A Quote by Ian Holloway
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish
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Chelsea is a club which should be in the Champions League every season, which should finish in the top four every season, should be in the title race.
A club like Tottenham are up there with the top teams, and I think they have to be in the Champions League.
I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?
It's important to get a good start at a top club like Real. When things are going badly, you can overcome it quickly at a top club.
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .
Bayern are like Real Madrid - a club at the highest level. They always want to win titles and are used to always having to win. Without question, Bayern is a top club.
It's no secret that I think that MLS is a top five, top six league in the world but they're not the top league.
I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.
I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.
When the club offers you the job, they say what the club expects from you. If the club says to you, 'I want you to win the Champions League, the Premier League, the Carabao Cup,' you say, 'OK, you want to win this and this and this? Can you give me this and this and this?'
My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.
A club like Liverpool has to be involved in Europe, whether it is the Europa League or Champions League.
At a club like Liverpool, you have to win everything possible, and you have to play for both - the Premier League and the Champions League.
You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.
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