Evening Standard

Ian Hollway has admitted that he only made the trip to Leeds on Saturday to quash speculation linking him with the vacant manager's post at Wolves.

The Queens Park Rangers manager missed training last Thursday and Friday with a virus but emerged from his sick bed to watch his team get thrashed 6-1 at Elland Road after they had been given the lead by Gareth Ainsworth.

Holloway said: "I won't need to pick up the lads, just being there at training today will be all that is needed to bounce back and to end all this speculation about me joining Wolves. I felt so bad on Saturday that I shouldn't have gone but I felt I had to."

Brian Deane was the hero for Leeds, bagging a four-timer.

Daily Mail

Holloway undergoing hospital tests

11:32am 22nd November 2004

QPR manager Ian Holloway has been admitted to hospital after his stomach complaint worsened over the weekend.

Holloway will have tests to discover the nature of the problem which almost prevented him from taking charge of the team during the 6-1 weekend defeat at Leeds.

Doctors are trying to establish whether he is suffering from food poisoning or a viral infection.

First-team coaches Gary Waddock, Gary Penrice and Tim Breaker will take over the reigns in Holloway's absence.