Harry Redknapp: ‘Without football I’d still be on the docks’

The football manager, 72, talks about growing up in the East End, running over his wife and watching Stanley Matthews with his dad I loved growing up in the East End after the war. I had a great life. I started off in one room above my great- grandmother’s little house in Poplar, in Barchester Street. Then we moved on to the Burdett Estate, in Mile End, and it was amazing. There were 20 big blocks of flats and in the middle of all that was our own little world. We played football in there all night until it was too dark to see. Without football I’d probably still be working in the docks. My dad was a docker, my uncle was a docker, my granddads were dockers. Everybody was dockers. My wife Sandra’s family were all dockers, too. Every one of them. Her dad, her uncle. They all worked there. That’s just what you did. Continue reading...