Yes, dear old Harry, the man with the hangdog expression and more chins than a chinese phonebook. With the kind of face that only a mother could love, I have the sneaking suspicion that he only named his secret Monaco account after his pet bulldog as, with the similarity in appearance, he was hoping that Rosie the dog would be up before the beak instead of him.
No oil painting he may be, but there is no doubt in my mind that Harry Rednapp has been a godsend for Tottenham Hotspur. After first having pulled them out of the mire, he's steadily led them into the upper echelons of English football in the space of three seasons. Not particularly known for his tactical “nouse”, he nevertheless has the ability to inspire and motivate his teams, and he’s bought well and his team have gelled together marvellously.
Yet this is a man in the same mould as Terry Venables, coming from the same “old-school” style of management where business was conducted in a “different” way (to put it politely). You might call it a kind of “back-alley” type of management – a quick deal here, a brown paper bag there. Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, stick it in my sky-rocket and say no more, my son.
For my mind though, this persona of Harry's allied with this current court case against him could turn out to be very good news indeed for all us Spurs fans. If we can presume for a moment that Mr. Rednapp is able to avoid a spell at her Majesty’s pleasure for any wrongdoing that may be proven, then it must be reasonable for us to assume that the English F.A could well be put off by the news of all these back-door dealings and shenanigans. When they do finally come to consider who is going to replace Capello, then his name may well be struck from the list of potential candidates after this unsavoury business. After all, this was precisely the reason that Terry Venable’s tenure as England manager was curtailed, wasn’t it?
All this is, of course, pointless conjecture on my part. There is no way to know what may, or may not, go on within the walls of the F.A headquarters or what machinations may take place between now and appointment time. But for any Spurs fans reading this, it may well be a case of “greed is good”… because it may help Tottenham to keep hold of a top-notch manager and help sustain the momentum that he's so ably built up.
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The title of this post is "Greed Is Good", but you will see from my P&L tonight that I have been anything but greedy. Relatively low figures but I'm still happy to even have a P&L: normally on Tuesday and Wednesday it doesn't exist at all.
With a more stable than usual internet connection in my hotel, I managed to do some cautious trading on the Carling Cup match tonight. My usual trading methods are, as I've mentioned before, not something I like to pursue whilst away from my broadband - but having a hamstrung connection does lead me to explore different ways to trade, which is always interesting.
Tonight, for example, I dabbled with small stakes in the "To Qualify" market, which is something I've never done before and it was something of an eye-opener. If any of you have never traded this market before then can I suggest you take a look. There are some definite possibilities there and the odds move in a completely different way to all other markets, ebbing and flowing before finally settling out around evens for each team up to the penalty shootout.
I also tried out a different technique on the Correct Score market. As mentioned at length on a previous post, this market has almost boundless possibilities, and trying new ideas out is always well worth doing, even if they fail.
By the way, Palace did well to hold out as long as they did tonight, but Cardiff were deserved winners.
Football: £35.86 | Tote: | Total P&L: £35.86
Football Showing 1 - 4 of 4 markets
Market Start time Settled date Profit/loss (£)
Football / Cardiff v C Palace : To Qualify 24-Jan-12 19:45 24-Jan-12 22:31 7.49
Football / Cardiff v C Palace : ET - Correct Score 24-Jan-12 19:45 24-Jan-12 22:21 10.49
Football / Cardiff v C Palace : Correct Score 24-Jan-12 19:45 24-Jan-12 21:46 14.58
Football / Cardiff v C Palace : Match Odds 24-Jan-12 19:45 24-Jan-12 21:42 3.30
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