* Twitchy Trial Tweet Cam *

[dave watson's perm]

would you buy a used car from this man??? would i bollox.....................

[dave watson's perm]

would you buy a used car from this man??? would i bollox.....................

[Scatman]

Not wishing to talk about the case in any way, I would just say that the line: ' his receipt of a £300,000 "gift" after Rio Ferdinand signed for Leeds United from West Ham' causes the veins on my head to stick out.

Why?

Why was it ok for a manager to receive £300k for selling his best player ? How can that be right ? What sort of fucking system allows that to go on & what sort of bloke takes £300k for getting rid of one of his own best players ?

Agree completely, although they would say it was a reward for the part he played in increasing the value of the asset, and thus the gain to the club when they sold it.

[Ted Hughes]

"If it was something dodgy I would have gone over there and brought it back in a briefcase."

Shouldn't that be "I would have told the authorities " ?

[Chinners]

13.04 from the Press Association:
Redknapp said "there ain't nothing crooked in it" as the telephone conversation went on, the court heard.

"Don't say bung," Redknapp said. "It's nothing to do with a bung. It's paid by the chairman.

"How can it be a bung when the chairman of the football club paid me?"

He added: "What's a bung? It's a f****** sick word."

According to the transcript, he told Mandaric: "I don't want to have a problem with the tax man."

"They was aware of it from day one," he added.

When asked about the bonus clause in his contract, Redknapp said: "My accountant has got my contract ... I'm not going to f****** show you."

He added: "The Inland Revenue know all about it. I've got nothing to defend, Rob.

"I ain't done nothing wrong ... I ain't done nothing wrong, Rob. I got paid a bonus ... everyone is aware of it."

He later added: "Everyone knows about it, there ain't nothing crooked in it."

13.05
Trial has now broken for lunch. Will resume at 2pm.

[Ted Hughes]

Good work Chinners.

[Wooders]

hang on - is he effin and jeffin in court like that?

[Chinners]

No more tweets from journalists at the trial because the judge forbade it after a journalist tweeted a jurors name.
Apparently one of the jurors has the same name as a famous footballer. Some idiot journo must have actually tweeted it. Now journos have been asked to go outside to tweet...

[Chinners]

hang on - is he effin and jeffin in court like that?

He's not even had the chance to speak yet! Those are quotes read by the prosecution from taped interviews etc etc ... just building up the case against him at the mo. Arry will probably not get the cahance to say anything til Thursday at the earliest .... which must seem like a prison sentence to him .. a prelude if you like

[Ted Hughes]

No more tweets from journalists at the trial because the judge forbade it after a journalist tweeted a jurors name.
Apparently one of the jurors has the same name as a famous footballer. Some idiot journo must have actually tweeted it. Now journos have been asked to go outside to tweet...

Has juror Mr Balotelli been removed ?

[steveo_88]

If guilty he should be banned from football for life and fined heavily. Wasn't it in 1906 we we're nearly destroyed due to illegal bonuses for players. When we should have had a dynasty of success our team was decimated and absorbed by the scum when as per usual they were shit!

[Chinners]

No more tweets from journalists at the trial because the judge forbade it after a journalist tweeted a jurors name.
Apparently one of the jurors has the same name as a famous footballer. Some idiot journo must have actually tweeted it. Now journos have been asked to go outside to tweet...

Has juror Mr Balotelli been removed ?

Ha ha ha quality

[Chinners]

All rise .... defendant Twitch is now back in the dock and whilst we await the resumption a few more bits from this morning ...

Redknapp's account differed from what Mandaric told Mr Beasley on February 26 2009, the Crown claim.
Mandaric was said to have told Mr Beasley that the payments to the Monaco account were nothing to do with Portsmouth securing promotion to the Premier League.
The transcript said: "This is the money for my investment... a way to help Harry for the investment... we had become friends."
He added: "Rob, as I told you, it was nothing wrong. It was something I did for my friend... away from football."
Mandaric said he had "paid him a million or whatever it was I paid him" for Portsmouth's success on the pitch.
He added: "There was a contract and what I did for him was nothing to do with this."
As Mr Beasley told Redknapp what Mandaric had said, the manager said: "Well, if that's what he said, then he is wrong."
Redknapp added: "What people don't seem to understand - this money was paid by Milan in his American account... It was a bonus I was due."
Redknapp declared his Monaco account to inspectors less than two weeks before joining Spurs, the prosecution allege.
Redknapp subsequently told police "I don't fiddle", the court heard.
John Black QC, prosecuting, read out an interview which took place with a detective four months later in June.
Redknapp was said to have told a detective: "I said to him many, many times 'Milan, I don't want to end up with a tax bill'.
"I was told I wasn't liable for income tax on so many occasions."
Redknapp added: "For the sake of that amount of money or any amount of money, I don't fiddle.
"I pay my tax since I have been in football my entire life.
"I pay every penny."

[carl_feedthegoat]

Whenever twitchy mentions getting a player in or selling one he ALWAYS ALWAYS denies knowledge of how much salary or how much hes going to cost ect and says the chairmen is sorting all that out...............the lying little shit knows exactly what finance is being paid or collected.

This is going to ruin him......hopefully.

[Manx Blue]

I'd love there to have been a Twitch-sweepstake for the duration of the case, and indeed the ferocity/number of twitches during the moments of extreme pressure.

[feedthegreek]

apparantly redknapp stated to police mandaric was in control of the account.
bur forget to tell police that he had faxed a 100,000 transfer from monaco account to an account in florida.

[Chinners]

DAY 2
3.15pm - round up of the afternoon so far ...
Milan Mandaric told Harry Redknapp "there is no tax" as the manager expressed concern over the Monaco bank account, the court heard today.

Redknapp claimed he confronted his then chairman after Portsmouth secured Premier League survival with an away win at Blackburn Rovers in 2004.

Redknapp thought it would be a good idea to raise the "investment" as they drank wine at an airport, the manager told officers in June 2009.

Mandaric was said to have told Redknapp: "Harry, there is no tax. I've paid the tax. There is no tax for you."

Regarding the state of the "investment", Mandaric was alleged to say: "Disaster, disaster. Got wiped out. There's still a little bit in there."

Redknapp told officers he did not press the issue as Mandaric "wasn't a man to argue with", jurors at Southwark Crown Court heard.

The Tottenham Hotspur boss said during the interview: "I want my money paid here. If I don't go with, you know, I'm not going to get my money anywhere."

Redknapp went on to tell detectives that "Milan, not me" had control over the Rosie 47 account.

"He must have had control of that bank account, you know," Redknapp said.

Regarding finances at Portsmouth, Redknapp was said to have told police: "There was a big problem on cash-flow - the club was late on wages."

[Manx Blue]

Just thinking back, Harry had a right Spaz Attack when the lad off Sky said he was a "Wheeler Dealer" a couple of years ago didn't he?

A player moving from A to B, in my eyes, means team A get the money. Maybe the a player gets a few bob for the move, and or his agent. but not manager of team A. The player is an asset of Team A...not the manager.

Thats how I see it or am I just being naive and stupid?

[Mase]

Just thinking back, Harry had a right Spaz Attack when the lad off Sky said he was a "Wheeler Dealer" a couple of years ago didn't he?

A player moving from A to B, in my eyes, means team A get the money. Maybe the a player gets a few bob for the move, and or his agent. but not manager of team A. The player is an asset of Team A...not the manager.

Thats how I see it or am I just being naive and stupid?

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[CityGer]

When Beasley asked him whether he had paid any tax in the UK on it, Redknapp replied: "Haven't been asked to, Rob."

Had to laugh at that.

I don't think anyone will accept that he could be that naive.