Swindon manager Holloway says club’s injury problems could be down to training ground being haunted | OneFootball

Swindon Town manager Ian Holloway has claimed the club’s bad injury luck could be down to the training ground being haunted.

Holloway was appointed as the new Swindon manager in October, with the club currently a point above the League Two relegation zone.

The club’s captain, Ollie Clarke, ruptured a tendon in his ankle during training last week to add to Holloway’s injury problems.

And the former Blackpool, Crystal Palace and QPR boss says he might know the reason behind his team’s injury problems.

“I’m absolutely devastated so I’m going to try to cleanse the training ground area because people are telling me it’s haunted,” Holloway told BBC Radio Wiltshire.

“Seriously, there’s a graveyard somewhere near. I’m not joking.

“I think our training ground is very close to an ancient burial site so I’m going to get my wife to come up and say sorry to all these people and hopefully we’ll have a bit more luck. But you have to earn your luck.”

Former Birmingham manager Barry Fry once reportedly urinated in every corner of the pitch at St Andrew’s to fight off a supposed curse on the club, but Holloway said he would stop short of that.

“I don’t want to do what he did, I think he had to urinate on the corners of his pitch but I’m going to get my wife to come up with her sage,” Holloway said.

“I’ve done the old Glastonbury stuff and the hail and welcome, all of that, great if you believe it. Do I? I’m not really sure but I’m going to get it just to try, just to help because there’s some strange things happening. Really, really strange.”