Harry Redknapp

At a charity event in March 2025, Redknapp joked that England's German manager Thomas Tuchel was a 'German spy', compared him to Lord Haw-Haw and appeared to make a Nazi salute. The sequence caused major controversy.

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After saving Birmingham from relegation, Redknapp signed 14 players during summer 2017 for approximately £20 million. He was dismissed in September after six consecutive defeats, with the club second from bottom in the Championship.

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In October 2016, while dropping his wife Sandra near shops in Bournemouth, Redknapp pulled away without seeing that she was passing behind the car and accidentally drove over her ankle. She was hospitalised and underwent surgery.

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Redknapp's time at QPR was criticised over the number and cost of new signings at a club already spending heavily. Following relegation and subsequent promotion, he resigned in February 2015, officially to undergo knee surgery, while QPR were struggling again.

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Shared responsibility

Redknapp was arrested in November 2007 alongside several football figures as part of Operation Apprentice, an investigation into suspected conspiracy to defraud and false accounting concerning transfers. He was questioned and released.

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Directly implicated

Redknapp and Milan Mandaric were prosecuted on two tax fraud charges concerning approximately £189,000 paid into a Monaco account nicknamed 'Rosie47'. Prosecutors maintained that the payments were taxable professional bonuses.

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Accused

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Redknapp and his wife challenged the dawn search of their home. The High Court described the way police had obtained the warrant as 'wholly unacceptable', quashed the warrant and awarded £1,000 in damages.

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Protagonist is the victim

The Stevens/Quest report left outstanding questions about several Portsmouth transfers and Redknapp's relationship with agent Willie McKay. It also mentioned a racehorse registered in Redknapp's name by McKay, without any material benefit being demonstrated.

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Direct responsibility

Panorama broadcast a secretly filmed conversation in which Redknapp said he would like to sign Blackburn defender Andy Todd, presented as part of a wider investigation into irregular transfer practices.

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Personally implicated

After leaving Portsmouth in 2004, Redknapp joined rivals Southampton two weeks later, a decision described as the 'highest betrayal possible'. His return to Fratton Park with Southampton required heightened security, and he said he had employed a former SAS member. During later departures from Portsmouth, he also received death threats targeting, among others, his wife. A year after his spell at Southampton, he returned to Portsmouth, reigniting the dispute over loyalty.

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Directly implicated