On Tony Pulis's style of management. Mirror Football, 10 December 2010
• Butler, Jeremy (2010-12-10), Holloway uses bizarre cake analogy for Pulis' Stoke style, work: Mirror Football, retrieved: 2010-12-11

In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory’s throw. Call that cinnamon and he’s got a cinnamon flavoured cake. It’s not fair and it’s not right and it’s only a small part of what he does.

— Ian Holloway

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory’s throw. Call that cinnamon and he’s got a cinnamon flavoured cake. It’s not fair and it’s not right and it’s only a small part of what he does." in the context of "On Tony Pulis's style of management. Mirror Football, 10 December 2010
• Butler, Jeremy (2010-12-10), Holloway uses bizarre cake analogy for Pulis' Stoke style, work: Mirror Football, retrieved: 2010-12-11" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ian Holloway

About Ian Holloway

Ian Holloway (born 12 March 1963) is an English football manager.