Harry Redknapp is free to head back to his Dorset home and enjoy dinner with his wife, free to take training at Tottenham for the first time in two-and-a-half weeks . . . and free to become the next England manager should the FA choose to pursue him.

After spending just five hours deliberating, the jury at Southwark Crown Court cleared Redknapp and Milan Mandaric of all the charges of tax evasion on Wednesday.

The multi-millionaire former Portsmouth chairman had not tried to cheat the public purse of £15,473 when he made that first payment into the then Portsmouth manager’s Monaco bank account — just as Redknapp, at that time earning almost £2million a year, had not tried to save himself £30,723 in income tax

Outside court: Harry Redknapp addresses the media after being found not guilty of tax evasion

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