Harry Redknapp says he has not yet made peace with Gary Neville over his “load of crap” comments about previous Tottenham teams.
The former Manchester United defender claimed that Spurs had been “spineless and soft, flaky, rubbish” for the past 30 years before Mauricio Pochettino took over.
And Redknapp, who was in charge of Tottenham for four years between 2008 and 2012, took a big exception to Neville’s comments by calling them an “absolute disgrace” at the time.
When asked by Jim White on talkSPORT if he had made his peace with Neville, Redknapp replied: “No, not really. No.
“I’ve not had a chat with him. I haven’t spoken to him, nope.
“I just thought what he said was a load of crap. I’m not going to sit back and let him say that.
“How can he say that about the last 30 years? I only know about the team I managed at Tottenham and that was a good team.
“We finished fourth, fourth and fifth and we had good players and played some great football.
“I had Gareth Bale, Luka Modric, Ledley King, players like that and I felt we could have pushed on and finished higher the following year.
“So to say they were rubbish teams, to label people as spineless and useless, I thought it was a disgrace to say that.
“Ledley King was getting off the treatment table and you’ve never seen a knee like it. His knee would be like a balloon all week and he’d come out and play on a Saturday. To call him spineless…
“Listen, Manchester United went to Southampton and got beat 6-3 one day when Fergie was manager- it happens in football.
“I thought we played fantastic football during that period. You look through that team I had, it was full of quality players with character. We had Scott Parker who was a great competitor, we had Crouchy, we had Rafa van der Vaart – it was a very, very good team and I was proud to manage them.”