This is how Harry calls for the police.
Harry Redknapp's trip to watch potential Spurs transfer target Diego Forlan play the second leg of Atletico Madrid's doomed Copa del Rey tie against Real Madrid at the Vicente Calderon resulted in lost money and a brush with the Spanish capital's less than subtle criminal element.
The Telegraph's Henry Winter reports the harrowing tale:
The morning after the robbery before, Redknapp sat at Tottenham Hotspur’s Chigwell retreat, still shaking his head. “I’m walking round the outside of the stadium with [assistant manager] Kevin Bond before kick-off and it’s a fantastic atmosphere,” he recalled. “I bought some sweets and the next thing there’s two guys on their knees in front of me, tugging my trousers."
OK, this can go a lot of different ways. Let's hope none of them involve Harry standing outside the Vicente Calderon, eating sweets without his trousers on.
“I didn’t know whether to knee them in the gob. I’m going ‘let go’, pushing them away. While I’m doing that they’re rifling my pockets. ‘I saw them do it,’ Kevin said. ‘Well why didn’t you do something about it?!’ I said.
“I hope Kev wasn’t part of the gang! He’s got a few quid on him today!”
Kev was most definitely part of the gang. He just watched these reach in his boss' pockets and didn't say or do anything? He was definitely part of the gang, Harry. In fact, this while trip might have been an elaborate ploy for him to get his hands on your wallet.
The pair watched Forlán losing to Real Madrid but left early. “We got a cab back to this little restaurant and we had to ask the man in there for some euros to pay the taxi,” Redknapp added.
“I said to Kevin, ‘I bet the gang are in the restaurant, drinking the best wine and having the best steak’. Me and Kevin didn’t have enough money to have a glass of wine.”
Wait, why didn't Kevin have any money either? Did he get robbed too, or does he just never carry money with him, hoping generous restaurateurs will pay for his taxis all the time?
This whole thing sounds fishy, especially since Harry also said that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy wouldn't pay Forlan's £100,000-plus a week wages. Yes, I think Harry was the victim of an inside job here. Or he just needs to be more suspicious of men who tug at his trousers outside football stadiums.
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