Redknapp trial: how Harry held court for three compelling weeks
Harry Redknapp's already larger-than-life personality only seemed magnified when he stepped into the witness boxEven by the seldom conventional standards of the professional football world, the saga of bonuses, offshore bank accounts and a beloved bull...
Harry Redknapp jury retires to consider verdict on fraud allegations
Judge tells jurors to ignore emotive subject of football in tax case against manager and former chairman Milan MandaricThe jury trying Spurs manager Harry Redknapp and former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric on charges of tax evasion was sent home on...
Mandaric barrister defends payments
Lord Ken Macdonald QC says prosecution is flailing with 'paper-thin' allegations against his clientThere was nothing "even slightly sinister" about the payments totalling £189,000 that the former Portsmouth owner Milan Mandaric made to Harry Redknapp,...
Spurs’ Redknapp ‘insulted’ by claims
Tottenham manager denies lying about tax affairs and says 'I'm the most ungreedy person you have met in your whole life'The Tottenham Hotspur manager, Harry Redknapp, has furiously denied lying to his tax evasion trial, describing prosecution claims th...
Harry Redknapp admits lying to journalist over payments
Spurs boss used 'easy way out' with News of the World reporter, he tells court, and was under no obligation to tell him the truthHarry Redknapp has admitted lying to a News of the World journalist about how almost £100,000 came to be paid into his off...
Harry Redknapp tells court: I’m no businessman, just a fantastic manager
Tales of Peter Crouch, David Beckham and a dig at a police officer as Spurs manager takes to stand in trial for tax evasionDespite swapping the dugout at White Hart Lane for the witness box at Southwark crown court, Harry Redknapp turned in a character...
Harry Redknapp: I have always paid my taxes
Tottenham manager tells court he has usually paid more rather than less in tax and has always used the best accountantsThe Tottenham Hotspur manager, Harry Redknapp, has told the jury trying him on allegations of tax evasion that he has always paid his...
Harry Redknapp told police he is ‘completely and utterly disorganised’
Jury in tax evasion trial played tape of interview in which Harry Redknapp told the police that his accountant ran his lifeFar from being a "hard-headed businessman" with a knack for turning profits, Harry Redknapp has made a series of disastrous inves...
No squidding! Paul the ‘psychic’ octopus dies
• World Cup sage passes away 'peacefully during the night'• Predictions led to international fame for 'Pulpo Paul'• The Knowledge archive: football clubs employing animalsDeath's inescapable tentacles have curled themselves around Paul the octopu...
Blackpool reach for Premier League’s towering heights
The football team with the second-lowest home crowd in the Coca-Cola championship is going for the real thing
Tomorrow the people of Blackpool will discover whether their footballing ambitions — lofty as the town's tower, passionate as a holiday romance and stubborn as the donkeys that traverse the sandy...
