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Spurs players don't care if I'm manager or not - Harry

ESPN staff
March 23, 2012
The Tottenham fans still appear to be behind Harry Redknapp, despite links to the England job and the club's recent slump © Getty Images
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Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has said that his players would not lose any sleep if he left the club to take over as England manager.

Redknapp has been widely tipped to succeed Fabio Capello and lead England into battle at Euro 2012 - but his link with the national post has coincided with a downturn in Spurs' form, leading to suggestions the squad has become distracted.

Tottenham were seconds away from losing their fourth Premier League game in a row until Rafael van der Vaart rescued a point against Stoke in midweek, and they have been leapfrogged by rivals Arsenal in the table.

Asked whether his link to the England job was affecting Spurs' players, Redknapp said: "[That's] the biggest load of nonsense I've ever heard in my life. They don't care whether I'm the manager next year, they wouldn't lose any sleep over that. Footballers are footballers: they play the game, they train every day.

"Someone else could come in here tomorrow … The king is dead, long live the king. That is football. They don't worry if Harry's going to England, or if he's going somewhere else. It doesn't happen that way. They don't think about that; I don't think about it.

"Whatever happens to me at the end of the season happens to me, I don't lose any sleep about it one way or the other."

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