I’m an ex-Premier League manager and I signed a player after watching CCTV footage of him fighting outside a nightclub
IAN HOLLOWAY once signed a player after watching CCTV footage of him fighting outside a nightclub.
Marcel Seip joined Holloway at Plymouth in 2006 from Eredivisie side Herenveen.
And he proved to be a hit, making 128 appearances for the Pilgrims before later re-uniting with Holloway in a loan spell at Blackpool.
He arrived at Plymouth with Europa League experience but Holloway only snapped him up after being impressed with his aggressiveness during a fight outside a nightclub.
Holloway told the Daily Star: “He turned out to be a tad aggressive and he liked fighting.
“[While on a night out] he had to protect our centre forward from three lads outside a club. He hit two of them, and one of them ran away, and then he got arrested!
“Having watched the CCTV footage I asked him what happened and he said, ‘I was protecting my team-mate, they were gonna bully him and I didn’t want them to do that’.
“Then [later] the chairman asked me ‘what do you think [of him]?’ and I said we should sign him!
“If he’d have run away [from the fight] I wouldn’t have wanted him.”
Seip helped keep Plymouth in the Championship with Holloway leaving the club in 2008.
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He signed him again at Blackpool before the now 41-year-old joined Charlton and Sheffield United on loan.
Later he joined Bradford on a permanent basis and left English football in 2012, returning to his native Netherlands with VVV Venlo.