Harry redknapp new biography of ben

Ben Dirs is a freelance journalist and author. He has written 21 books: We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships (with Tom Fordyce, 2009); Karma Chameleons (with Tom Fordyce, 2010); Everywhere We Went: Top Tales from the Barmy Army (2011); The Hate Game:Benn, Eubank and Boxing’s Bitterest Rivalry (2013); and acted as the co-writer on Box to Box: From the Premier League to British Boxing Champion (by Curtis Woodhouse, 2016); Death Row – The Final Minutes (by Michelle Lyons, 2018); 401: The Extraordinary Story of the Man Who Ran 401 Marathons in 401 Days and Changed His Life Forever (by Ben Smith, 2018); Life According to Freddie Flintoff (by Andrew Flintoff, 2018); The World According to Harry (by Harry Redknapp, 2019); Break Point (by Ollie Ollerton, 2019); 999 – My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service (by Dan Farnworth, 2020); What a Flanker (by James Haskell, 2020); Only Here For A Visit (by Alan Brazi

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Why Harry Redknapp’s new warts-and-all book is a t’riffic read

I’d rather spend a night locked in a room with Justin Bieber than read most football autobiographies.

‘I wasn’t a bad lad at school but I was much happier with a football at my feet. If truth be told, I wasn’t bad at maths, and maybe could have gone on to be an accountant.’

Really? Can you just skip to the part when you scored the winner in the FA Cup final and got caught with your pants down later that night at Stringfellows?

So, Harry Redknapp’s new book, Always Managing, comes as a welcome addition to the bookshelf and can be placed alongside the Cloughs and the Keanes of this world as an exception to the rule.

It’s a page-turner alright, as the current QPR manager does well to debunk the theory that he’s a wheeler dealer, cut-the-corners chancer; football’s answer to Del Boy Trotter.

He details how he wanted to stay at West Ham, was openly asking for an extension at Spurs and had no

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Harry Redknapp

English football player and manager (born 1947)

Henry James Redknapp (born 2 March 1947) is an English former footballmanager and player. He has previously managed AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City. In his second spell at Portsmouth, he managed the side that won the 2008 FA Cup.^[4] At the conclusion of the 2009–10 season, he guided Tottenham into the UEFA Champions League.^[5] Redknapp announced his retirement from football management in 2017.^[6]

His son, Jamie Redknapp, played under him at Bournemouth and Southampton.^[7] He is also uncle to Frank Lampard, who played under him at West Ham United.^[8]

Early life

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Redknapp was born in Poplar, London,^[9] the only child of Henry Joseph William Redknapp (1922–1996) and Violet May Brown (1924–2001).^[10]

At age eleven, while Redknapp was playing for East Lond