Editing Harry Redknapp (section)

==Club career==
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===West Ham United===
During his playing career, Redknapp played as a midfielder. He began his career with Tottenham Hotspur, playing for the youth team until he was 15 years old, when he moved to West Ham United. He first broke into the first team at West Ham in the 1965–66 season, making seven appearances and scoring one goal. He made his debut for West Ham in a 1–1 draw at home to [[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] on 23 August 1965.<ref name="whustats">{{cite web |url=http://www.westhamstats.info/westham.php?west=2&ham=545&united=Harry_Redknapp |work=West Ham United Statistics |title=Harry Redknapp |access-date=25 March 2016}}</ref> His first goal came in a 4–1 away win over Tottenham on 8 April 1966.<ref name=whustats/>

Redknapp made his first start of the 1966–67 season, and scored his second goal for the club, on 3 December 1966 in a 3–0 win over [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]].<ref name=whustats/> Redknapp made 12 League appearances scoring once during his second season.<ref name=whustats/> During the 1967–68 season, he made 28 League appearances and scored twice, the first in a 4–2 home win over [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] on 21 August 1967 and the second in a 5–1 away win over Sunderland on 6 September 1967.<ref name=whustats/>

During the 1968–69 season, Redknapp made 42 appearances and scored three times, with 36 appearances coming in the league (along with two goals), three in the [[FA Cup]] appearances and three in the [[EFL Cup|League Cup]] (along with one goal). His first league goal of the season came in a 4–0 win over West Brom on 31 August 1968, while the next came in a match in the League Cup against [[Bolton Wanderers F.C.|Bolton Wanderers]], which West Ham won 4–0. Redknapp received a red card in a 2–0 away defeat at [[Leeds United F.C.|Leeds United]] on 12 October 1968.<ref name=whustats/> He had been booked for fouling [[Billy Bremner]] and was dismissed by the referee for dissent.<ref name="Roopanarine2011">{{cite book |author=Les Roopanarine |title=Harry Redknapp&nbsp;— The Biography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0WUkWwx38AC&pg=PT25 |date=7 November 2011 |publisher=John Blake Publishing |isbn=978-1-84358-942-6 |pages=25–}}</ref> His third goal of the season came in a 4–3 win over [[Queens Park Rangers F.C.|Queens Park Rangers]] on 2 November 1968.<ref name=whustats/>

Redknapp made his first appearance of the 1969–70 season on 9 August 1969 in a 1–0 home win over [[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]], while his first goal of the season came in a 3–0 home win over [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]] on 2 September 1969. Redknapp made 26 total appearances and scored one goal; 23 of his appearances came in the league.<ref name=whustats/>

During the 1970–71 season, Redknapp made 21 league appearances with one more coming in the League Cup.<ref name=whustats/> He then made a further 35 appearances during the 1971–72 season with 22 of them coming in the league. This would be his last season at the club before he moved to [[AFC Bournemouth]] for the 1972–73 season. He made 175 total appearances in both league and cup action for West Ham, scoring eight times over seven seasons.<ref name=whustats/>

===AFC Bournemouth===
Redknapp joined [[Football League Third Division|Division 3]] Bournemouth in 1972 from West Ham. He spent four seasons with the south coast side between 1972 and 1976.

In the 1972–73 season, Redknapp made 37 appearances with 34 of them coming in the league scoring once in the league and Bournemouth finished seventh in the league. He made a further 46 appearances scoring five times during the 1973–74 season with 39 appearances in the league.

Redknapp made 19 (all league) appearances during the 1974–75 season as Bournemouth were relegated to the [[Football League Fourth Division|Fourth Division]]. In 1975–76, he only managed nine appearances. At the end of the 1975–76 season, he moved to then [[Football League Fourth Division|Fourth Division]] side [[Brentford F.C.|Brentford]], where he made one appearance during the 1976–77 season.

===Seattle Sounders===
In 1976, Redknapp joined [[North American Soccer League (1968–1984)|North American Soccer League]] (NASL) club [[Seattle Sounders (1974–1983)|Seattle Sounders]] as a player-coach. He made 15 appearances during the 1976 season as they reached the playoffs after finishing second in the Pacific Conference, Western Division, before losing to the [[Minnesota Kicks]] in the Division Championship.<ref name=NASLJerseys>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasljerseys.com/Players/R/Redknapp.Harry.htm |title=NASL-Harry Redknapp |work=NASL Jerseys |access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref> Before returning to Seattle, he appeared briefly for AP Leamington in the Southern League Premier Division.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brakesweb.gingernut.net/era-ap/prog_harry.html |title=Harry Redknapp at the Brakes |work=BrakesWeb (Leamington Town FC Unofficial Football Club Site) |access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref><ref name=Leamington/> Redknapp then made five appearances during the 1977 season as they finished third in the Pacific Conference, Western Division, before losing out in [[Soccer Bowl '77]] to [[Pelé]]'s [[New York Cosmos (1971–1985)|New York Cosmos]], 2–1.

Redknapp went on to make three appearances in the 1978 season and just the one in the 1979 season, before joining up with old teammate and 1966 World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore.

In 1980, he was contracted to play with ASL expansion team the [[Phoenix Fire (soccer)|Phoenix Fire]], but the team folded in pre-season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://funwhileitlasted.net/2011/05/03/1980-phoenix-fire-soccer/|title=1980 Phoenix Fire • Fun While It Lasted|date=3 May 2011}}</ref>