We'll miss Harry

First we lost Kevin Keegan from football management, now Harry Redknapp's gone - our "quotes of the week" section may never recover…

First we lost Kevin Keegan from football management, now Harry Redknapp's gone - our "quotes of the week" section may never recover. We noted that nobody at West Ham paid quite as moving a tribute to 'Arry on his departure as he often paid to some of his players. Our favourites: "A tart. . . a fairy . . . a little girl" (his description of Romanian Florin Raducioiu) and "He's got more previous than Jack the Ripper" (John Hartson). Then there was the time he attempted to account for Ivory Coast midfielder Samassi Abou's loss of form - "I think he ate an undercooked missionary". Au revoir 'Arry.

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Mary Hannigan

Mary Hannigan

Mary Hannigan is a sports writer with The Irish Times