It wasn't the right time, the wrong words, or the right tone to use. Harry Redknapp completely lost it this Thursday evening at a charity gala. Asked to react to the arrival of the German coach Thomas Tuchel At the helm of the Three Lions, he described the new England manager as " German spy "! As you can see, he has been campaigning for months for a coach who must be English at the head of the national team...
« Frankly, I think he's a German spy. I'm telling you. Seriously, he was sent to screw us up. That's right. I tell you, he's like Lord Haw-Haw (nickname given to William Joyce, American journalist, and several others who spread Nazi propaganda to the UK from Germany during World War II) in war: 'Your best soldiers are captured' and all that. " The room is laughing. It feels like a one-man show. Which may have had a heady effect on the 78-year-old former coach... Unfortunately.
German accent, "Ja" and strange Nazi salute
His first slip-up and his gratuitous mockery make the audience laugh. They want more. So Harry Redknapp puts another coin in the machine. In these images broadcast by The Guardian, collected from a mobile phone, we see the ex-coach sinking into his attacks against the ex-coach of the PSG.
Harry Redknapp quite literally imagines that the German thought to himself: I'm going to ruin this team". Total paranoia and speech worthy of the bar-stalls of the sports café... The senior then briefly adopts the German accent! And even throws a " ja", in German. Before finally raise his left arm in a manner that strongly resembles a Nazi saluteHe could (should) have done without it...
Thomas Tuchel is the first German to lead the England national team, but not the first foreign coach. Both Swede Sven-Göran Eriksson and Italian Fabio Capello have previously held the position.
