Spot the Difference

Tuesday, 06 January 09, 09:35 PM · Comments(1)

Joe Walton

This time last year, Harry Redknapp was working out a deal to sign Jermain Defoe at Portsmouth.

This this time this year, Harry Redknapp has worked out a deal to sign Jermain Defoe from Portsmouth.

One of them sulks to the media when he doesn’t get his way, doesn’t turn up to training, follows the money and goes back to a club he left in rancorous circumstances. The other is Jermain Defoe.

After going to the press on numerous occasions, putting pressure on his erstwhile colleague Tony Adams, Harry Redknapp has brought back to Tottenham the same player that left a year ago, but for nearly double the fee.

After the shoddy way both have treated Adams, Portsmouth and clubs before, they deserve each other.

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