Bristol Rovers legend Ian Holloway says Queens Park Rangers' disappointing season which has led to former England manager Steve McClaren being sacked is proof the club were wrong to dismiss him a year ago.
Holloway, left the club at the end of the 2017/18 after talks with QPR owner Tony Fernandes.
That season the club finished in 16th place in the Championship which was deemed not good enough.
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In 2018/19 they will finish below that, currently sitting in 19th spot. Defeat to Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday could see the managerless club finish as low as 20th.
Holloway said: "For me, there is the strange sensation of looking back on a season when I was not involved as a player or manager.
"It is almost a year since I left Queens Park Rangers and it still rankles with me because I felt I was doing a really good job there.
"What has happened to the club since has merely confirmed that opinion.
"But sometimes things happen in life for a purpose. Working in the media since my departure from Loftus Road has given me a new perspective on the game and I have loved mixing with the supporters at the various matches I have covered for TalkSport.
"It has also given me the chance to see how tactics keep on evolving and how other coaches operate. The success of one team in particular, Sheffield United, has given me enormous pleasure.
In recent days Holloway has said he is open to a return to management and he has been strongly linked with the vacant Plymouth Argyle job in League One.
Holloway added: "Any club wanting to employ me this season would have had to go through Queens Park Rangers because they were still paying up my contract, but that won’t be the case from the end of this month."
Watch this space.
Get Holloway's explosive full column for Bristol Live on Friday morning when he discusses his return to management.
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