Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs EXCLUSIVE: Ian Holloway returned from four years away to lift Swindon Town away from League Two relegation concerns and last week penned a new long-term contract – even if much about the game rubs him up the wrong wayIan Holloway has rediscovered his joy for management at Swindon Town.Ian Holloway realised it was time to return while doing the groceries with his wife. Last October one of management’s largest personalities stepped back into the furnace at Swindon four years on from leaving a toxic situation at Grimsby.And while he concedes things got worse before they dramatically improved at the County Ground, Holloway is revitalised to be back in a job that leaves him feeling like Tigger. “A top made out of rubber, a bottom out of springs,” he says.He signed a new contract last week having quelled the Robins’ relegation fears and now finds himself putting long-term plans in place at the club after many assumed he was yesterday’s man.To begin with Holloway, 62, enjoyed the break. He and wife Kim bought a motor home and went on road trips. Always a keen artist, he learnt how to paint. There were after dinner speeches, school visits and he did a bit of punditry work. But he knew when the time had come to explore a comeback.“It was OK for a while until I got on my wife’s nerves,” he says. “You quickly realise you’re not needed. I remember making decisions in the shopping trolley. ‘What have we got that for?’ ‘Um, well.’ ‘No, put that back.’READ MORE: Mikel Arteta explains how to fix Arsenal injury nightmare – ‘It’s the only solution’READ MORE: Carlo Ancelotti denies tax fraud as Real Madrid boss says ‘I’ve confidence in justice’“Nearly every manager misses that feeling of control and it’s too much sometimes. When you lose it’s the worst job in the world, when you win it’s the best.“But when you haven’t got it you feel empty because you’re not needed from almost everything to anything. My heart’s beating again, if that makes sense. It almost jump-started me.”A “poignant” reference, Holloway says, since he is speaking as part of the EFL’s Every Minute Matters campaign, which is encouraging several hundred thousand fans to learn CPR.He was motivated to get involved by former Luton captain Tom Lockyer, who is central to the drive, and the loss of his father when he was 25. “He never got to meet my kids or grandchildren,” Holloway says.References to how his father would view modern football pepper this conversation. Holloway is grateful to be back in the thick of it but there is a lot about the game that rubs him up the wrong way.During his break he would often turn the TV off because almost every team in the country was playing the ball out from the back. “Boring,” he says. “Everyone gives the credit to Pep but it’s not really that.Ian Holloway left Grimsby under a cloud and the club were soon relegated from the EFL.”It was the rule change so you can get two or three defenders into the box and the centre-forward has to wait outside, they can’t come in. Some teams are good at it, some are awful at it.”But football is about different things. When there are opposites it works quite well. When everyone is trying to do the same thing it’s quite boring. Why play to your side’s weakness and not strengths?”Not that he expects it to last.“Fashion, it goes round and round,” he continues. “It might take five years to get back to where it was. It might take 40 years. Some of my clothes I kept and now they’re coming back. I used to like bootcut jeans and I know my clobber will come back in. Then again I don’t care, I’m wearing it anyway.”The same rings true for his coaching. “It’s about communication,” he says. “But you still need a big centre-forward, you need someone who can head it in the box. You have to be good in both boxes – that never changes. The unpredictability of football should always be there.”Far more serious than gripes over style, he believes there is a battle underway for the game’s soul. Holloway has always had a warmth at odds with the caricature of ruthless football manager, even if his willingness to speak his truths have previously caused him trouble.And as he nears the latter stages of a career that has spanned the top four tiers as both player and manager – “Not many of us like it,” he points out – he is developing a wistfulness for what has gone before.Ian Holloway with Swindon’s Tom Nichols.He adores the fact his grandaughters are able to play football just like the boys but that joy also mirrors a sadness about society. “It’s absolutely wonderful, they can learn so much from the sport like I have and understand the community.“The world should look at that. The world is not in a good place right now. I can’t watch the news, it does my head in. What are these selfish people doing, our so-called leaders. It gets on my nerves. I can guarantee my dad wouldn’t like any of them. He taught me to trust everybody but I don’t like them.“What I’m trying to do is bring some old-fashioned common sense to the game. I haven’t got people as good as Pep’s players so we need to play in a way that suits them and once we’ve started doing that we’ve been doing a lot better. It’s quite simple.”He has sympathy for fans struggling to find the money to pay for their team and is continuously reminding his players that they must maintain a deep connection with the people who pay their wages.“We’re the entertainment for people. It’s an honour. We can’t ever get away from that. The more money there is in football means the gap between your top footballer and the person on the street is getting bigger and bigger. I don’t want that.“My players understand exactly who they need to be, they need to work as hard as the supporters. That’s the connection I have with real people you meet every day. I hope people have enough money to go and support their club because there’s not enough spare money in the world these days.“Everything is more expensive. I was brought up in a community and if we didn’t have something we could go two doors up to Auntie Evelyn and she’d lend us it and we’d pay her back whenever we could. That’s what Great Britain is to me and I want football to reflect that.”Fired up by his survey of the nation’s state, Holloway next turns his attention to investors from abroad, imploring them not to mess with tradition.“Wherever you come from, whether it’s America or elsewhere, and you own our club, do you understand what it means to our supporters? I’m not sure you do, young man.“I don’t care how clever you are, how much money you have but you’re not ruining our heritage. This is the last tribal thing that we’ve got and you’re not going to ruin it, move it 200 miles up the road. Whatever you think over there, get on your bike, you’re not doing it.”The Sky Bet EFL Every Minute Matters Relay is a gruelling 4,000-kilometre 28-day journey that features an incredible 72 legs, stopping off at each and every EFL club before culminating at Wembley on 21st April. But unlike traditional charity events, the ‘Every Minute Matters’ relay isn’t asking for fans to donate cash but instead is asking fans to give up just 15 minutes to learn CPR.The relay is the latest phase of Sky Bet and British Heart Foundation’s pioneering Every Minute Matters campaign which set a goal a year ago of encouraging 270,000 football fans to learn CPR – the equivalent to three Wembley Stadiums – by May 2025. With less than two months to go, the campaign has hit a remarkable 235,000 – meaning Every Minute Matters is within sight of its incredible target.Join our new WhatsApp community and receive your daily dose of Mirror Football content. 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