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Redknapp: Rodgers would've been my England assistant

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Harry Redknapp says Brendan Rodgers agreed to become his number two at England before Hodgson appointment

7 Oct 2013 10:27
Redknapp claims that he had lined up the then-Swansea boss as his assistant, should he have got the England job following Fabio Capello's departure


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R and R: Harry Redknapp says Brendan Rodgers wanted to join him at England

Harry Redknapp has claimed that he had lined up Brendan Rodgers as his number two, should he have been given the England job.

The QPR manager claims that he was so confident of landing the vacant Three Lions position following Fabio Capello's departure in February 2012 that he had already sounded out then-Swansea manager Rodgers as his assistant.

"He had players at Swansea passing it like Franz Beckenbauer," Redknapp writes in his new autobiography which is being serialised in the Daily Mail.

"My thinking on Brendan was this: if he can do it with players from the lower leagues at Swansea what can he do with Rio and Terry or Rooney and Gerrard?

"So when Tottenham played Swansea on April 1, 2012 I pulled Brendan after the game and said that if all the speculation about me and England was true would he consider coming to the European Championships in the summer as my part-time coach? He was up for it."

Roy Hodgson was eventually offered the England job and Brednan Rodgers left Swansea to become the new Liverpool manager that summer.

Redknapp meanwhile has said he was days away from accepting a lucrative offer to become Ukraine boss before taking over at QPR in November.


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Any coincidence in the timing of this serialization ahead of the qualifiers?
 
Not from the part in macca's post, but the other part from the serialization so far, where he's commented a lot about the FA, Roy Hodgson, as well as criticizing on the performances in the qualifiers and how the senior players wanted him to get the job etc.
 
Redknapp should of got the job. .

I hope England fail to qualify tbh.. It will be a case of... Well you did hire hodge podge so what do you expect ?
 
It must be annoying seeing his 'assistant' now managing Liverpool and sitting on top of the league, whilst he's at QPR, in the Championship, driving round in an Escort trying to find Sky Journalists who still care about him. Probably.
 
I'm sure Spurs fans are enjoying this, while he was busy loosing the gap he built up being in the top 3 at spurs and ended up finsihing 4th and missing out on the CL place ( admittedly points he was also responsible for picking up), he was busy recruiting others for another job.
 
Sorry, if you haven't read it, here it is:

I was introduced to ‘Lee Topliss’ at Les Ambassadeurs casino in London one night during my time as Tottenham manager.

Lee Topliss is a young jockey who has been riding for Richard Fahey at Musley Bank Stables since 2009. He is regarded as one of the best apprentices in the game.

This guy seemed a nice kid. He wasn’t dressed too well, looked like he could do with a few quid, but very open and chatty.

If you like a bet, he seemed a good man to know.

Then the conversation turned to football. ‘I love Tottenham, Harry,’ he said. ‘The only problem is, I can never get a ticket…’

Suddenly, he was at near enough every home game. He’d ring me up, give me a few tips for horses — they usually got beat — and then arrange to come to the match at the weekend. Half the time I’d end up dropping him at the station afterwards because I felt sorry for him.

He came everywhere. Directors’ box at Manchester United and Arsenal, in a private box next to Roman Abramovich at Chelsea.

We went out for dinner after a match and I’ve never forgotten the way he tucked into his food. I’ve never seen a jockey eat like it. He even had dessert.

‘Are you sure you should be having all those calories, Lee?’ I asked him. ‘Oh, it’s OK, Harry,’ he assured me. ‘I sweat it all out in the sauna in the morning.’ What do I know? He went through the card and then I gave him £150 for a taxi back up to Newmarket.

This went on for years. If we had a big game, he was there.

One day he said he had an offer to go to Dubai for a few weeks and ride for the Godolphin stable.

‘It’s a great opportunity, Harry,’ he said, ‘but I’ve got to pay my own way and I can’t afford the air fare. I’ll get prize money out there but I can’t collect it until the end of the month.’

‘How much do you need, Lee?’ I asked. ‘About five hundred quid should do it,’ he said. So I lent him £500. I never saw that again, prize money or not.

When I switched clubs, Lee’s allegiance to Tottenham turned out not to be as strong as he made out. Now he was going everywhere with QPR.

On the last day of last season, he came up to Liverpool as my guest, sat in the directors’ box and, at the end of the game, pleaded poverty again. ‘I’m riding down at Newbury tomorrow, Harry, and I’m not sure I’ve got the train fare.’


He even cadged a lift to the station out of me, which took me in the opposite direction to home.

I just felt sorry for him. He was always on his own, and he obviously wasn’t making much money, despite being a top apprentice.

And then I got a phone call from Willie McKay, a football agent. ‘Do you still speak to Lee Topliss, Harry?’ asked Willie. ‘Yeah, I do,’ I said. ‘He’s always calling me, more losers than winners, mind you.’

‘Right,’ Willie continued. ‘Well, I think I know why his information isn’t so clever.’

‘Why?’

‘He’s not Lee Topliss. He’s a potman at a boozer in Newmarket. He picks up glasses - he’s not a f****** jockey.’

Three years he’d had me.

The best seat in the house, good restaurants, lifts here, there and everywhere - and heaven knows what in hand-outs.

And it was a sheer fluke that Willie found out the truth. A while ago, ‘Lee’ had given Willie a rare successful tip, so the next time Willie was at Doncaster, he saw Lee Topliss’s name on the card and wanted to thank him.

But when he saw him ride around in the parade ring, it didn’t look like Lee Topliss. Taller for a start. Willie put it down to the protective racing helmet he was wearing and thought no more of it.

Then, a few races later, he saw Lee with his back to him in the paddock. Now was the chance to say something. He tapped him on the shoulder.

‘Hello, Lee, I’m Willie, Harry’s mate, thanks for the horse you gave me, good lad, it ran well,’ he said.

The jockey stared at Willie as if he was mad.

‘I’m Harry Redknapp’s friend,’ Willie repeated. ‘If you ever need anything, give me a ring.’

Again, he was staring back at Willie as if he had landed from the moon. Then Willie began to study the lad’s face. It wasn’t the ‘Lee Topliss’ he knew, the one he had met with me at Les Ambassadeurs.

And then Willie started making enquiries.

I thought I was streetwise. This guy, ‘Lee’, was a different class. I’m told when Istabraq won the Champion Hurdle, he’d led the horse into the winner’s enclosure waving the Irish tricolour. Everyone thought he was part of the trainer Aidan O’Brien’s stable but it turned out they didn’t have a clue who he was either.

He was a conman preying on the racing scene and the little Irish rogue had us all. I’m told he was working the same racket with Liverpool’s Glen Johnson, plus a couple of football agents and other managers.

I can imagine him now, in his room full of signed shirts —Robbie Keane, Aaron Lennon, Gareth Bale, all collected through me.

So I’d got sacked by Tottenham, relegated with QPR, my mate of three years turned out to be an Irish crook, and my last memory was of him disappearing off to Lime Street station in Liverpool with another £150 of my money.
Oh yes, it had been one hell of a year.



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That was a narrow squeak, wasn't it, dear old Dad?

You can say that again, dear old Son! He was a hell of a con man!

But he seemed so much like a jockey. He was little, he sounded Irish, and he knew horses.

Exactly. He knew horses all right. Whenever we passed a picture of one he'd point at it, quick as a flash, and say, 'That is a horse!'

How crafty is THAT?!

And he sounded like he knew what he was doing with betting, too. He used to say, you know that next race? Well bet on one of the horses. You got a good chance.

And sometimes he was right and sometimes he was wrong. Very convincing.

Oh yeah. He was yer actual criminal mastermind. And I'm so relieved I realised just in time, otherwise I wouldn't have had the cash for that investment in yer actual Hollywood genius's next big movie.

Yeah, too right. You're gonna make a fortune from that, dear old Dad!

Not just me, me dear old Son. Nah, I put some of your money into it as well. You're coming with me tomorrow to meet the great man himself!

Wow! I've always wanted to meet Stanley Kubrick!
 
Good time indeed to talk about this seeing its the international week. 🙄
[article=http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/neil-warnock-hits-out-at-fa-for-not-gambling-on-harry-redknapp-8863482.html]Neil Warnock said today the Football Association made a mistake in giving Roy Hodgson the England job instead of Harry Redknapp.

The former Queens Park Rangers manager spoke out after Redknapp (above) launched a scathing attack on the FA.

In the first extract of his book Always Managing: My Autobiography by Harry Redknapp published in the Daily Mail, Redknapp claims the FA “haven’t got a clue” about English football and that several senior players texted him to say they hoped he would succeed Fabio Capello when the Italian resigned last year.

While insisting he holds no grudge towards Hodgson (below), Redknapp criticised the current team as “painful to watch” and made the startling revelation that while he was in charge at Tottenham, several players asked to be withdrawn from the England squad because “they get slaughtered if the result isn’t right or they don’t play well”.

Redknapp said: “I wouldn’t trust the FA to show me a good manager if their lives depended on it. How would they know? What clubs have they ever run? Who do they speak to who really knows the game?”

Both the FA and Spurs declined to comment but Warnock spoke up for the QPR boss.

“I do think we’d have qualified for the World Cup by now if Harry was in charge but I’m biased,” he told talkSPORT.

“Roy is a very good manager and a lovely person but I just think he fitted as someone safe and secure. He wasn’t a gamble and that’s why I very rarely enjoy watching England. Harry gives players more freedom and flair. Roy always sets his teams out not to lose.”[/article]
 
The only thing good Hodgson has done so far is making Gerrard captain.

To think that Pearce actually picked Scott Parker.
 
Surely there's no way a premier league manager, from Northern Ireland no less, would leave his job to be Harrys England side kick.
 
Redknapp said Andros Townsend is similar to Arjen Robben. Apart from the hair (or lack of) I dont see much else thats similar tbh.
 
[article]In an interview with A Bola, Bosingwa, a player widely castigated by Hoops’ fans last season for his apparent lack of effort, has pulled no punches. Here’s a few of the Trabzonspor man’s comments, which were translated and then Tweeted by the excellent Portuguese journo @_GoncaloLopes:

“I forced no one to give me the salary I was offered. They hired me on the conditions they thought were correct for a player who came from Chelsea for free.”

“How can he [Redknapp] make technical analysis of the players at training when he is almost constantly in the dressing room dealing with agents and rarely turns up on the pitch?”

“He’s obviously frustrated. By the way he speaks he thinks he is a type of Alex Ferguson figure, but there is a difference: throughout his long career, he has not won a single trophy.”

“He doesn’t seem to know what he says. It’s confusing. It must be his age or the wine he drinks every morning.”[/article]
 
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