Redknapp speaks of Madrid mugging

Spurs boss Harry Redknapp has spoken of his mugging while on a trip to watch a Copa del Rey quarter-final between Real and Atletico Madrid.

The 63-year-old was in the Spanish capital on Thursday, and revealed afterwards that two men fell at his feet and pulled at his trousers to distract him while another four emptied his pockets.

Redknapp said he had been at the match with his assistant Kevin Bond to have a look at potential transfer target Diego Forlan, and they were walking outside the Estadio Vicente Calderon when the incident occurred.

“I’m walking round the outside of the stadium, it’s a fantastic atmosphere, there’s all little stalls there selling sweets,” Redknapp said.

“I got some sweets, me and Kevin, and it was so packed. The next thing there’s two guys on their knees in front of me and I felt someone pull my overcoat.”

“I thought ‘what are you doing?’. The next thing he’s got my keys on the floor.”

“I thought ‘is he a blind man or someone having trouble walking properly? What are they doing, these two blokes?'”

“I’m going ‘let go of my trousers’, pushing them away. While I’m doing that they’re rifling my pockets, there were about six of them. And then they went.”

“I thought ‘what are they doing?’ I went to put my hand in my pockets and realised what they’d done.”

“They took everything. All my money, credit cards, everything really.”

“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’.”