Harry Redknapp thanked Tottenham's fans for helping him end the most difficult week of his life on a high as the Londoners ripped Newcastle apart 5-0 with a devastating performance at White Hart Lane.
Louis Saha scored his first two goals for the club and there were also strikes from Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Niko Kranjcar and Emmanuel Adebayor to move Spurs within five points of Barclays Premier League leaders Manchester United.
The performance was one of the team's best of the season and came amid a background of almost constant adulation from the home crowd towards their manager, who started the week in the dock but by Wednesday afternoon found himself in the clear and suddenly in pole position to take over as England's head coach following Fabio Capello's shock resignation.
The home support sang "Harry Redknapp, we want you to stay" on several occasions during the rout as they made it clear that they want the 64-year-old to snub England.
"The crowd have been brilliant with me, they've been great and I appreciated their support," Redknapp said.
"This was the most difficult week I've ever had. I wouldn't want anyone to go through that and what it's done to my family was worse. But it's behind us now and the week's turned out good. Things turned out right and the lads played well. It was a good all-round performance."
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you shouldnt leave for the england job harry,spurs are playing the best football in england at the moment and cant be ruled out of winning the title.A delight to watch football like you played against newcastle .i'm a liverpool fan and when we played you last week there were many fans saying how well you defend aswell as attack,Great team thats going places...stay with them harry!
See Harry we show you week in week out that you're loved at the lane,WHY would you want to leave?You know where you are with Levy,but you will have to be up the FA's arse to know where you stand with them,as for the gutter press they will destroy your career,look at what they are doing to Pearcy & he is only temp manager.
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