Harry Redknapp
Harry Redknapp
Henry James "Harry" Redknappis an English football manager and former player. He is a football advisor to Central Coast Mariners and a director at Southern Football League side Wimborne Town...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth2 March 1947
driving seat
We were really in the driving seat at 1-0 up,
crying man mould tremendous wayne wide
We are crying out for a wide man and to get someone in the mould of Wayne is tremendous because he will really give us the width we have been missing.
ready
We are ready to have a real go at them.
build love stay team
If we stay up, I would love to build a team around him. He'd be a big player.
hoping late save took
He tweaked a hamstring and we took him off hoping it would not be too late to save him doing more damage.
came felt friday played reserves trained
He trained all week, played in the reserves and said he felt really good. Then he came in on Friday with a back injury.
against both city hope manchester size team
We'll need some size about us against a team like Manchester City and I'd hope to be able to play both these two.
careless fairness gave good
We had a very good first half, got careless in the second, but in fairness to Portsmouth they never gave in.
best came chance coming couple enjoy felt ground regretted slim took training week
When I came back I felt we had a very slim chance of getting out of it, to be honest. A couple of friends who come here every week said we had no chance. But it was a challenge, and I took it on. I've never regretted it. I feel comfortable here. I enjoy coming into the training ground in the morning. I think that's important. It ain't the best training ground in the world but I feel comfortable there, you know?
deserved doubt far happen team
We deserved to win. There was no doubt about that. We were by far the better team but it didn't happen so we've got to go again.
blatant deciding dive
It is about deciding what is a blatant dive and what is not.
chairman pressure thinking
It is something I have been thinking about for a while. I made it without any pressure from the chairman or the board.
hard ideas run
I thought they'd started to run out of ideas and we'd be ok, but it wasn't to be. It's going to be hard (avoiding relegation) but we're having a go.
looking minutes thinking
I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.