Harry Redknapp: Di Canio’s Madness, Transfer Window Genius & Challenging Chairmen

The Rest Is Football

Goalhanger

Soccer, Sports, Football

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What special tricks did Harry have for man-managing the maverick that was Paolo Di Canio? How did he turn on the charm with prospective players to make sure he always got the most out of the transfer market? Why is it generally a constant battle between the chairman and the manager at a football club? Gary is joined by one of the great managers of the English game, Harry Redknapp, to discuss exactly what makes football management so addictive and how Paul Merson got one over one him when he was the boss at Portsmouth. Harry Redknapp’s back in the dugout, managing the worst team in the country! Watch Specsavers’ Best Worst Team on YouTube now: https://www.youtube.com/@SpecsaversBestWorstTeam/featured Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Specsaver's Best Worst Team, a series that follows
0:07.6	Tunley Athletic, the worst performing grassroots club in the country, as they're given access
0:13.1	to elite level support in a bid to turn their fortunes around. Harry Rednapp is out of retirement
0:19.4	to help the Somerset-based team and he's roping
0:22.1	in a few legends of the game too. Watch episode one of Speck Savers' best worst team on YouTube now.
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1:09.0	Hello and welcome to the rest is football with me, Garalinica's, no Micah Richards or Alan Shearer today, but I am joined by a very special guest.
1:19.1	A man who played more than a hundred times for both West Ham and Bournemouth and then went on to manage both clubs.
1:26.7	He also managed the likes of Spurs, Portsmouth and QPR, among others, in a stellar career.
1:33.0	And I guess you must have worked it out by now.
1:36.6	If not, he was a king of the jungle as well.
1:39.3	It's worth pointing that out.
1:41.4	Harry Rednapp joins me.
1:43.1	Lovely to see you, Harry.
1:43.9	Good to see you, Gary. How to see you Gary. How are you?
1:45.5	Yeah, all good. Yeah. Good. Good to have you on the podcast. I hear you back in management.
1:50.6	Yeah. Yeah. Busy, busy, busy managing the team again for Spec Savers and it's a tonally athletic this
1:57.6	year. I managed last year. I managed Cumalbion, which was near Swansea.
2:03.0	That was interesting.
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