Football: Me a Traitor? Fans at Portsmouth Should Be Grateful. I Gave Them the Time of Their Lives ; the Ultimate Pompey Crime: Redknapp Becomes the New Manager at Southampton

Daily Mirror (December 09, 2004)

Author: Martin Lipton

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TEN DAYS ago they were all smiles together at Fratton Park. Today, Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric would each consider calling in the bomb squad if they received a Christmas card with familiar handwriting.

As Redknapp agreed to become Rupert Lowe's sixth manager in barely three-and-a-half years last night, it was time for all his anger at Mandaric to spill out.

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Football: Me a Traitor? Fans at Portsmouth Should Be Grateful. I Gave Them the Time of Their Lives ; the Ultimate Pompey Crime: Redknapp Becomes the New Manager at Southampton

Redknapp feels that he has put up with too much, that a steady stream of insinuations and slights over the past fortnight have completely eroded any trust he had left in the Serb.

And if his decision to join Southampton was considered the ultimate insult to Portsmouth by the disgusted Fratton Park faithful who ...

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