Always Managing: My Autobiography

Always Managing: My Autobiography

by Harry Redknapp
Always Managing: My Autobiography

Always Managing: My Autobiography

by Harry Redknapp

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Overview

"From kicking a ball as a kid under the street lamps of Poplar and standing on Highbury's North Bank with my dad, to my first game at West Ham, I was born head over heels in love with football. It saved me, and 50 years on that hasn't changed one bit—I'd be lost without it."

Harry is the manager who has seen it all—from a dismal 1970s Portakabin at Oxford City and training pitches with trees in the middle to the unbeatable highs of the Premiership, lifting the FA Cup and taking on Real Madrid in the Champions League. With his much loved, no-nonsense delivery, Harry brings us a story filled with passion and humor that takes you right inside every drama of his career. Harry finally tells the full story of all the controversial ups and downs—the pain and heartache of his court case, the England job, his love for Bobby Moore, his adventures at Portsmouth with Milan Mandaric, the Southampton debacle, Tottenham and Daniel Levy, and not forgetting his years at West Ham or the challenges at his current club, QPR. It’s the epic journey of one of the great managers and, along the way, the story of the British game itself over the last five decades. In an era now dominated by foreign coaches, Harry is the last of an old-fashioned breed of English football man—one who has managed to move with the times and always come out fighting.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780091958312
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/22/2014
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Harry Redknapp started out as a trainee at Tottenham before signing for West Ham and playing for them between 1965 and 1972. He also played for Bournemouth and the Seattle Sounders before injury took him into management and coaching. He has managed at Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth (twice), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, and currently QPR. He won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008 and took Spurs into the Champions League in 2010.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Trial 1

Chapter 2 Three Lions 27

Chapter 3 Bobby (and George) 47

Chapter 4 The Making of a Footballer 73

Chapter 5 Beside the Seaside 109

Chapter 6 Up the Hammers 147

Chapter 7 Billy and the Kids 169

Chapter 8 Foreign Affairs 197

Chapter 9 Big Mouth Strikes Again 227

Chapter 10 Going Up 243

Chapter 11 Going Down 271

Chapter 12 The Man Who Understood the Diamond Formation 301

Chapter 13 The Rise 337

Chapter 14 And Fall 357

Chapter 15 Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Down 375

Chapter 16 Always Managing 399

Picture Credits 412

Index 413

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