Manchester United legend Gary Neville’s war of words with and Harry Redknapp ramps up after pundit posts spreadsheet comparing managerial records
Sky Sports pundit caused controversy on Monday Night Football branding Spurs 'spineless and soft, flaky, rubbish' over the last 30 years
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GARY NEVILLE'S war of words with Harry Redknapp has been ramped up this morning after the Sky pundit shared a spreadsheet suggesting he had a better managerial record than the former Tottenham boss.
Neville, 43, infuriated Redknapp on Monday by claiming Spurs have been “spineless and soft, flaky, rubbish” over the last 30 years.
Redknapp branded the ex-Manchester United star comments “an absolute disgrace” and said the Valencia team managed by Neville was "the worst not just in the last 30 years but in their history".
He added: “He wants to do his homework before he comes on and talks about people in that tone.”
Neville then took a cheeky pop at Redknapp this morning by posting a spreadsheet on Twitter, revealing his win percentage while in charge of Valencia was better than the 71-year-old’s 118 game stints at QPR and Birmingham City.
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He posted the stats on social media to show his time in Spain was not as bad as some made out.
He tweeted: “Homework’s done Sir.”
The Sky Sports pundit took over at the Mestalla in December 2015 and was sacked three months later.
However, Valencia won ten of the 28 games he took charge of, winning 36 per cent of his matches.
Compare that with Redknapp’s time at Loftus Road where he won 34 per cent of his games and in his 13 game reign at St Andrew's, where it dropped to 31 per cent.
But Redknapp has now responded to Neville's stat attack and told talkSPORT today that Neville is "not man enough" to admit he is wrong.
The 71-year-old managerial veteran said: “To say that for 30 years Tottenham have been spineless, gutless, useless, disgraceful – that’s absolute rubbish.
“So now he’s got to dig up that his win percentage was one per cent better than mine at QPR.
“I took over a QPR team that had already played 14 games in the Premier league and they had two wins, so it wasn’t exactly taking over a world class team, you know?
“And at Birmingham I took over a team that had gone 25 games and only won one, that wasn’t easy."
Redknapp, who managed Spurs from 2008 to 2012, added:“My argument was about the Tottenham team I had, and I will not stand by and let someone come out with a statement like that when their facts are completely wrong.
“He could say, ‘Yeah, but you didn’t win anything. You got two fourth place finishes and the quarter-finals of the Champions League, but you didn’t win anything’.
“Well the present team have had four years [under Pochettino] and they haven’t won anything either, but does it make them a bad team? No it doesn’t. I love watching them and I love the manager.
“We all know Gary, he is an excellent pundit and was a great right-back, but he’s opinionated and sometimes he goes over the top.
“He hasn’t got his facts correct in this case and he should have thought a little bit more about what he was saying.
“Yet, he’s not man enough to say: ‘Yeah I was wrong, I’ll hold my hand up, that team Harry had was a good team’.
“But it was not about me managing, it was about the team I had and I want to tell him that wasn’t a gutless or spineless team.”
Redknapp then took a final swipe at Neville as he signed off from the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
He joked: “See you, lads. Now I’m going to hit some golf balls and I might put Gary’s head on one of them.”