Harry targets Capello’s job

As the pressure mounts on Fabio Capello, Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has hinted that he would be interested in taking the English job.

Speaking to Talksport radio, Redknapp said, “The FA have got a manager and until he’s not the manager it’s difficult to talk about it, but I’m English, who wouldn’t want to manage England?

“There’s not an Englishman – whether it’s me, Roy Hodgson or Sam Allardyce – who would turn the job down because it’s our country and we want to manage our country.

“No one is ever going to turn that job down. If you’re English you cannot not want to manage your country.”

Redknapp also criticised the FA for continually appointing foreign managers.

“Could you imagine an Englishman managing the Italian national team,” he said. “It doesn’t happen. The Germans are the same, they have a German manager. We’ve ended up with two foreign managers.

“Capello has a fantastic record at club level. But look, we’ve had a go with it now. When he finally moves on, in four years or whatever, surely there has to be a young guy or somebody in this country, surely we have to find a manager from England, an English manager.”

He added, “We should be able to produce someone who can manage the England football team and let’s be honest, they can’t do any worse than what Sven and Capello have done.”