Harry Redknapp Cancels Christmas At Tottenham Hotspur
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Harry Redknapp Cancels Christmas At Tottenham Hotspur
'Arry does his best Scrooge act.
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has made sure there won't be any dressing room bust-ups over the club Christmas party by banning his players from organising a festive knees-up. And Redknapp believes that such social occasions are a recipe for disaster.
"Don't have one – that's the only advice I have. I don't see the point because they're nothing but aggravation for everybody," he told reporters at his Friday press conference."Everyone's waiting for you to trip up, go out and get drunk or act silly. You don't need that.
"It's a long season and at the end of that, if we are successful and achieve something at Tottenham, they can go and have a party. They can go and enjoy their break in the summer.
"This is a busy period, a working period. Why should we have Christmas parties? Every year there's aggro at every football club that has one."
Redknapp is not even expecting club captain Robbie Keane to ask about a party.
"I don't think they'd take the liberty to have one without asking first. If they tell me they're having a Christmas party I'll tell them they're not having one," he said."I want to see them enjoy themselves but not at this time of year. They've got nothing to celebrate.
"They have to maintain their fitness and be prepared for a tough program coming up – one thing they don't need is to get a load of booze down their neck."
Reports surfaced earlier today that Redknapp had clashed with David Bentley during a Spurs friendly in midweek. The Tottenham boss played down rumors of a row though.
"It wasn't a real bust-up, nothing that would compare with what we are talking about at the other clubs this week," he explained.
"I wasn't happy with his performance in the first half of a game and that was it.
"There was no blazing row. I just felt he could have done better than he was doing. It was very mild. I was supposed to have said I will sell him in January. That's absolutely rubbish."
Meanwhile, Spurs welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to White Hart Lane at the weekend boosted by the news that Luka Modric returns to the squad.
The Croat has been out of action since August with a broken fibula.
However, Spurs will be without Ledley King and Jonathan Woodgate.
"Luka came through a friendly game and was fine. It's a bit early to start him but he'll be involved," Redknapp added.
"Ledley jarred his knee again. It's blown up and swollen up quite badly."It was looking great, he'd worked hard for three weeks. He was just short of a game, unfortunately it was a freak accident – the ball hit him in the face and his knee jarred.
"Hopefully he shouldn't be too long. Woodgate the same."
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