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‘Del Boy’ Harry lost sparkle at the Blues

MAY, 2014. Harry Redknapp is sitting in Wigan’s media room. His face is flushed, his expensive suit rumpled.
QPR have just slogged out a turgid 0-0 draw at the DW Stadium, the first leg of a Championship play-off competition they would eventually win.
Not a single one of those tedious 90 minutes lodged in the memory. But one postmatch question did.
Asked if a run to the Champions League quarter-finals with Spurs had equipped him to deal with play-off pressure, Redknapp barked out a laugh.
“Oh yeah…” he said. “Playing AC Milan in the San Siro, 70,000 people. Ro...

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