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Article: DON'T SIGN THIS FASCIST, HARRY.(Column)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 28, 2005
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Byline: PAUL HAYWARD
AS a good East End boy who was born in Poplar two years after the end of the war, Harry Redknapp knows better than most what Benito Mussolini's German pals did to that part of London in the Blitz. As manager of Portsmouth, he wouldn't have to go far to hear how many sailors died on ships that sailed from the great dockyards of the South Coast.
Redknapp is English football's great internationalist. One day the United Nations will pin a medal on him for turning his teams into multinational enclaves. There were times when West Ham's training ground resembled Ellis Island, even if the 'needy' immigrants sometimes needed reclassifying as ...