Harry Redknapp was one of the first Premiership managers to throw his hat in the ring for the soon to be vacant England Managers job in 2012 and who could blame him. But does the search for Tottenham’s next manager also start here?

The England managers job is one of the most prestigious appointments in World football and there can be no greater honor for an Englishman to have the chance to manage his Country. Many would also argue that Harry Redknapp has earned his chance after guiding Spurs into the Champions League for the first time.

However the England job will not become vacant for another two years and surely Harry should be concentrating on the job at hand at Spurs rather than fueling the media-circus that will follow Fabio Capello’s decision to quit at the end of the European Championships.

If Harry really wants the England Managers job he should cement his credentials through his achievements at club level over the next two years. After all the job is only half done. He has this years Champions League Campaign to look forward to and the challenge of cementing Tottenham’s position amongst the elite of English football of the next couple of years.

However it seems that whenever you pick up a paper or listen to sport radio you hear a new sound-bite from Harry Redknapp. I’m sure Daniel Levy would prefer he spend more time on the training field and less time talking to the media. After all Harry is only a serious contender for the England job because his current employers gave him the opportunity to manage a club who can compete at the top end of the table, rather than working miracles at the other end.

The Spurs board will now be looking anxiously at developments over the coming months and should the media-circus following the appointment of the next England manager start to effect the performance and long term objectives of the club, they will surely also be considering their next appointment.

Harry is quite rightly a frontrunner for the England Managers job and a darling of the press because of the amount of inches he feeds them on a daily basis (column inches!). But to quote from the song-sheet of our snooker loopy forefathers once more – “with his incessant talking, he’s becoming a pest”.