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In the cabs of white vans and on playground benches, down the corridors of power - even, apparently, at Prince William's base in the Falklands, one name echoes. The next England manager should be Tottenham manager, Harry Redknapp. Our manager.

On Twitter, Rio Ferdinand observed: "I think we need an English manager now, we don't need anything else lost in translation... Harry Redknapp would be my choice from a distance." Wayne Rooney opined: "Harry Redknapp
for me."

David Cameron refrained from saying so - "the day when the Prime Minister picks the England coach will be a very bad day for football" - but he may as well have backed the lovable cockney in the quilted anorak.

And the case for Redknapp seems overwhelming. In keeping with FA policy, he is the opposite of his predecessor. No Eurocrat, he is a working-class hero who has stuck it to the taxman; he has a dog called Rosie; and English is his first language.

He can't read, apparently, but details, details -the point is he is a natural communicator. All the same, there are some of us - you might call us the one per cent - who would favour anyone else. Roy Hodgson? Martin O'Neill? Christian Gross? Cause it's working out for once at White Hart Lane, and we're not giving him up without a fight.

He has taken Tottenham Hotspur to third in the league, 10 points ahead of Arsenal, playing the sort of attacking football we have dreamed of for years. I said just now we won't give him up without a fight.

What I mean is that we are resigned to losing him. (We are Spurs fans; if we're 3-0 up at half time, we expect to lose 5-3). Then again, if there's one team more consistently disappointing, it's England.