The Norwich City captain has never been a stranger to a bit of a moan and nothing was about to change that after Swansea City defeated his side 3-0 in Saturday's evenings live TV encounter.
Holt was unhappy with the celebration of Swansea goalkeeper Dorus De Vries in the 4th minute of stoppage time at the Swans third goal that sealed the victory. He pointed out De Vries "Went down for six minutes" with an injury – six minutes that the referee accounted for in the four minutes of stoppage time (work it out!)
He also decided that the ball boys were unfair to him after he didn't get the ball back immediately it went out of play despite no ball boy being near him at the incident in question, just his own bench who elected to let the ball go past them before he took his frustration out on the fourth official.
Grunt told the local Norwich paper “It was amazing how that multiball system all of a sudden disappears – Swansea are getting balls left, right and centre, and we’re getting ready to take things and the ball disappears, so it was funny that one
“He (De Vries) went down with a hammy (hamstring injury) for six minutes, and then he’s ran a 70-yard diagonal to celebrate (Swansea’s third goal) and screamed in my ear on the way past. I don’t like that. It’s a little bit disrespectful. I don’t mind anyone celebrating but there’s no need for someone to run by and shout stuff in your ear.
“We have built ourselves on a desire to win games and I thought the first half we weren’t at the races, all of us really, and second half we dominated the game all over.
“I should have scored myself, I had a hell of a chance and if that goes in it’s a different game – I think that would have made a massive difference – Korey had one, maybe the other side of the post and we’re back in it.
“But we are still a point ahead, we are not in crisis mode, we will put it out of our heads and bounce on to Watford.
“I think it was just one of those days. Everything was falling the other side. In the second half we had a couple of headers that hit them and came out, and Crofty had a header that hit me on the back.
“Being fair to Swansea, they are a good side. They’re not in third for no reason, they are a good team and very strong at home, so we were under no illusions it was going to be a tough game and we got that.
“But I’m more pleased with the second half performance. We came out and tried to give it a go, worked hard and we were unlucky we didn’t get anything.”
