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Harry Redknapp has hit out at the Football Association, insisting the English game is being run by people who ‘haven’t got a clue’.
In the first part of a serialisation of his forthcoming autobiography, Redknapp has revealed in the Daily Mail that he feels English football is in the wrong hands.
But he insists it is not a diatribe at the FA over their failure to appoint him ahead of Roy Hodgson in early 2012.
“I wouldn’t trust the FA to show me a good manager if their lives depended on it. How would they know? What clubs have they ever run? Who do they speak to who really knows the game?” Redknapp says.
“This isn’t about them giving the England job to me or Roy Hodgson, but English football being run by people who really haven’t got a clue. And they get to pick the England manager!”
Redknapp admits he fears England will struggle if they get to the World Cup in Brazil and suggested they were too direct during Euro 2012.
“If you look at England against Italy at Euro 2012, and I know it was difficult for Roy because he had just come in, but when your best pass completion statistic is from Joe Hart to Andy Carroll – goalkeeper to big lump of centre-forward, bypassing nine outfield players – you know you’ve got a problem,” he said.
“No other major country would record a stat like that. Don’t we all want to see England play the game properly?”