Source: Telegraph
Ian Holloway: I am not leaving Blackpool for West Ham to replace Grianfranco Zola
Holloway, along with Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce and Cardiff's Dave Jones, had been linked with the post vacated by the Italian last week, though Portsmouth manager Avram Grant remains the overwhelming favourite to be appointed. [LNB]'It is pie in the sky, to be perfectly honest,' said Holloway, whose side face Cardiff at Wembley on Saturday in a game estimated to be worth around £90 million. 'I am more than happy with the football club I have got here. [LNB] Related ArticlesPremier League powerless to ban rapistHolloway proud after Blackpool draw first bloodBlackpool 2 Nottingham Forest 1Blackpool 1 Leicester City 2Blackpool 2 West Brom 3Blackpool 1 Bristol City 1'What people do not understand is how I feel about this place. (The West Ham speculation) is just a distraction. I do not want it. We are just getting on and doing our job.' [LNB]Holloway has compared that job as a similar amount of work to organising a wedding as Blackpool's plans for the play-off final take shape. [LNB]The squad will travel to London on Thursday but, that aside, the former Plymouth, QPR and Leicester manager is adamant that the club's preparation will be the same as it would be for any ordinary league game. [LNB]'It is like trying to organise a wedding,' he said. 'Who wants to come? Who is doing this, who is doing that? We did not pre-empt anything by doing anything beforehand because that would have been disrespectful, so it has been a bad few days but we are out of the back of it now. [LNB]'Our suits came on Thursday, we are travelling down on Thursday and once we do that everything is sorted. The only pressure we have had is with our families. Uncle so and so wants to come and how are they going to get there? All of that is just a total distraction because we do not have that away at Peterborough, so why should we have it for what is just another game? [LNB]'We have got to keep it as close to what we normally do as possible, which is very difficult when you are going to Wembley.' [LNB]
