Harry Redknapp has been giving it plenty in the wake of Ledley King's tanked-up bout of "Where's Your Ferrari?" with a nightclub bouncer.
The saggy-faced one says he's implementing a ban on booze at The White Hart White Hart Lane. "I'll implement a strong rule next season that drinking is a no-no here," Redknapp tells the Currant Bun. "Footballers should dedicate their lives to playing."
Surely this isn't the same Harry Redknapp, who before March's Carling Cup Final told the press: "I’ve got no time really for drinking in football. I don’t see any reason why footballers should have a drink. We prepared right for Sunday’s final. No-one was even allowed to look at a glass of wine. Players should be totally dedicated. Would I have let them go out and have a blow-out if we’d won? No.”
Indeed, in that same pre-Cup interview, Redknapp claimed: "At West Ham I made it no-alcohol-allowed in the players’ bar when I took over as manager."
Which obviously worked a treat when both Trevor Sinclair and Neil Ruddock were charged after the 1998 Christmas Party. "They were out on their Christmas party. I just told them to enjoy themselves and to make sure they behave," Redknapp explained afterwards. What did he think 25 young men were going to do on a night out in Romford? Go to the cinema.
Does funny things to you, alcohol.
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