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
soccer football sitting
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.
delighted needed players quality three
I'm delighted to get three quality players I really needed and wanted.
bring four good next players
I need them all over the next four games. But the good thing is that not many of the new players are on long-term contracts. We need to bring some players in who are going to make us a better team.
feeling meant stay
I've just got a feeling that it could be meant to be that we stay up.
build came gone squad
I've got them in to build a squad which we really didn't have before. When I came back here I had to do something or we would have just gone down anyway.
beat birmingham few good great players run situation suffer time turns twists watching
It was a good time to play them, but what a run by us and what a great situation we are in now. The players are up for it and so are our supporters, but we all know there could be a few twists and turns yet. Birmingham could beat Aston Villa and I'll suffer watching that. It ain't over yet.
fans means players stay
I want players who know what it means to Pompey fans to try and stay up.
forward leaving looking massive matters mistake starting staying
It was a massive mistake leaving Portsmouth and I am looking forward to starting again. All that matters is staying in the Premiership.
difficult round
It was a difficult day for me all round really,
language time
At no time did I use abusive language.
asked fourth goal school sit stage talk
At no stage did I ever swear. I just said to the fourth official, asked him why the goal was allowed. He said - how you would talk to a six-year-old at school if you were a schoolteacher - to sit down,
fire low sale sure
You get disappointed and feel low but I just wanted some clarification of where we wanted to go, I wanted to make sure there was not going to be a fire sale of the better players.
charge
The whole thing is a lot of old tosh. It is not true. But let them investigate if they want; let them charge us if they want - I don't care.
cannot move sad
The sad part is that the ones who do well want to go, but you cannot move the ones who are useless,