Ted Hughes wrote:Harry will pick the same bunch of failures as every other England manager. If he could, he'd pick Beckham. Then he'll add his Spurs favourites.
The only difference will be a complete lack of tactics. If it works, the players will express themselves more, have a few surprising results where everyone gets excited, then get arse fucked 6-0 by Spain. Everyone will say "well at least we had a go".
If it doesn't work, he'll have a twitching turnip cartoon head on the back page of the Sun, after we get splattered by teams like Sweden or Russia.
This is EXACTLY to the T how it will go.
As far as tactics go Redknapp is one of the worst out there. He has always had a wingman who more or less takes charge of training sessions and decides tactics. Redknapp only picks players and acts as some sort of frontman. That is by the way no Redknapp hate post (although I can't stand him) but this is gathered from various of sources (autobiographies, interviews) of his former players.
But he is English and talks a good game so he will have more time than most so I suppose it could be steadying influence. What's the worst thing for you here is that like it or not you are in the middle of generation switch. Generation of Gerrard's, Scholes' and Terry's is gone and younger players are coming in. What you'd need right now is someone who'd be willing to take blame for couple of poor results and ease that new, possibly golden, generation in. But that will NOT happen with Redknapp.
