Non-Boro Football

[CurtisFleming 86]

Harry Redknapp has just joined Twitter (after claiming he can hardly read, write or use a computer during his tax trial) and he's already delivering gold, and when I say gold I mean utter horse***e. Here is some expertly picked up by F365's media watch....

 

 

 

Harry Redknapp has been on Twitter around 24 hours and he's already tripping himself up. We're not hugely shocked.

 

In an interview with Kicca (us neither) that was published through 'Arry's Twitter account, our man advised West Ham of the best way forward with their new manager.

 

'''I'd like to see him [Rio Ferdinand] as manager of West Ham. I'd go with him as director of football - that would be a good partnership."

 

It's an interesting take, Harry. Particularly from a man who said this in November 2014 on the subject of Directors of Football:

 

"It totally undermines your role as manager if you're not picking the players. It's a joke really that you are expected to work with someone else's players. It's all very well someone recommending players to you but when they don't work out, it's your head on the block.

 

"I'm just not in favour of that. As a manager I have to select the players, train them every day and make decisions. To expect me to work with players someone else has decided I want is a nonsense. I want to make my own decisions and rightfully so. If things don't work out fine, I'm responsible for that. But why should I be accountable for someone else's mistakes?"

 

Someone's changed their tune...

 

'Arry didn't stop talking there, however; not by a long shot. Instead he spoke of his fond memories of Rio Ferdinand after the defender's retirement.

 

'I signed Rio as a 14-year-old and it doesn't seem like 10 minutes ago that I was sitting in the dressing room with him and his mate Tony McFarlane at West Ham's training ground,' Redknapp wrote.

 

'They came together, two kids from South London. Me and Frank Lampard Sr were chatting to them and they were asking us questions like 'What do the players eat before they play?' 'What boots does Di Canio wear?' 'How do they warm up?'.

 

Okay, so where to start with this? Firstly, Rio originally joined West Ham as an 11-year-old rather than at 14. However, even if we take that as a semantic misunderstanding things get a little murky.

 

Rio Ferdinand didn't turn 15 until November 7 1993, so we will assume that this anecdote happened in 1993 at some point. Why on earth was Rio asking about Paolo Di Canio's boots when the Italian was playing for Juventus and Napoli that year?

 

In fact, Di Canio didn't join West Ham until 1999, when Ferdinand was 20 and had made 75 appearances for the club. Are we to believe he was still starstruck then?

[richmfc 41]

Thats a bit pedantic and taking everything litterally. I would imagine rio and his mate asked about someones boots but 20 odd yrs later it may be difficult to remember whos. I guess he was just making a piont. And as for dates and ages i get them wrong all the time

Of course he could cover himself and just say rio and his mate sat down with me and someone he was young and asked about a players boots and what they ate

 

Great story cue the tweets about how boring he is His best bet was to stay off twitter. No good can come of it

[Borodane 6,301]

Now that he has joined, Twitter will probably end up bankrupt within the next year.

[CurtisFleming 86]

Thats a bit pedantic and taking everything litterally. I would imagine rio and his mate asked about someones boots but 20 odd yrs later it may be difficult to remember whos. I guess he was just making a piont. And as for dates and ages i get them wrong all the time

Of course he could cover himself and just say rio and his mate sat down with me and someone he was young and asked about a players boots and what they ate

 

Great story cue the tweets about how boring he is His best bet was to stay off twitter. No good can come of it

 

His best bet is to just stop talking really.

[CurtisFleming 86]

Now that he has joined, Twitter will probably end up bankrupt within the next year.

 

Ha ^ This

[tylergomez 53]

Now that he has joined, Twitter will probably end up bankrupt within the next year.

 

Haha love it!

[ballyclover 213]

So Ste Mac has signed for newcastle, saying when he was at Boro he realised Newcastle were a huge club and wanted to go there in 2004, and always wanted to come newcastle.....

 

Of course, taking the England job, the 4 or 5 jobs after that, and telling derby he had no intentions of leaving to go to Newcastle until he was sacked really shows he always wanted to go there....

[Essuuaitch 330]

So Ste Mac has signed for newcastle, saying when he was at Boro he realised Newcastle were a huge club and wanted to go there in 2004, and always wanted to come newcastle.....

 

Of course, taking the England job, the 4 or 5 jobs after that, and telling derby he had no intentions of leaving to go to Newcastle until he was sacked really shows he always wanted to go there....

 

aye...seems to be a keen follower of the Robbie Keane school of  apre transfer speech school :D

[typicalbrough 17]

So Ste Mac has signed for newcastle, saying when he was at Boro he realised Newcastle were a huge club and wanted to go there in 2004, and always wanted to come newcastle.....

 

Of course, taking the England job, the 4 or 5 jobs after that, and telling derby he had no intentions of leaving to go to Newcastle until he was sacked really shows he always wanted to go there....

 

Shepherd was on talksport saying how they tried to poach him from us but McLAren couldn't break his contract so there's probably something on it. Its not as if he's doing a Robbie keane

[boro-unger 3,870]

So Ste Mac has signed for newcastle, saying when he was at Boro he realised Newcastle were a huge club and wanted to go there in 2004, and always wanted to come newcastle.....

 

Of course, taking the England job, the 4 or 5 jobs after that, and telling derby he had no intentions of leaving to go to Newcastle until he was sacked really shows he always wanted to go there....

 

He does seem like a 'the grass is always greener' kind of guy. Always getting his head turned.

 

I do love the bit he said about Newcastle being one of the top clubs in Europe though. :D

[richmfc 41]

Mclaren has always been career orientated. There is no loyalty. If he can take a step up he will if liverpool offered him a job 3weeks into the season hed be off

[smogsterking the Inspirati 2,490]

I hope Bill Beswick joins him with his flying geese video. It could turn them into high flyers.

[Guest Changing Times]

Mclaren has always been career orientated.  There is no loyalty. If he can take a step up he will if liverpool offered him a job 3weeks into the season hed be off

 

Indeed and he considered leaving us twice (Newcastle and Leeds).  I don't say that negatively because he's trying to make the most of his career so fair play to him.  Odd thing is that he's only left two clubs to go to another job, us to England and Twente to Wolfsburg.  The other times he's been out of work already I think. 

[Uwe 3,545]

I've always thought of him as a smug, self righteous, ***. Even when he was with us

[Red Rocket 244]

I love that quote from Steve Gibson, 'If he told me the grass was green, I'd go outside and check.'

 

Tells you everything you need to know.