Sir Harry Redknapp?

[WhiteStripe]

Not looking to advocate this or get slated for even suggesting it, but Harry is the first ever English manager to get a club to this stage of the CL, so the debate is...what does he have to do, to become Sir Harry Redknapp?

 

[mattyspurs]

Not looking to advocate this or get slated for even suggesting it, but Harry is the first ever English manager to get a club to this stage of the CL, so the debate is...what does he have to do, to become Sir Harry Redknapp?

He'd have to win the World Cup with England for that to happen Steve

 

[WhiteStripe]

He'd have to win the World Cup with England for that to happen Steve

So winning the CL with Spurs wouldn't count? First ever English manager to win the CL. First ever team to win at their first attempt? From bottom to CL winners in 3 years?

 

[mattyspurs]

So winning the CL with Spurs wouldn't count? First ever English manager to win the CL. First ever team to win at their first attempt? From bottom to CL winners in 3 years?

I thnk he should if that were to happen, but I don't think the government bods who decide these things would.

 

[Azrael]

He'd have to win the World Cup with England for that to happen Steve

Yep.


And before they start, comparisons to Fergie are silly as by the time he was knighted he'd done way much more than Harry.

You won't see an Englishman knighted for football achievements until that World Cup is won.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Isn't going to happen.

The Queen (who is a secret member of SC) is of the opinion that he is tactically inept and talks too much. He also does things during games that some of our plastic experts don't agree with. Her Madge doesn't like that.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

You won't see an Englishman knighted for football achievements until that World Cup is won.

Sir Bobby Robson wouldn't agree with you

 

[Azrael]

The Queen (who is a secret member of SC)

It's Welshie isn't it?

 

[MattyP]

Not looking to advocate this or get slated for even suggesting it, but Harry is the first ever English manager to get a club to this stage of the CL, so the debate is...what does he have to do, to become Sir Harry Redknapp?

I'd suggest paying taxes in full would be a good starting point :wink:

 

[Azrael]

Sir Bobby Robson wouldn't agree with you

Possibly he would considering we are talking about what is to come, not what has passed.

Besides, Robson has won a whole host of top competitions let alone his 8 year tenure as England manager. No Englishman has come anywhere close to doing what he did and no Englishman these days will manage at the level he did (he won tropies for Barca FFS) and stay in the England job as long.

Surely, Bobby didn't win the WC, but he did just about everything else. Compare that to Harry. Even if he wins us the CL, what else would have have achieved? Won a few promotions to the PL? An FA Cup? These aren't exactly stand out things and, the CL aside, they are things already achieved by other England manager.
Now, if/when, Harry takes the England job, if he does well for them you might then see him knighted.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

Far too early to even think about it. Harry is doing a great job and only time will tell how far he can take us.

Bill Nicholson managed the first team to win the Double in the 20th century and the first British team to bring home a European trophy and he took Spurs to a semi final in the European Cup (equivalent of today's Champions League Cup) when we went out on aggregate to Benfica due to some poor refereeing decisions (very little change there then).

If anyone deserved a knighthood, it was "Sir" Bill RIP and to us he will always rank as one of the highest in football nobility.

Harry is perhaps the closest manager to Billy Nick that we have had, as an old-fashioned manager with a traditional style, but he has a long way to go yet to emulate his success rate.

 

[faymantaray]

I'd suggest paying taxes in full would be a good starting point :wink:

This just sent me into hysterics :rofl:

 

[CosmicHotspur]

True, he might have to be dubbed Sir Harry in a prison cell...

 

[Gassin's finest]

Not that I'm dissing Harry at all, but I fail to see how managing a football team to a trophy is deserving of the highest honour that can be bestowed. Surely there are a million other people who care, fight, campaign, cure, protect and advance are more deserving of such recognition than celebrities?

Apologies if I just turned this into a thread about the policy of handing out honours...

 

[WhiteStripe]

Not that I'm dissing Harry at all, but I fail to see how managing a football team to a trophy is deserving of the highest honour that can be bestowed. Surely there are a million other people who care, fight, campaign, cure, protect and advance are more deserving of such recognition than celebrities?

Apologies if I just turned this into a thread about the policy of handing out honours...

Yup, but that's as you say, another thread topic altogether. We all know that honours are dished out all too easily nowadays.

 

[EmperorKabir]

also arry doesn't have fergie's loyalty. he goes where the money is and still has a bit of a detachment to the club, banging on about us being relegation fodder when he took over etc.

he will probably end up as england manager, though i dunno if he will do much with the current england players. he would have to win the euros at the very least which even then looks a tall order.

 

[Mullers]

Not looking to advocate this or get slated for even suggesting it, but Harry is the first ever English manager to get a club to this stage of the CL, so the debate is...what does he have to do, to become Sir Harry Redknapp?

Winning something would be a start. Winning the CL might get him a knighthood somewhere down the line.