Probably not. You know how these things go. But it can’t be warming the cockles of Brian Barwick’s Mr. Belvedere-sized heart to know that the England coach, already under investigation for tax evasion in Italy, is now being investigated for perjury in connection with yet another sensational legal case involving corruption in Italian football.

See? See? What have we been saying all this time? You should never mess with Harry Redknapp!
What’s that? Oh, you do want to mess with him? Fine! Why don’t you try charging him with suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting? Does that sound good to you, “City of London Police”? Well, then, issue [...]

In addition to being one of the best football bloggers on the internet, Tom Dunmore of Pitch Invasion is also a generous soul, and he has kindly invited me to write a weekly feature for his site. This week’s post is a field guide to the recent whirl of corruption investigations in English football: [...]

Harry Redknapp has been released on bail—as if a jail could hold Harry—and has spoken out about his run-in with Johnny Law this morning. He’s innocent, of course. But his defense goes beyond mere protestations of righteousness and into a realm of counter-intuitive logic so breathtaking that it would probably take 60 more police officers [...]

Harry Redknapp has been arrested “on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting,” as part of an ongoing investigation into corruption in football, according to this report from the Evening Standard. Also arrested were Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie, Rangers midfielder Amdy Faye, prominent agent Willie McKay, and Leicester City chairman Milan Mandaric. If [...]