So bad with faces I’d no idea I was talking to Beatrice
His triumph brought an avalanche of opportunities, including publication of his latest autobiography The World According To Harry.
“It’s been crazy,” he confirms. “When I came out, people were saying, ‘You ain’t going to believe it. It’s manic’. The biggest difference is who talks to me now.
“It used to be mostly just blokes talking about football but now it’s everyone; women and children too but I ain’t got a problem with it. I’ve always got time for people.”
We chat in his favourite fish restaurant Rick Stein’s – yards from the £4million beach house in Sandbanks, Dorset, he shares with Sandra and bulldogs Lulu and Barney.
Still smitten after more than half a century, Harry and Sandra gaze at each other throughout the interview. The fact he very nearly left Sandra permanently disabled after accidentally running her over in his Range Rover in 2016 hasn’t changed a thing.
“We have honestly never had a row and she didn’t blame me for turning her ankle into what looked like a slice of bacon,” says the ex-Spurs, West Ham and Bournemouth manager.
“It was my fault entirely as I wasn’t concentrating. She had to have skin grafts after half of her ankle was left in the road but you couldn’t have a row with my missus if you tried. She’s so placid.
“I don’t know what I’d do without her. She’s my electrician, my chef, my handyman, my chippie
Harry not recognised Harry & Sandra wed in 1967 HARRY REDKNAPP ON LIFE SINCE HIS WIN Harry and son Jamie in 1995 Harry & Sandra after I’m a Celeb
and a good
Samaritan to everyone.” Sandra’s remarkable listening skills have been invaluable in the past two years.
In 2017 former Tottenham and Liverpool midfielder Jamie
It’s been crazy and manic but I’ve always got time for people
HARRY has made some right royal gaffes by not recognising faces. The Jungle King says: “I was at this event and [my son] Jamie introduced me to this lovely posh girl. We got talking about horses. I said my nan was a bookie’s runner. She said, ‘My gran loves racing’.
“So I said, ‘Oh, does she?’ and she said, ‘Yes. My gran owns the horse that won the Gold Cup at Ascot last year’. And it came to me.
“The Queen won the Gold Cup and I was thinking, it can’t be, can it?’ It was Princess Beatrice, although it could have been the other one, what’s her name? Eugenie. I can’t tell them apart.”
And Harry also dropped the ball at a physio session for a knee injury