Is being serialised in the Daily Mail - this is where he talks about Portsmouth. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...as-scum-I-left-Southampton.html#ixzz2hBIgwLT4
I have a dilemma here, as I suspect many people will. I don't want to give Redknapp a single brass halfpenny. But I do want to read his book, though I suspect he'll be a little economical with the truth.
I wonder if it will be available at the local library. From the extracts I've read in the Daily Snail - he isn't backwards in bigging himself up. But I have the same dilemma as you.
He's right in what he says; some of the treatment he got was beyond justification but, at the same time, he must have been naive beyond belief if he thought no one would give a monkey's.
To be fair, he is giving all the profits to charity. The Bobby Moore bowel cancer fund, a worthy cause.
I saw the book in Waterstones yesterday and had a quick look. It seems to be your typical football autobiography and the pages I read about Saints seemed to be more about the treatment he received from some Portsmouth fans following his defection. He was quite complimentary about the passion Portsmouth fans have and added another voice to the argument that the Saints fans don't take things to the sometimes absurd levels that the Pompey crowd do. As he saids, you won't find fans wearing the shirts of other clubs in Portsmouth. Fair play to Redknapp donating the proceeds to a worthwhile charity. Despite this, I won't be buying this book but would have to admit that I think "Arry is overdue for either a properly researched television documentary or a biography that takes a fairer and more balanced view of a manager whose ability as a coach seems to have been self-promoted through the back pages of the tabloids and is perhaps overdue to come down to earth with a bump. I don't think his story is anywhere near over and I would welcome a book that was less hagiographical than some of the efforts by journalists on the red top newspapers.
