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Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has made sure
there won't be any dressing room bust-ups over the club Christmas
party by banning his players from organising a festive knees-up.
And Redknapp believes that such social occasions are a recipe for
disaster.
"Don't have one – that's the only advice I have. I don't see the
point because they're nothing but aggravation for everybody," he
told reporters at his Friday press conference.
"Everyone's waiting for you to trip up, go out and get
drunk or act silly. You don't need that.
"It's a long season and at the end of that, if we are successful
and achieve something at Tottenham, they can go and have a party.
They can go and enjoy their break in the summer.
"This is a busy period, a working period. Why should we have
Christmas parties? Every year there's aggro at every football club
that has one."
Redknapp is not even expecting club captain Robbie Keane to ask
about a party.
"I don't think they'd take the liberty to have one without asking
first. If they tell me they're having a Christmas party I'll tell
them they're not having one," he said.
"I want to see them enjoy themselves but not at this time of
year. They've got nothing to celebrate.
"They have to maintain their fitness and be prepared for a tough
program coming up – one thing they don't need is to get a load of
booze down their neck."
Reports surfaced earlier today that Redknapp had clashed with
David Bentley during a Spurs friendly in midweek. The Tottenham
boss played down rumors of a row though.
"It wasn't a real bust-up, nothing that would compare with what
we are talking about at the other clubs this week," he
explained.
"I wasn't happy with his performance in the first half of a game
and that was it.
"There was no blazing row. I just felt he could have done better
than he was doing. It was very mild. I was supposed to have said I
will sell him in January. That's absolutely rubbish."
Meanwhile, Spurs welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers to White Hart
Lane at the weekend boosted by the news that Luka Modric returns to
the squad.
The Croat has been out of action since August with a broken
fibula.
However, Spurs will be without Ledley King and Jonathan
Woodgate.
"Luka came through a friendly game and was fine. It's a bit
early to start him but he'll be involved," Redknapp added.
"Ledley jarred his knee again. It's blown up and swollen up quite
badly.
"It was looking great, he'd worked hard for three weeks. He was
just short of a game, unfortunately it was a freak accident – the
ball hit him in the face and his knee jarred.
"Hopefully he shouldn't be too long. Woodgate the same."
