Holloway describes ‘elaborate coup’ to remove him from QPR job

Ian Holloway says someone once pretended to be offering him the Nigeria manager’s job as part of an “elaborate coup” to force him out of QPR.

The telephone call is said to have taken place during Holloway’s first spell as Rangers boss.

Speaking to The Sack Race, he said: “When I was at QPR I once had someone phone me up pretending to be an official from Nigeria, saying ‘we want you to be our manager’, but then I felt it could have been one of the QPR directors trying to get me to look like I was two-faced.

“It was an elaborate coup to try and get me out at QPR, so I just laughed at them and said: ‘you’re not from Nigeria, I’m not interested, I’ve got a very nice job now thank you very much’.”