Ian Holloway says that he will not rest until he has turned Swindon Town around and created a successful team.

Swindon have been struggling over the past few campaigns, with the team recording lower league finishes than the previous year in each of the last three seasons and now find themselves just one point outside the League Two relegation zone.

However, four matches into his tenure at the club, Holloway said that he has bought into the ethos of the club so completely that he will make sure that he brings back the good times.

He said: “Without the ball, the difference between what they were doing before and what I want them to do is glaringly obvious to me, I saw it in training and I saw it last week and now I can show them and say ‘We don’t do that here and we do this.’ I think that will help them.

“I am only here to help. If I become a hindrance then I will tell the chairman that it is no good, I am not helping you but that is never going to happen.

“You are going to have to get rid of me and you are going to have to push me and kick me to get me out of the door because I love this place and I believe I am going to make it very successful.

“This club is something that I have very quickly bought into and it is something that I love.

“I love our DNA: we want to fight, we want to work, and we want to be able to do that on a Saturday with a lot more fans there because I feel it will help and I think the lads are starting to deserve it.”

Holloway added that he believes he is a leader and recently got some inspiration from an unlikely area.

He said: “Sometimes you don’t feel like a champion and I have to try and make them feel like champions even when it has gone wrong.

“We have to go out there on Saturday and take the good stuff, move forward, and learn the other stuff.

“I can’t wait to see what we learn from this game and I can’t wait to show them how I am in a game of this so-called importance, they will see what I am trying to be and that is a leader.

“I went to the cinema the other day, I don’t know if you have ever seen the first Gladiator and now they have Gladiator 2.

“He wasn’t quite a leader like his dad was but I loved it because when the going gets tough you have to stand there and be counted.

“When you go into that arena it is for real and I prefer a football arena as you don’t have a sword and there isn’t a rhino running at you but you have to keep going no matter what in both and I think we can do that.”