Harry Redknapp claims Portsmouth star Kanu is 49 but still 'King'
Wednesday, April 18, 2012Omoba
But Redknapp’s tales of when he and the incredible Kanu were at
Pompey had an audience transfixed and rolling with laughter on Friday.
‘I took Kanu off the local park. He wasn’t playing, just training
on the park on his own - or so he said.
‘He did not have a club four days before that season started and I
didn’t have a second forward. I was sitting there thinking where he had gone
after being freed by West Brom. So I tracked him down, got him in and stuck him
on the bench.
‘He
would ring me every Sunday night at 11pm so he knew I was in bed. “Oh gaffer,
it’s Kanu here.
'Gaffer,
I have the upset tummy, I cannot train tomorrow. I will not be in tomorrow, I
do not feel well”.
‘Every
Sunday. But on the pitch ... first game, I stuck him on for the second half
against Blackburn, he got two great goals and missed a penalty for the
hat-trick. Monday we went to Middlesbrough, won 4-0 and Kanu got two more
goals. He ran from the halfway line for the second. What a goal!
Fan
of Kanu: Harry Redknapp
‘We
got back home to the airport and we were sitting while waiting for the baggage
to come. Suddenly he could not get up. His body had given up. We had to lift
him into one of those wheelchairs.
‘No
matter how the physios tried, his body would not straighten up. They lifted him
up into the chair and wheeled him out the airport! He had to leave his car
there and he could not drive. The physio had to drive him back. His
body had gone.
‘How
old is he? 49? I don’t know (officially, he’s 33). But when you think he played
at Inter Milan, won the Champions League with Ajax and he’d had a heart
problem. In training you’d pay to watch him some days. He could do things you’d
never seen. What a lovely guy as well.
‘Yet
when I took him, people at the club who worked with me went, “He’s finished,
Harry”. ‘I said, “No”. I took him and he did fantastic for me and he’s still
there now. King Kanu. He’s an amazing talent. Still.’
From
: dailymail
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