Biography

Harry Redknapp

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Harry is best known for his career as a football manager, which began in 1983 following his retirement from professional football. He has taken charge of some of England's top sides, including West Ham, Portsmouth and Tottenham Hotspur. During his managerial career, Harry won the 2007/2008 FA Cup Final with Portsmouth and guided Tottenham to their then most successful Premier League finish in 2009/10 season, with the side finishing in fourth place and securing Champions League Football. Harry won the Premier League 'Manager of the Year' Award that season, becoming only the second manager to do so in a season where his side did not win the title. Most recently Harry managed Birmingham City. His media work has included providing punditry and analysis on BT Sport and Talksport. A much-loved personality, Harry's won the 2018 series of reality television show 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here'. After being crowned 'King of the Jungle', Harry hosted his own television show 'Harry's Heroes', giving former England footballers a final chance to beat rivals Germany. Harry has his own podcast 'Harry's Game' and will be embarking on a UK tour this year, sharing anecdotes from his career.
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Left Portsmouth only to take over at rivals Southampton two weeks later. Southampton were relegated from the Premiership in 2005, while his former team Portsmouth survived
Father-in-law of Louise Redknapp.
Manager of West Ham United Football Club August 1994 - May 2001.
Father of Jamie Redknapp.
Under his management, Portsmouth won automatic promotion to the Premier League in 2003

We've got more and more foreign coaches, more and more foreign managers in the Premier League, eventually every club in the Premier League will probably have a foreign owner, and chances are every team will have a foreign manager with foreign back-room staff and they will bring in more and more foreign kids and foreign players. All their contacts will be abroad. They're not bothered about - let's be honest - are they that bothered about England really? They're bothered about their team in the Premier League. If you've come from Argentina or you've come from Italy, who are you cheering for? How worried are you about England doing well? You're worried about your own team and that's as far as it goes really.
Over the years a lot of foreign players that I've managed, and I mean top players, have smoked. I'm not condoning it or encouraging it, but an awful lot of foreign players did smoke. Johan Cruyff, apparently when he was in his prime, was a big smoker. Certainly, the Croatian boys, Slaven Bilic and all the lads, at every opportunity they had a cigarette. It is not good for him [Jack Wilshere], that is for sure, and Arsene Wenger wasn't happy last time he was caught smoking in the early hours at a nightclub, but he is a young player.

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