Harry Redknapp

Coach

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I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

If I could help someone somewhere, help a young manager, I'd love that. I did it at Derby with Darren Wassall and had a great time.

I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.

I have brought up a fantastic family.

I told Birmingham I don't want nothing, I'm not interested in the money.

All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.

Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.

Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.

I love animals, all animals - apart from cats. I'm a little bit scared of cats.

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.

I don't think I can eat emu.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.

I do get text messages from people with sick jokes on when something terrible has happened. I don't read them; they make me ill. But it does happen, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who gets them.

I do enjoy seeing footballers every day, being on the training ground.

My record speaks for itself.

I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

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