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Bet he's twitching more than ever now.

Redknapp charged with tax evasion
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has been charged with two counts of tax evasion.
Mr Redknapp, 62, was charged with cheating the public revenue of about £40,000, at Bishopsgate police station.
It relates to two payments totalling US $295,000 allegedly made by former Portsmouth chairman Milan Mandaric to Mr Redknapp via a Monaco bank account.
Mr Mandaric was charged with tax evasion on Tuesday and both men are due before magistrates next month.
Mr Mandaric, 71, is currently the chairman of Leicester City.
A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said: "The CPS Revenue and Customs Division decided there was sufficient evidence and it was in the public interest to charge Mr Redknapp.


“ Harry has co-operated fully with investigators during the course of this inquiry and is confident of a successful outcome ”
Ian Burton Harry Redknapp's solicitor
"He is jointly charged with Milan Mandaric, the former chairman of Portsmouth Football Club, following an investigation by the City of London Police and HM Revenue and Customs."
A CPS spokesman told the BBC that, as a common law offence, there is technically no maximum sentence for the charge - meaning that an unlimited fine or prison sentence could be decided at a judge's discretion.
Ian Burton, Mr Redknapp's solicitor, said: "Harry has co-operated fully with investigators during the course of this inquiry and is confident of a successful outcome to these court proceedings."
Mr Burton, of law firm BurtonCopeland, added: "The £40,000 figure is our estimate."
The charges relate to Mr Redknapp's time as Portsmouth manager.
It is alleged he evaded tax and national insurance contributions between 1 April 2002 and 28 November 2007.
Mr Redknapp was originally arrested in November 2007 by investigators looking at deals between Portsmouth and Birmingham City.
At the time he accused the police of targeting him simply because of his high profile.
'Non-football matter'
He left the club in 2008 to join his current employer.
Tottenham Hotspur have previously said the case will not affect his employment because it was a private, non-football matter and pre-dated his tenure at the club.
Following the charges, a spokesman for the club told the BBC: "His position remains unaffected and it is a private matter."
Since taking over at Tottenham Mr Redknapp has guided the club from the threat of relegation to contention for European qualification this season.
Portsmouth are mired in financial difficulties and have been unable to pay players on several occasions.


Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie was also questioned during the 26-month police inquiry about the transfer of former player Amdy Faye to the club from French side Auxerre for £1.5m in August 2003.
Mr Storrie was subsequently charged with concealing a signing-on fee during the deal by paying it into the midfielder's bank account. He is due to appear at Southwark Crown Court on 20 January.
Birmingham City's former managing director Karren Brady and former co-owner David Sullivan were also investigated by police, but no further action was taken against them.
Mr Redknapp is due to appear at the City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on 11 February.
In May 2008 Mr Redknapp sued City of London Police for arresting him and searching his home in Poole, Dorset.
The High Court ruled the search was unlawful and granted him £1,000 in damages.

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Doesn't suprise me, he's been at it for years.

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Every guy in our office seems to do a 'Arry impression....

"Bung........I ain't got a clue wot a bung even is. I just go to work and go 'ome to Sandra and 'ave a glass of wine in the evening"

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Football world stunned by how little Redknapp hid from tax man
Posted By Editor On January 15, 2010 @ 9:09 am In Sports | Comments Disabled
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has been charged with £40,000 worth of tax evasion, leaving the football world stunned by how little cash he has actually hidden over the years.
After completing an investigation which began several years ago, the Crown Prosecution told us, “The CPS Revenue and Customs Division decided there was little chance of finding the millions we assumed he had hidden.”
“The office sweepstake had an average prediction of two million in used notes hidden all over his house.”
“Yes, we know, £40,000 is a bit pathetic, isn’t it.”
Disappointed
The news of Redknapp’s charge has been met with disappointment among fans of his current club Tottenham Hotspur.
Spurs supporter spokesperson Simon Goldberg said, “We’re all little bit disappointed to be honest. Harry has got a reputation as a wheeler dealer, yet in all those years, and with all those millions that had passed through him, he only avoided £40k in tax?”
“I mean, have you checked in all of his mattresses? Behind all his paintings? In his garden shed?”
“Finding Harry guilty of £40k tax evasions is a bit like finding out Warren Beaty spent his entire adult life living and working in the playboy mansion but that the best he ever did was to get a hand job from one of the cleaners.”
“Worst of all, I suppose this means he really did think David Bentley was worth £15m?”

Liverpool
Tottenham are playing trouble hit club Liverpool this weekend with the Liverpool board this morning describing manager Benitez’s job as ’safe’.
A club statement read, “The manager’s job at Liverpool here is safe.”
“You know, safe, sick, phat or whatever words the kids use today to describe something really, really good. Why? Are you interested?”
Liverpool fans have pleaded with the manager to continue playing top scorer Fernando Torres, despite knee surgery this week.
“Seriously, on one leg and with crutches, Torres still offers significantly more of a goal threat than David Ngog.”


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