David O'Leary goes to Villa. World Yawns

God, it's uncanny.

This is so much more fun than talking about Villa!

I don't know about cartoon dogs , but there are plenty who would be Shitzus.

In defence we can have Sol Campbell and Ray Parlour as
Lady and The Tramp.

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Newcastle to thread!

On tactics: "I sorted out the team formation last night lying in bed with the wife. When your husband's as ugly as me, you'd only want to talk football in bed."

On a training-ground scrap between Alvin Martin and Matthew Rush: "I've seen better fights at a wedding."

On Samassi Abou: "He don't speak the English too good."

On a striker he subsequently signed who went on to score just two goals for West Ham: "I look at Arsenal's bench and they have Davor Suker sitting there. The man's a legend and would score goals by the bucketload whoever he played for."

On West Ham's Uefa Cup chances: "Where are we in relation to Europe? Not too far from Dover."

On a spurned chance against Chelsea: "Joe Cole missed an open goal that my f*cking missus could have scored."

On his playing career: "Even when we had Moore, Hurst and Peters, West Ham's average finish was about 17th. Which just shows how crap the other eight of us were."

On Paolo Di Canio's one-fingered gesture to Aston Villa fans: "From a still picture how does anybody know what Di Canio was doing? He might have been signalling to a team-mate about a tactic from a corner. He might have been gesturing a tactical change. He could have been showing that the score was 1-0."

You Can Swear By Him
Harry is famed as one of the most pottymouthed managers in football. On signing good-looking Portuguese winger Dani, he told reporters: "My missus fancies him. Even I don't know whether to play him or f*ck him."

Towards the end of his West Ham reign, Harry bemoaned the state of the modern game thus: "Everyone f***ing jumps all over you. When Michael Carrick gave the ball away the other week there was 20,000 people c*nting him off. He give a bad ball and they are all f***ing 'weeerrrr.'"

And then there was this exchange with a hapless journo from our sister site Sportonair.com after the Hammers surrendered a first-half lead to lose against Arsenal...

Reporter: Harry, what message did you give the players at half-time?

Redknapp: Just "play the same as we did first half." What do you f*cking think I said to them at half-time?

Reporter: Dunno.

Redknapp: "Go and f*cking sit back and let them attack us" or summink? Is that what you think I said? What a f*cking stupid question.

Genius.

Blame It On Rio
One of Harry's finest hours was Rio Ferdinand's protracted transfer to Leeds United.

On April 28 2000 Harry told The London Evening Standard: "David O'Leary did enquire about Rio, but we're not interested in selling any of our young stars. We want to go forward as a club and selling Rio now would be a backward step."

On April 29 Harry told The Sun: "David O'Leary has £30million to spend in the summer and he wants to give me £10million for Rio Ferdinand. But the day we sell Rio and our other young players is the day when this club starts to die."

On August 12 Harry told Sky Sports: "The chairman of Leeds is trying to manipulate a deal. It's unsettling for Rio and for this club, and I'm fed up. I know what's been going on. If Barcelona knock on the door we've got real problems because I couldn't say `no` to the boy. But why should we sell him to Leeds? He's better off here."

On November 25 Harry told The Standard: "We don't want to be seen as a selling club. Rio is going nowhere."

On November 26 Rio Ferdinand joined Leeds United.

Foreign Bodies
Though his aim seems to have improved since joining Portsmouth, Harry never seemed to have much luck when signing foreign types.

This, our hero once explained, was because he couldn't bond with them as well as he did with domestic players. "With the foreigners it's more difficult," he said. "Most of them don't even bother with the golf, they don't want to go racing. They don't even drink."

Many rate Harry's greatest deal as the £1m he paid for Marco Boogers, the Dutch caravan-dweller whose sole start for the club ended after 15 minutes when was sent off for attempting to cut Manchester City legend Gary Neville in half. Harry later sagely observed: "You can't get f*ck-all for a million nowadays."

Others claim his best brush with non-Englanders was a West Ham trial match against Barnet in 1993, arranged so Harry could run the rule over an exciting Russian prospect. "Andrei Shevchenko didn't pull up any trees," he explained to the press the next day before sending the future Dynamo Kiev and AC Milan superstar on his way.

But there will always be a special place in Mediawatch's heart for Samassi Abou, just for inspiring the following quote, possibly lifted off Harry's Love Thy Neighbour video:

"The lad went home to the Ivory Coast and got a bit of food poisoning. He must have eaten a dodgy missionary or something."

Christ.

initially, i typed that as mam-management, keeping your mother happy is also very important it would seem. perhaps he should play duff