thinks the supernatural may very well be concentrating on his beleagured aspect.
‘I am completely devastated so I will try to cleanse the coaching floor space as a result of individuals are telling me it is haunted,’ he advised BBC Radio WIltshire.
‘There is a graveyard someplace close to. Actually, I am not joking.
Swindon City supervisor Ian Holloway says he’s calling in his spouse, Kim, to ‘cleanse’ Swindon’s ‘haunted’ coaching floor (pictured whereas he was managing Blackpool)
Holloway was appointed supervisor of struggling League Two aspect Swindon again in October
The ‘haunted’ web site: Swindon prepare at Beversbrook Sports activities and Group Facility in Calne

‘I believe our coaching floor may be very near an historical burial web site so I will get my spouse to return up and ask for forgiveness to all these folks and hopefully we’ll have a bit extra luck.’
Mail Sport is uncertain which graveyard Holloway is referring to, although the Beversbook facility borders an enormous community of fields. Curzon Road Cemetery is 1.6 miles away on foot – fairly a distance for a ghost to traverse, one would possibly assume.
Swindon are literally endeavor work to discover a facility to deal with all the membership, with the ladies’s group and academy principally coaching at Basis Park.
Former Birmingham supervisor Barry Fry seemingly urinated within the corners of the membership’s St Andrew’s floor to dispel a 100-year-old curse, although Holloway insisted he wouldn’t be going that far.
‘I do not need to do what he did. I believe he needed to urinate on the corners of his pitch however I will get my spouse to give you her sage,’ Holloway stated.
‘I’ve finished the Glastonbury stuff and the hail and welcome – nice if you happen to consider it. Do I? Actually I am unsure however I will get it simply to assist as a result of there’s some unusual issues occurring.’
Holloway’s spouse, Kim, has been by his aspect throughout a chaotic profession in soccer.
In 2022 he revealed that that they had moved home collectively 48 instances.
Holloway has gained two of his 4 video games in command of Swindon however they’re battling the drop
‘That’s an excessive amount of for me to ask, it’s virtually a bit egocentric,’ he stated.
Since then he has taken up his job with Swindon, his tenth managerial job, virtually 4 years after leaving Grimsby City.
With the Wiltshire membership twenty second in League Two, Holloway can be hoping for not less than yet another favour from Kim to maintain his managerial profession on monitor.
At the very least his file up to now would possibly go some solution to dispelling the figurative demons – of two wins, a draw, and a defeat in 4 video games is hardly essentially the most horrifying.



















