[And this is what Ian Holloway was saying about QPR and Dowie a year ago
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"...Holloway also chatted about his experience at QPR, whom he managed for five years with relative success considering the difficult financial position the club was in during his reign.
Things are very different at Loftus Road these days following a takeover by multi-millionaires Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore, but Holloway insists money won't necessarily guarantee success.
However, he believes that Iain Dowie is the right man to win promotion for QPR, as long as he is allowed to do things his way.
"At the end of the day if Iain Dowe's given the chance to spend money, he's got a proven record of taking a team to the Premier League. I hope it works for him.
"You're talking about new directors and new owners and with the greatest respect to them, they have to learn that this is a different business and you have to trust people who know what they're doing.
"It must be difficult for them because they've got all the money in the world, but it's about building a spirit within the squad that is strong. Sometimes that doesn't happen no matter how much money you've got.
"I believe Iain will do it and I'm very proud that I was left holding that baby at a time when no-one else wanted to.
"I had five different boards at that football club. They were on about merging with Wimbledon, which would never have worked, and I'm proud of what every one of us achieved at that club - the players and Kenny Jackett when he joined me. We were in administration and we literally couldn't buy a bar of soap without asking the administrators.
"It's a great club and I hope their fans are given what they want, which is top-flight football again."
Holloway says he is keen to return to football management when a job comes along, despite the difficulties and the frustrations of working in professional football.
"It's the politics that kills you in management, it really does," he added.
"You can never really make a decision. You've always got to get it through other people. You've got your players and you've got your squad, but you're never totally and utterly in control.
"It's everywhere. Any manager can try to make decisions - you can buy a player, but if he gets injured then before you know it you've lost your main striker. You're not really in control.
"What you do is you learn to firefight and you get on with it. The clubs I've been at I've always had to do that because I've had limited budgets." SkySports
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