The Wycombe Wanderers manager played under Holloway at Queens Park Rangers.
Queens Park Rangers promotion hero Gareth Ainsworth has given Ian Holloway’s return to Loftus Road his blessing.
Ainsworth, who was brought to QPR by Holloway in 2003, played 29 times during his debut campaign in west London, scoring six goals as the R’s finished second in Division Two.
And the 43-year-old, now the manager of League Two Wycombe Wanderers, hopes his old boss can restore some of that 2003-04 spirit, having replaced Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink last week.
“I think that QPR have made a good decision in getting him back,” Ainsworth told Talksport’s Hawksbee & Jacobs show on Tuesday afternoon.
“He knows what it means to wear a Rangers shirt, I’m not saying Jimmy didn’t – he’s a great manger as well – but maybe it takes that bit of experience to bring a few people back down to earth, let them know what club they’re at and what it means to wear a Rangers shirt.
“Hopefully we’ll see results will pick up. It’s a great club and I always look out for their results.”
Holloway has given a decade of his life to QPR, having spent five years a player at Loftus Road, before returning in 2001 for his first spell in charge.
Since then, the 53-year-old has managed Plymouth Argyle, Leicester City and Millwall, as well as Blackpool and Crystal Palace, the pair of whom he led to unexpected promotions from the second tier.
Millwall are the only club to have ever sacked Holloway, towards the end of a difficult 2014-15 campaign in which they were ultimately relegated.
The Bristolian has since been employed as a pundit for Sky Sports.
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