NICE ONE HARRY. SAD TO SEE YOU GO.

Harry's resigned; is it because he has got a bad knee or possibly after the failure to sign Adebayor at the deadline or has he just had enough? Born on the 2nd of March 1947 in Poplar-a true East Ender, he is the oldest manager in the English Football league. A youth at Spurs in the late 1950s, Harry's career as a player continued with West Ham (149 appearances 1965-1972), Bournemouth (101 apps 1972-76)), Brentford (1), Seattle Sounders as player/coach (1976-9-24) and then Bournemouth again, drawing a curtain over his playing career in 1982. He was a "jobbing" player, never good enough to be a regular at the higher level.
He then took to management with Bournemouth in 1983, West Ham, Portsmouth (twice), Southampton (a controversial move along the Solent), Tottenham, where he had a huge success and then QPR. Many would say he failed to bring the flair to QPR that he achieved at White Hart Lane, maybe it was the lack of money??!!
In his career he has become MARMITE. Even today QPR supporters have been praising the decision to get rid of him, whilst others have shown regret. But whatever, Harry has had his moments; he has sailed close to the wind, something that prevented him from being called to manage his country. Trust him or love him? Alledgedly, he has be involved in various dodgy moments, which have not been proven. But "tapping up", "bungs", racehorse scandals, fraud, false accounting, HM revenue and customs and a mugging in Spain have appeared along side his name in the papers.
He has a lovely home on Sandbanks, Poole, a fabulously loyal wife, son Jamie is a well known good guy and Frank Lampard, a nephew-butter wouldn't melt....he was very much part of the old West Ham academy of football. Harry does many positive things including charitable works, which should not be forgotten.
Let's hope his knee gets sorted soon so he can walk his dogs along that beach (with a plastic bag I hope).