72 Facts About Harry Redknapp

Henry James Redknapp was born on 2 March 1947 and is an English former football manager and player.

Harry Redknapp has previously managed AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City.

Harry Redknapp is uncle to Frank Lampard, who played under him at West Ham United.

At age 11, while Harry Redknapp was playing for East London Schools football, he was spotted by Dickie Walker, a Tottenham Hotspur scout.

At age 15, Harry Redknapp moved to West Ham United and played alongside Bobby Moore.

Harry Redknapp began his career with Tottenham Hotspur, playing for the youth team until he was 15 years old, when he moved to West Ham United.

Harry Redknapp made 12 League appearances scoring once during his second season.

Harry Redknapp had been booked for fouling Billy Bremner and was dismissed by the referee for dissent.

Harry Redknapp made 26 total appearances and scored one goal; 23 of his appearances came in the league.

Harry Redknapp made 175 total appearances in both league and cup action for West Ham, scoring eight times over seven seasons.

Harry Redknapp joined Division 3 AFC Bournemouth in 1972 from West Ham.

Harry Redknapp spent four seasons with the south coast side between 1972 and 1976.

In 1976, Harry Redknapp joined North American Soccer League club Seattle Sounders as a player-coach.

Harry Redknapp made 15 appearances during the 1976 season as they reached the playoffs after finishing second in the Pacific Conference, Western Division, before losing to the Minnesota Kicks in the Division Championship.

Harry Redknapp went on to make three appearances in the 1978 season and just the one in the 1979 season, before joining up with old teammate and 1966 World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore.

Harry Redknapp represented England at youth level when he was 17.

Harry Redknapp began his management career as player-assistant manager of NASL club Seattle Sounders from 1976 to 1979 under Jimmy Gabriel.

Harry Redknapp then assisted his former West Ham teammate Bobby Moore at Isthmian League club Oxford City.

Harry Redknapp applied for the manager's job when Webb moved to Torquay United partway through that season, but was overlooked in favour of Don Megson.

Megson was sacked in late 1983 as Bournemouth were in the Third Division relegation places, and Harry Redknapp was hired as his replacement in October 1983.

Harry Redknapp led Bournemouth to victory in the inaugural Associate Members' Cup by beating Hull City in the final.

In June 1990, while in Italy to watch the 1990 FIFA World Cup, Harry Redknapp was involved in a road accident along with Michael Sinclair, the chairman of York City, Fred Whitehouse, the chairman of Aston Villa, and Bournemouth's managing director, Brian Tiler.

Harry Redknapp was doused in petrol and pulled clear of the accident by Sinclair.

Harry Redknapp suffered a fractured skull, a broken nose, cracked ribs and a gash in his left leg.

Unconscious for two days, Harry Redknapp was flown home two weeks later in a special air ambulance paid for by Bournemouth.

However, in August 1994, the club board of directors opted to turn control of the team over to Harry Redknapp and move Bonds into an administrative role.

Just months before being promoted to the manager's seat at Upton Park, Harry Redknapp was linked with the managerial vacancy at Southampton after the departure of previous manager Ian Branfoot, but the job went to Alan Ball instead.

Harry Redknapp helped to establish the club in the FA Premier League and introduced a number of young players from the club's academy, including Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Rio Ferdinand and Frank Lampard.

Harry Redknapp made mistakes in the transfer market, particularly with overseas players, including Marco Boogers, Florin Raducioiu and Paulo Futre.

For some time, it was unconfirmed whether he resigned or was sacked but Harry Redknapp shed new light on the true circumstances in October 2007:.

Harry Redknapp became director of football for Portsmouth in 2001, and when the Leicester City manager's job became vacant with the dismissal of Peter Taylor that autumn, Harry Redknapp was widely tipped to take over at the East Midlands club, but stayed loyal to Pompey, with the Leicester job going to Dave Bassett.

Ironically, it was reported in the national media that had Harry Redknapp taken over, Bassett would have been on his coaching staff at the East Midlands club.

Harry Redknapp had another disagreement with Mandaric over the appointment of Velimir Zajec as director of football and resigned as manager in November 2004.

Harry Redknapp was unhappy with chairman Rupert Lowe's appointment of Clive Woodward to the club's coaching staff.

Lowe quoted Harry Redknapp as referring to Portsmouth as his "spiritual home".

Harry Redknapp returned to Portsmouth on 7 December 2005 with the club threatened by relegation to the Championship, although not in the relegation zone.

At first it looked like Harry Redknapp would be heading for a second successive relegation, but a fine run of form at the end of the season, aided by the takeover of Portsmouth by Alexandre Gaydamak, ensured Portsmouth's survival.

In October 2007, Harry Redknapp signed a new contract at Portsmouth lasting until 2011.

In January 2008, it emerged through the media that Harry Redknapp was offered the vacant manager's job at Newcastle United following the sacking of Sam Allardyce.

On 8 March 2008, Harry Redknapp led Portsmouth to an FA Cup quarter-final victory over Manchester United, completing a hat-trick of FA Cup wins over Manchester United, and followed this with a semi-final victory over West Bromwich Albion at Wembley Stadium on 5 April.

Harry Redknapp is the last English manager to win a major English trophy.

Harry Redknapp returned to Portsmouth to receive the Freedom of the City in a ceremony on 28 October 2008.

In October 2008, following the sacking of Juande Ramos by Tottenham Hotspur, the club announced Harry Redknapp had agreed to take over as the new manager at Spurs, the club where he began his playing career.

In January 2009, Harry Redknapp signed five new players in order to add quality and much-needed depth to his squad.

In March 2009, Harry Redknapp led Spurs to the League Cup final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester United.

Harry Redknapp made significant alterations to the squad in the summer of 2009.

Harry Redknapp made a season-long loan move for Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor.

On 24 November 2012, Harry Redknapp, who had been working at former club Bournemouth in an advisory role, was appointed as manager of Queens Park Rangers, taking over from Mark Hughes, whose contract was terminated the previous day.

On 3 February 2015, Harry Redknapp resigned as manager of QPR.

In March 2016, Harry Redknapp was appointed manager of Jordan national team alongside his former assistant, Kevin Bond, for the country's next two qualifying matches for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

On 18 April 2017, Harry Redknapp was announced as the manager of Birmingham City until the end of the season after the resignation of Gianfranco Zola.

In May 2017, Harry Redknapp signed a one-year deal to continue as Birmingham manager for another season.

On 16 February 2023, Harry Redknapp revealed he would be interested in a return to club management via Leeds United after the dismissal of Jesse Marsch.

In January 2016, Harry Redknapp made a return to football as a director at Wimborne Town.

On 29 April 2016, it was announced that Harry Redknapp was to join Australian side Central Coast Mariners as a football consultant.

In October 2017, following his departure from Birmingham City, Harry Redknapp briefly joined League Two club Yeovil Town in a voluntary advisory role to manager Darren Way.

On 8 February 2021, Harry Redknapp returned to Bournemouth to advise caretaker manager Jonathan Woodgate, though was not officially involved.

On 9 July 2021, Harry Redknapp made a small cameo appearance in the popular British soap opera, EastEnders.

On 19 September 2006, Harry Redknapp was shown on camera by BBC Panorama taking part in what appeared to be an interest in approaching a player in a manner forbidden by FA rules.

Harry Redknapp denied that his conversation about then-Blackburn Rovers player Andy Todd with the football agent Peter Harrison amounted to "tapping up" or improperly approaching the player.

Harry Redknapp referred to Todd as a "tough bastard" during the conversation and suggested he would be interested in signing the player on a full-time basis if he was available.

Harry Redknapp told the BBC he has never taken a bung and had given Kevin Bond no reason to think otherwise and that he considers himself to be "one million percent innocent".

Harry Redknapp told the inquiry it was possible he did own the horse but insisted he had not made any money out of it because the horse was a failure and never won a race.

Harry Redknapp was later released without charge and announced his intention to sue the police because of his arrest, considering it as the reason for the failure of the FA to consider him for manager of the England national team after the sacking of Steve McClaren.

Part of Harry Redknapp's defence was that he was both dyscalculic and dyslexic and therefore had difficulty in dealing with transfer contracts.

Harry Redknapp was found not guilty on both counts on 8 February 2012.

Harry Redknapp's acquittal came just hours before the resignation of England national team head coach Fabio Capello.

Harry's grandson via his son Mark, called Harry Redknapp, signed for Bournemouth during May 2014.

Harry Redknapp's nephew is former England midfielder Frank Lampard, Jr.

In January 2011, Harry Redknapp was mugged while attending a football match in Madrid.

Harry Redknapp wrote for the online gambling company, Betfair, as its "Euro 2012 columnist".

Harry Redknapp was a contestant in the 2018 series of I'm a Celebrity.