Following Fabio Capello’s resignation as England manager as a result of him actually possessing a thing called “principles” the clamour is now for Harry Redknapp to take over the job.

“Come on Harry! Your Country needs you!”

Is this the same country that yesterday had him in the dock on tax evasion charges? The same country that has dragged his name through the mud over the last four or five years as they sought to destroy his reputation by making out that he has been “cheating the public purse”? The same country that spent something in the region of £8million on a case over possibly tens of thousands of pounds in possibly unpaid tax suggesting that it was more vindictiveness rather than a desire to see the books balanced.

At almost 65 years of age, the rather less demanding England job might seem like a dream last job for Harry Redknapp and he has never ruled himself out down the years when he has been the manager of the lesser clubs only to be rebuffed as the FA preferred more glamorous foreign managers.

Now, after years and years of English failure, Harry Redknapp is suddenly the most wanted man for the job. Now that he is the manager of a “big club” and doing exceptionally well there with Champions League football once again beckoning for Tottenham next season.

The “problem” with Harry Redknapp is that he has always struck me as a thoroughly decent bloke. The kind of bloke who might fall out with people from time to time but cannot hold a grudge for too long.

He left Portsmouth in fairly acrimonious circumstances after a fall-out with Milan Mandaric but yesterday the two men were said to have hugged each other as the Not Guilty verdict was announced – I suggest that this tells its own story as to the kind of person Harry Redknapp is.

After what he has been put through over the last few years, he may not be in the mood to “serve his country” right now but, given time, he may well let bygones be bygones and be tempted to go for the job as this offer (and one will surely be forthcoming) could well be his last – he isn’t getting any younger.

I’d love to see Harry Redknapp installed as the English manager – I would have loved to see him given the job ten years ago – he is definitely the man to get our severely under-performing national team performing in a way that would make us proud of them once again but I would also love to see him stick two fingers up at the FA and stay at Tottenham.

He’s too good for England.