What a year! Harry Redknapp's first interview since leaving Spurs, on heart surgery, THAT court case, the England saga and leaving a club he loved

Posted Saturday, September 15, 2012 by Dailymail

What a year! Harry Redknapp's first interview since leaving Spurs, on heart surgery, THAT court case, the England saga and leaving a club he loved
Cleared: Redknapp was found not guilty on all fronts

‘That was the biggest thing in my life in the last year. I had to make sure I came out of that because my whole life was on
the line. Over nothing, but it was.’

No wonder he hasn’t slept. ‘Whenever I come here I don’t sleep,’ he says. ‘I have the same night I had the night before the verdict. But the manager’s a lovely man.’

After his acquittal he did indeed drive home. ‘I didn’t celebrate that night,’ he says. ‘They had something ready for me here but I only wanted to get home to Sandra, so I just drove home on my own.

‘I didn’t let Sandra come to court because I didn’t want to put her through that. It was hard enough being there in the first place but if she had been sitting there every day, too, that would have killed me and her. Jamie was there for me instead.

There were tears when I walked through the door, from both of us to be honest. It was a difficult time.’

It was an insane time and an insane few hours on that evening of February 8. No sooner had he returned to his car than he was being hailed as the next manager of England in the wake of Fabio Capello’s sudden, if not entirely unsurprising, departure from the Football Association.

Destiny? ‘It did look that way,’ he says. ‘People talk to you in football and everyone was saying it was my job. Not necessarily at the FA but other people involved, in positions in football, were telling me that.

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