by Starfish »
11 Mar 2012 11:50
Mr Angry Kitsondinho Has Harry won in the PL since the England job came up for grabs?
Once. They beat Newcastle 5-0 the first game after his acquittal.
Here is a summary from The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012 ... am-hotspur8 February Harry Redknapp is cleared of tax evasion. "It's been a nightmare, it's been five years, it's a case that should never have come to court. I'm just looking forward to going home and getting on with my life." Hours later, Fabio Capello resigns.
11 February Harry's extraordinary week ends perfectly with a thunderous 5-0 home win over Newcastle – two of the goals coming from his January signing Louis Saha. Ledley King says the England speculation will not hurt them. "We love Harry and, hopefully, he will stay. We just need to keep our focus and what will happen in the summer will happen."
19 February The first signs that all is not well. Spurs draw 0-0 at Stevenage – watched by the FA chairman David Bernstein. Harry: "I bet he was impressed by the football I served up! He's probably thinking: 'Who's this geezer?' We started lumping it didn't we? That wasn't really part of the plan."
26 February The joking stops as the London derby ends in humiliation. Arsenal win 5-2 at the Emirates, and Spurs look a shadow of their early-season selves. Redknapp: "We buckled – and we don't do that too often."
4 March Another blow: a 3-1 home defeat to Manchester United. Before the game, Sir Alex Ferguson applied the mind games: pointing out what a distraction the England talk had become.
Saturday After beating Stevenage in the replay, the slump resumes. Defeat at Everton makes it three successive Premier League losses for the first time since October 2008 – a sequence of results that led to Juande Ramos being sacked.