Why its not yet time for Harry to be the England boss
Ever since Peter Crouch scored that goal against Manchester City in May to guide Tottenham Hotspur to their first ever campaign in the Champiosn League there have been calls for Harry Redknapp to be promoted to the big job itself,
the next England manager.
Although there is no doubt about the fact that the Spurs have come leaps and bounds forward in recent times but Harry being the next England boss may not be a very farfetched thought. Harry is an astute manager and there can be
no arguing that fact but if he is given the national job it may spell problems for the Spurs.
Redknapp took over the Spurs in December, 2009, when the Spurs were flirting with relegation and were lying in the bottom three of the Premier League but such has been their transformation in the following months that no one could
have foreseen such a meteoric rise.
From the depths of relegation dogfights, the Spurs are now rubbing shoulders with the continent’s elite, Redknapp has transformed a bunch of underachieving players into the Continent’s best. Under him, players like Pavlyuchenko,
Lennon, Bale, Assou-Ekkotto and Peter Crouch have gone on to become the best in their position, so much so that Bale was even compared to the likes of Messi and Ronaldo, such has been their transformation.
Harry Redknapp has done wonders for the Spurs and under him, they have progressed immensely and if he is to be taken away from Spurs at such an important time in their careers, it may hamper their progress, it may be like plucking
an un-blossomed orchid, whose full beauty may eternally be lost.
Harry is still in progress of transforming a team, making a bunch of perennial under-achievers into a cohesive unit, who will challenge for the biggest prize in club football.
Such has been Harry’s impact at the Spurs that only recently they gave the current European Champions, Inter Milan a torrid time at their own home in Milan, and then went one step better at White Hart Lane by beating them 3-1,
and in the process they smashed six goals past the best defense in the world and did not concede a single one.
It was perhaps those two games against Rafael Benitez’s Inter that shot the Spurs to stardom. Now the Spurs are a team that everyone is taking seriously and their achievement of qualifying top from a group that featured the reigning
European Champions is no mean feat.
The Spurs will be seeded for next Friday’s draw in Nyon and will avoid the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid in the next round but so inspirational is their form right now that they won’t be fearing anyone and for them it would
have been better if they were placed against Real or Barca but perhaps those contests can wait for one more round and may be in the quarter finals we will see Ronaldo, Higuain, Benzema, Kaka, Ozil and Khedira playing in London at White Hart Lane.
Though the England mangership would definitely be a great career move for Redknapp, and he may indeed prove a success guiding the national side, if you ask the fans, they’d want him nowhere else then in the dugouts, marshalling his Spurs troops.
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