Glad All Over #2 : Will it be jolly for Oliie? Traditional Cache
Glad All Over #2 : Will it be jolly for Oliie?
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This cache is the second in an occasional series of Crystal Palace Football Club related caches. Partly they to celebrate events or individuals and also try to make up for the limited pre-match caching opportunities!
#2 in the series was set on Saturday 3rd November 2012 to celebrate the appointment of Ian Holloway as manager.
Holloway succeeded Dougie Freedman in the role who left to manage Bolton Wanderers after nearly two years in the role.
The cache is a magnetic nano, placed 30 minutes before the 2-0 victory over Blackburn (for which caretaker manager, Curtis Fleming, was in charge) on 03/11/12 in front of a crowd of 16,744!
Holloway, a midfielder, began his playing career at hometown club Bristol Rovers in 1981, going on to play for Wimbledon, Brentford, Torquay United (on loan), back to Bristol Rovers for a second spell, Queens Park Rangers and, finally, a third spell back at Bristol Rovers. In his last spell at Bristol Rovers he became player-manager before ending his playing career in 1999.
As well as Bristol Rovers, he has also previously managed QPR, Plymouth Argyle, Leicester City and Blackpool.
Perhaps he will be successful at Palace, but undoubtedly we will hear some great quotes! Here are some of his best.
"To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee" (on an "ugly" win against Chesterfield).
"Apparently it's my fault that the Titanic sank." (On criticism from Plymouth Argyle fans during Leicester City's match against Plymouth Argyle)
"I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark".
"If you're a burglar, it's no good poncing about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy".
"Why haven't they got cameras? The officials can speak to each other easily enough now. Why aren't we using laptops that are linked up and can give a decision in five seconds? A chimpanzee could do it - with not much training. We might as well go back to being cavemen, grab our girl by the hair, drag her into the cave whether she wants to come in or not because we may as well live in that age. We've come forward, haven't we?
"In the first-half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second-half we were like Real Madrid. We can't go on like that. At full-time I was at them like an irritated Jack Russell"
"I'd rather do that than build chicken sheds no-one wanted! (On Blackpool making the Championship play-off final in 2010 having spent a year out of football making hen houses").
“In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory’s throw. Call that cinnamon and he’s got a cinnamon flavoured cake. It’s not fair and it’s not right and it’s only a small part of what he does." (On Tony Pulis's style of management).
And my favourite: Reporter: "Ian, have you got any injury worries?" Holloway: "No, I'm fully fit, thank you".
As GPS readings were variable, I have used Google maps for the coordinates, but you may need the hint to help you locate the cache.
When logging your find electronically, it would be interesting to share who (if anyone) you consider to be the best football manager. I'd also like to see who's brave enough to try to find it on match days - remember that's when it was placed.
CONGRATULATIONS - FTF (and on a match day) Cache! Eh?
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