Redknapp: I'm seen as a barrow-boy

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The 60-year-old was arrested on Wednesday by City of London police as part of their investigation into allegations of corruption in football. The other men arrested were Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie, former Pompey chairman Milan Mandaric, former Portsmouth player Amdy Faye and agent Willie McKay.

"Because I have a Cockney accent I'm perceived as some sort of barrow-boy," he told the Mail On Sunday. "Sure I've bought and sold a lot of players. But that's because every team I've taken over hasn't been very good."

He added: "I couldn't tell you the wages of any of my players, as I have nothing to do with the money side of the club.

"I know people will be thinking 'Harry always says it's nothing to do with him'. But it is nothing to do with me."

Redknapp had been at Rangers' Champions League game away to Stuttgart on Tuesday night, meaning his wife Sandra was at their Dorset home alone when the police raided the property.

"At first Sandra thought I must have been in a plane crash," he added. "But then they went inside and turned our house upside down. They went through everything."

He said the raid has made his wife ill and he was now worrying about her health.

Redknapp also revealed he had rejected an offer last year from a "miles bigger" club, believed to be Newcastle.

"I turned down a job last year for miles more money, at a club who, it is not disrespectful to say, are miles bigger than Portsmouth," he said. "To be honest, £10,000 a week extra, or £15,000 a week, ain't going to change my life. I know that sounds wrong - I know that by anyone's standards that's a fortune. But what I'm saying is money isn't everything."