Ian Holloway: ‘If you can’t hear other people, you are isolated from the world’
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<p>To mark World Hearing Day, the Swindon manager talks about wearing hearing aids, his family’s experience of deafness and communication in football</p><p>Ian Holloway is talking about one of the telltale signs, away from frontline management, that led to him wearing hearing aids. “I became more and more aware how loud I was having to put the volume on the telly,” he says, before delivering the punchline. “My neighbours must be delighted.” The other giveaway came courtesy of h
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Interview Ian Holloway: ‘If you can’t hear other people, you are isolated from the world’ Ben Fisher To mark World Hearing Day, the Swindon manager talks about wearing hearing aids, his family’s experience of deafness and communication in football I an Holloway is talking about one of the telltale signs, away from frontline management, that led to him wearing hearing aids. “I became more and more aware how loud I was having to put the volume on the telly,” he says, before delivering the punchline. “My neighbours must be delighted.” The other giveaway came courtesy of his wife, Kim. “How often I had to say: ‘Sorry? Pardon?’ It started to really annoy both of us. At first I thought I was just deliberately not listening after 37 years of marriage.” This Saturday, when his Swindon side visit Crawley hoping to maintain their League Two promotion push, Holloway, who turns 63 this month, plans to wear his hearing aids for the first time. “Unfortunately ageing happens to all of us – your body does deteriorate – so put the ego down and get the best hearing you can. I want to be the best I can be for as long as I can be.” Could it be a first for a manager on the touchline? “I have no idea whether it is or not, I don’t really care. But I want to shout about it from the rooftops, because it’s absolutely incredible.” Though he accepts he may be “less pleased when I can hear what away fans are shouting more clearly”. Holloway is in typically good form, but he has a serious message: the Swindon manager is keen to raise awareness and encourage others to get their hearing checked with Tuesday marking World Hearing Day. “The stats say most people wait nine years to get checked, fix their ears … why would you even dream of doing that? You wouldn’t do that with any other ailment, would you? It’s absolutely ridiculous. We’ve got to kill the stigma. “I’ve got things behind my ears, so what? If it’s helping me hear better, I don’t really care what I look like. No one worries about having ...
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