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 with a devastating performance at White Hart Lane.
Redknapp was cleared of tax evasion charges on Wednesday and later that day was installed as favourite for the England job after Fabio Capello resigned. But that did not distract his team as goals from Louis Saha (two), Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Niko Kranjcar and Emmanuel Adebayor handed them a 5-0 win over the helpless Magpies.
"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 today.
"It was a good all round performance."
Newcastle held Spurs to a 2-2 draw at St James' Park earlier this season but barely threatened on Sunday.
Manager Alan Pardew said: "Tottenham were irresistible today. Some of the things they were doing, they were doing for fun, Adebayor and Saha were a real handful for us.
"They had an extra bounce in their step after what happened to their manager this week.
"They all wanted to show they wanted their manager to stay but we should have done better for the first two goals.
"What we showed today isn't a true reflection of us this season, though."
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It's no use Rosemary, he's not listening.
to put this in order HARRY is up there with BILL NICHOLESON harry could become the best manager Spurs have ever had,HARRY dont take the ENGLAND job the FA will destroy your reputation and your health,stay at SPURS and become that best ever manager at WHL.Ive been a SPURS supporter since 1956,ive had the highs and the lows, relegation,cup wins, double winning,SO I PLEAD WITH YOU HARRY STAY AND GIVE US SUPPORTERS MORE, HELP US TO FEEL LIKE WE ARE WINNERS AGAIN.
Don't Go Harry
It would be a shame if Harry left Tottenham. It's a poison chalice and the FA don't deserve him anyway. At Spurs, a top four finish would be considered good, runners up excellent.The premiership - wow!!! And a good FA CUP run would be well received.
With England, anything short of winning the European Championship or the World Cup, would be deemed failure.
And winning one of those for England with the players at his disposal would be very hard, even for Harry!!
As a Spurs fan i think Harry has done so much for us ,champions league was just a dream and top 4 finish this year was an ask but it is now ours to give away.I don't think we could have asked for more !
Harry is in his late sixties now and retirement is probably on his mind in the next few years anyway,so i think if asked he will certainly go for the England job.
But i agree there is far to much hype and then even more negativity with England .Capello is a world class manager and his record was good .We have never really found out what went wrong in the last world cup and why so many players looked like they did not want to be there in particular the so called world class Rooney ?
Harry is a great motivator and England do always look like they need this ,but imagine the press if he fails and if they dig any dirt on him .There is only one person who could replace him at Spurs" Mourinho". Harry this is your moment....push on with more new players and win something at Spurs or sail off into the sunset with England.
harry to stay your players said it and the fans say it you have a career with spurs. the England job will finish you harry with all the negativity it brings .
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