Go away Golloway

I've been biting my tongue since Villa's victory over Blackpool a few months back - but his pathetic comments are not the first time he's disrespected Gerard Houllier this season, let alone AVFC.

Rewind to that November night and back then Holloway had already completed his transformation from refreshingly candid media darling to a ridiculous caricature of himself.

If you can recall, it was the evening Holloway made wholesale changes to his team and, to their credit, Blackpool reserves came within a minute of clinching a point against the claret and blues.

Fair enough, it's impossible to take issue with anything that the Seasiders are doing on the football pitch at the moment.

But after the match, Holloway showed about as much self control as a (DELETED FOR LEGAL REASONS).

I remember sitting in Houllier's post match press conference when the Villa boss was asked a perfectly legitimate question by a journalist pal of mine about whether he expected Holloway to face charges from the FA for his team selection.

The hack wasn't suggesting Blackpool should be punished, indeed the general consensus in the room was that the Prem rules are ridiculous and managers should be able to field any permutation of players from their first team squads.

But, after Wolves and Mick McCarthy were fined in similar circumstances last season, it was a valid line of enquiry.

Gerard was just mulling over his answer when he was rudely interrupted by what at first listen sounded like Vicky Pollard.

It transpired that Holloway had been sitting at the back of the press conference room, but rather than showing the decorum expected of visiting managers, jumped to his feet and started answering Houllier's question for him.

But not even in a polite, courteous way. Instead Holloway waved his hands around at the reporter saying 'How dare you ask such a question....ra, ra, blah, blah, etc etc...I can do whatever I want...I'll quit.... yeah but, no but, yeah but.'

Yes, we know that Ian, that's what we were getting at, if you could close that massive mouth for just a minute and pay attention.

Now, perhaps I'm being over-protective of my working environment, but he was in OUR press room, for someone else's press conference and he was ranting and raving as if he owned the place before storming back out like erm, Vicky Pollard again. And that's after insulting TalkSport's former BRMB reporter Ian Danter among other interviewers.

How would he like it if we burst into his dugout and started shouting the odds at him?

"Manager on a dodgy wicket"?, Ian. That would be the same manager who has won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup, League Cup and French titles compared to your Second Division runners-up triumph at QPR and play-off win with Blackpool. Oh, not forgetting last season's South West Challenge Cup success.

"Half-a***d place that used to be famous?" Last time I looked Villa had finished sixth in the Premier League three years running, made two Wembley appearances last season, been in the top flight for more than 20 years and, yes it's in the past, but can boast a European Cup, First Division titles and seven FA Cups among their considerable honours.

Blackpool might be above Villa now, but save all this nonsense until you have had more than six months in the big-time, Holloway.

Remember, this is a man who preached loyalty to Wayne Rooney a couple of years after walking out on Plymouth to join Leicester. Your memory's as short as your fuse.

As for the Charlie Adam bid. Villa have acted completely above board in going through the official channels. It wasn't leaked at this end, so news of their interest emerged either via an agent or from Bloomfield Road.

In fact, if Holloway could keep quiet for long enough to check with his chairman, he might just find that, far from being told not to bother bidding by the Blackpool board, Villa were actually encouraged to submit their formal offer.

"£3.5 million? Someone must be pulling my plonker". There's only one plonker with a questionable pull - that's you Ian Holloway.