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In his new autobiography, Harry Redknapp has stated that the Football Association do not have the knowledge required to select the best England Manager.
“I wouldn’t trust the FA to show me a good manager if their lives depended on it,” he wrote in his autobiography, as reported by the Daily Mail.
However, he does insist that he does not hold any grudges after Roy Hodgson was appointed as England coach after Fabio Capello in May 2012.
Redknapp does claim that he was the first choice of many senior players in the squad to be chosen as the coach.
“This isn’t about them giving the England job to me or Roy Hodgson, but English football being run by people who really haven’t got a clue – and they get to pick the England manager,” he said.
“Everyone said I was the people’s choice, the only choice. All the senior players seemed to be up for me to get the job.
“I got quite a few text messages at the time from players saying they would love me to manage England: Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry.
“But the FA went for Roy Hodgson to be the England manager – a man who is more their cup of tea.”
Harry, who was managing Tottenham at the time, goes on to say that he wanted current Liverpool boss, Brendan Rodgers, to be his assistant.
“My thinking on Brendan was this: if he can do it with players from the lower leagues at Swansea what can he do with Rio and Terry or Rooney and Gerrard?” he added.
“So when Tottenham played Swansea on 1 April, 2012 I pulled Brendan after the game and said that if all the speculation about me and England was true would he consider coming to the European Championships in the summer as my part-time coach?
“I told him I wanted England to play with as much technical ambition as Swansea. He was up for it.
“Some Tottenham fans might think I was distracted from my club job, but I can assure you the conversation took five minutes. And we beat Swansea 3-1 that day.”
After being sacked from Spurs in June 2012, Redknapp took over at QPR the following November.
