Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp ‘mugged and pick-pocketed’ in Madrid
By ANISaturday, January 22, 2011
LONDON - Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp was pick-pocketed at a football match between Atletico and Real at Madrid in Spain on Thursday.
Redknapp, who had gone to the match, said: “It was difficult to concentrate on the game, because I got mugged before. Well, I got my pockets picked.”
He said two men fell to their knees in front of him and tugged at his trouser legs to distract him while four others took money and items from his pockets.
Asked what was taken, he added: “Everything. All my money, credit cards. I’m walking round the outside of the stadium and I got some sweets from a stall.”
Redknapp, who was unharmed, added: “The next thing there’s two guys on their knees in front of me and they’ve got my trousers and keep pulling them. I’m going ‘Let go of my trousers’, pushing them away. There’s about six of them. They went and I realised what they’d done.”
The Spurs manager said he did not believe the muggers knew who he was. “I just probably looked stupid or something, and they thought here’s one here, he’s not Spanish, obviously and we’re looking for a foreigner,” he said.
Real Madrid won the match at Atletico’s Vicente Calderon Stadium 1-0, The BBC reports.
Redknapp said the incident unsettled him and he left about 15 minutes before the end of the game, which he attended to watch potential transfer target Diego Forlan, the former Manchester United striker. (ANI)
