Darren Lewis 10/12/10

Nothing much of interest this morning really but felt duty bound to moan/comment on a couple of things once Darren had finished sticking the knife into Alan Pardew at Newcastle.

Firstly and to set the scene, there were some comments attributed to Joe Hart at City's training ground yesterday regarding the lack of press photographers:

"they don't turn up if we win"

Be careful what you wish for Joe; Darren reports on a practice match at Carrington. Yes, that's right, a report on a practice match, in a training session, on television, reporting on a report in a newspaper which was itself based on a report by a fan, lifted off bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk,  quoted pretty much to the word :

"...of the two  teams, one looked suspiciously like the team that will take the field against West Ham... worryingly for Mancini, they won 5-0 with a hattrick from Roque Santa Cruz, a player who can't get anywhere near the starting XI..."


So they we have it, get some money on West Ham. Here's the plaguiarised original article -

City's fight club - telegraph

And finally, be sure to read down to the bottom of that article, where we learn that Alec Ferguson has banned players from wearing snoods. We know this because it's in the Sun and because Fergie's representative on twitter, rio ferdy, says so. We get all the big stories on K&C!

He he - Redknapp the liar

Sorry, busy week...

He he - Redknapp the liar

Loyalty Schmoyalty
'Chris Hughton's sacking at Newcastle merely confirms what I have known for ages - in football there is no such thing as loyalty,' 'writes' Harry Redknapp in The Sun.

Certainly, there is no greater expert on the lack of loyalty in football than Redknapp.

This is the man who declared that Portsmouth would be his last job in football, said loud and clear that he "would never go down the road" to Southampton, turned down Newcastle in January 2008 citing 'loyalty' and then left for Tottenham in October saying it was "a big opportunity to manage a big club before I retire".

History has since been re-written by Redknapp, who now claims: 'When I went back to manage Portsmouth from Southampton, the team was bottom of the Premier League. We stayed up by the skin of our teeth with a remarkable run of results.

'Yet the club was changing hands. Milan Mandaric was selling up to Sasha Gaydamak, and I knew the new man was hoping to bring in someone else in my place.

'I even knew who it was, but am not prepared to name names. So despite all that effort and an impressive achievement, I was on my way out.

'That's part of the reason why I left for Tottenham...'

Firstly, Portsmouth were not bottom of the Premier League table when Redknapp returned to Portsmouth - they were third from bottom and just three points from safety. Their survival was far from a miracle.

And secondly and more pertinently, Redknapp is now claiming that he left Portsmouth because Milan Mandaric was selling the club and he saw the writing on the wall.

Mandaric sold the club in the summer of 2006. Redknapp signed a new Portsmouth deal in October 2007. He left for Tottenham in October 2008.