Harry Redknapp shares biggest regret of his career from time at West Ham United
Harry Redknapp has admitted that the biggest regret of his career was speaking out about former West Ham chairman Terry Brown, which led to his sacking.
Redknapp is one of the most popular Hammers managers in the modern era, but was sacked back in 2001 after falling out with the chairman.
Speaking on Joe Cole’s podcast with BT Sport [20:42], he revealed that would be the one thing he would change during his career as it ultimately led to the end of his tenure at Upton Park.
“Probably writing something nasty about Terry Brown, the West Ham chairman at the time, in a fanzine,” he said.
“Unfortunately that, even worse, he’d read. And that was probably the end of me there (West Ham).”
Shame
It was a real shame when we saw Redknapp leave the club, because he was overseeing one of the most exciting periods of the club’s history at the time.
He obviously went on to have success with Portsmouth and Tottenham, while being heavily considered for the England job at one point too before that didn’t materialise.
So for him to essentially say that leaving West Ham was the one big regret he has, it shows just how much he cared about the club and loved it while he was here.
Hopefully now that time has passed the relationship between him and the fans can be mended somewhat and we can celebrate him for being the top manager and servant to the club he was, rather than remembering him for his short spell at Spurs after he’d be turfed out of our patch.
Terry Brown did the right thing at the time, because you simply can’t go against the boss when you’re in a job, but it’s time to move on now.
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