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
Fantastic football: Redknapp was sure he left White Hart Lane having entertained the fans

Right now he is working in an advisory role for Bournemouth, the first club he managed. ‘I’m not getting paid for it,’ he says. ‘The chairman Eddie Mitchell came to see me. Manager Paul Groves worked for me at Portsmouth and so did assistant Shaun Brooks. They asked me to come down to the training ground some time. Good lads.

‘Then Eddie called and said he’d pay me to become part of it. I said I don’t want paying. I don’t want to commit myself. But I will go to training occasionally and I’ll go to the games. I had a great day out last weekend. I really enjoyed it.’

He loves it and at 65 — he calls himself a young 65 — he is working for free so that he can accept the first job offer that appeals to him. ‘You never know what’s going to happen in football,’ he says. ‘It was a shock that I went and there will be more shocks.

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