{"id":511737,"date":"2026-03-08T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511737\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:19:08","slug":"daniel-levy-joe-lewis-accused-of-interfering-with-tottenham-team-selections-as-ex-spurs-manager-makes-sensational-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511737\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Levy &#038; Joe Lewis accused of &#8216;interfering&#8217; with Tottenham team selections as ex-Spurs manager makes sensational claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Redknapp recalled a specific incident before a clash with Manchester United in 2010. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/football\/article\/harry-redknapp-cheltenham-the-jukebox-man-0k36w2dtv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Times<\/a>, he recalled: &#8220;I\u2019ve never told anybody this, at least I don\u2019t think so. But you want to know what really happened to me at Tottenham? We played Man United at Old Trafford, October 2010, we were flying in the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m on my way to Stansted Airport to fly up to Manchester and I get a phone call from Daniel. Now, Daniel never rung me on a Friday, never interfered with the team. Daniel said, \u2018Hello, Harry. It\u2019s Daniel.\u2019 \u2018Hello, Daniel,\u2019 I said&#8230; \u2018Who are you gonna play up front tomorrow?\u2019 I said, \u2018Robbie Keane.\u2019 He said, \u2018Robbie Keane?\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, Robbie Keane.\u2019 Then he said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you speak with Rafael van der Vaart about who he wants to play with?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, \u2018What\u2019s it got to do Rafael van der Vaart, Daniel? I pick the team, not Rafael van der Vaart.\u2019 He said, \u2018Well, I thought it\u2019d be interesting to see what Rafa thought, you know.\u2019 \u2018No, not really,\u2019 I said, \u2018Robbie Keane\u2019s playing.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Redknapp recalled a specific incident before a clash with Manchester United in 2010. In an interview with The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[232087,1084,403,99,8258],"class_list":["post-511737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-h-redknapp","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}