Redknapp wary of City threat

March 11, 2010

Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp reckons Manchester City are the team to beat when it comes to the race for fourth place.

Spurs are battling it out for fourth with City, Liverpool and Aston Villa and Redknapp sees Roberto Mancini's fifth-placed City side - level on points with Spurs with a game in hand - as the biggest threat.

Redknapp said: "We're right in there and have got a great chance. Manchester City are the team to watch out for."

What do you think? Have your say.

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Bert is my hero, Cheshire! (11/03/2010 at 16:15)

Redknapp is as aware of the obvious as anyone - to come fourth you can only let 3 teams do better of the season than you do. They're all dangerous, so keep performing well - and keep winning, City!

Harmindah Shah, Upper Ramsbottom (11/03/2010 at 16:28)

Harry is a genius to come to that conclusion.

Howard (11/03/2010 at 16:38)

Lets simplify all this chat, talk and predictions from many areas. Of the big teams, Spurs have to play the top 3 plus City. Liverpool play the top 2 but have played more. Villa has the far easiest run in and games in hand. But as long City do THERE JOB there should be no reason to be concerned, it's in there own hands. Again!!

bluelight, Levenshulme (11/03/2010 at 16:50)

Does that pass as an article?

stuart malcolm (11/03/2010 at 17:17)

Typical 'Arry!

Moonhead (11/03/2010 at 17:58)

So he should be!

bluemoon risin' (11/03/2010 at 18:24)

PMA- positive mental attitude, from Bobby Manc to the players, and PMA from us, long suffering diehard cynical blues[in the ground] wouldn't go amiss either!

I think we'll do it, and if my positivity is perceived by some as being a clapper, then i'm clapping!

Clap clap clap.

Batmanho, Robinhos big brother, Bat Cave, Brazil (11/03/2010 at 18:40)

Short and sweet from this wideboy, you've got too many Croatians in your team to be a major threat 'Arry boy!

bennyblue, Miami (11/03/2010 at 18:56)

great article.

Whaley Bridge Cynic (11/03/2010 at 20:14)

Who cares what he thinks?
Who cares what Beckham thinks?
Who cares what Shrek or Baconface think?

It's in our hands so we've only got ourselves to blame if we don't make it

Blue_heart (11/03/2010 at 20:34)

Redknapp mind games. Nothing else to say.

Stuart Booth (11/03/2010 at 21:20)

Need to keep an eye on Everton, too. They seen to have turning over a few good teams recently.

bornblue, Ulverston (11/03/2010 at 21:38)

Need to keep an eye on Everton, too. They seen to have turning over a few good teams recently.
Stuart Booth
11/03/2010 at 21:20

But not us on 24th....

StretfordBLUE in America, Born a BLUE and Forever (11/03/2010 at 21:53)

Harry, Harry, please we aren't 'avin it. Stop the mind games.

Belmont Blue, CA, USA (11/03/2010 at 21:54)

Thanks for the support Harry....and before you ask....No! you can't have Craig Bellamy.

Dave Kinkladze, Worsley (12/03/2010 at 00:14)

I would hereby like to offer my services as a football journalist free of charge to the Manchester Evening News for the next 12 months. All I ask is a ticket to see every City game and access to press conferences and I will revitalise beyond recognition the anaemic waffle that limps forth from its pages.

There are llamas patrolling the mountains of the Andes, some of whom speak little or no English, that could conjure a more electrifying piece than this latest debacle.

I do not promise to light up your sports section with the vernacular of Stuart Hall, nor the literary dexterity of Dickens, Dahl, King or Shakespeare - but I guarantee to regularly outshine this most insipid piece, one of countless similar imagination-free space fillers, and who knows, I might even throw in the odd amusing metaphor.

I await your reply. By the way, I think Harry's right - City are the biggest to Spurs' fourth place aspirations - Liverpool's performance tonight was as bad as the nameless journo who probably compiled this feeble offering sat on the toilet.

manchester,were the majority of utd fans watch them on tv, salford (12/03/2010 at 00:49)

if we make the top 4 this season , we will be there for quite a few years , we will have more massive investment , and you never know city fans might outnumber the scum fans watching on telly , in your local watering hole , proclaiming to be hardcore supporters , with the "i cant get a ticket" excuse.

Pivo, Manchester (12/03/2010 at 00:52)

Harry the spiv up to his usual mind games, only this time he's right, we are the ones to watch out for. All we have to do is prove him right by taking the 3 points when we eventually meet at Eastlands.

nick wood (12/03/2010 at 07:50)

its ours to lose, but im feeling fairly confident.............. so long as the bin dippers dont get it!!!

Gerry Gow's jockstrap (12/03/2010 at 08:49)

What he means is that he always gets a team into administration. So spurs are sure to have points taken off them.

Andrew Shaw (12/03/2010 at 09:17)

He knows we are the main threat and he knows his team will fall away fairly soon when they come up against Chelsea, Arse and Man U in consecutive matches followed up by an away trip to Eastlands which, contrary to Stuart Brennan, I would have down as a home win.

Uwe the Goat, Brighton (12/03/2010 at 09:22)

I saw the Spurs Made in Croatia goal the other day. They have a lot of quality and are the only other team apart from us in the mix to have a decent squad beyond the first 11.

We need to hope the replay against Fulham is taxing but Spurs go through with cards and bumps aplenty, and then have extra time plus penalties against Portsmouth with more bumps and cards. I fancy Portsmouth to cause an upset.

What I honestly believe Mancini needs to do is to make Craig Bellamy captain and let him demand that we go for it at a high tempo in every game.

We can't keep slipping into slow paced football, we have the ammunition that the teams we will be playing don't, we have more quality players, we should have fresher legs, we have to go all out attack.

This is the final third of the season, you have to dominate and seek to exploit the match fatigue of the lesser teams.

Against Sundeland, I want us to play a high line, hog possession and look to carve out quality, precision chances for our nippy players to exploit.

I do not want to see us play three holding midfielders and slow the whole game down to walking pace.

If Steve Bruce isn't mouthing another sackload of excuses after 90 minutes then we haven't done our job and we can't finish fourth.

PhilB65, City Forever (12/03/2010 at 12:35)

If dirty 'arry is talking about us then he is worried. We have to do the business. Good call by Uwe the Goat - Bellers as captain and a high tempo sounds good to me!

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