A new biography of one of England's greatest football managers from the Guardian journalist and author of Vertigo, John Crace.

Who is Harry Redknapp?

Redknapp divides opinion like few other managers. Is he the greatest English manager never to have managed England since Brian Clough? Or have England dodged a bullet? And how was it that he was ever seriously considered for the job when his trial for tax evasion had yet to be heard?

The facts of Redknapp's story are almost as well known as his one-liners. The East-End boy who played for West Ham, badly injured in a car crash, and went on to manage Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and QPR. But what makes him tick? Could it be that the same qualities that have made him such a successful manager are the very same ones that came close to ending his career?

In Harry's Games, John Crace explores these apparent contradictions in order to make sense of English football's very own Greek tragedy.

'[A] clever, insightful biography.' Mail on Sunday

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