Harry denies England job talk caused Spurs' slump

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has denied that rumours of him taking the vacant England manager's job at the end of the season has not been the cause for Spurs' recent slump down the Premier League table. In midweek, Arsenal leapfrogged Redknapp's side into 3rd place in the Premier League.

Spurs have been ahead of Arsenal all season in the race for 3rd place in the Premier League, but for the first time since September, the Gunners are now ahead of their fierce rivals.


Reporters asked if the England job talk had been one reason why Spurs have slipped down the league table, but Redknapp said: "Absolute nonsense, that is the biggest load of nonsense I've ever heard in my life. The players don't care whether I'm the manager next year.


"That's football. Footballers are footballers.


"They play the game, they come in every day and train, somebody else walks in here tomorrow, the king is dead long live the king.


"They don't worry 'Harry's going to England' or 'he's going to go somewhere else'. They don't think about that, I don't think about it.


"It never enters my mind. I don't think what's going to happen to me at the end of the season. Whatever happens to me happens to me.


"I don't lose any sleep over it one way or the other - whether I'm here, somewhere else or nowhere. That's life."