While I always rated Harry Redknapp as West Ham manager, I have to admit I wasn't really paying that much attention to his sound bites. However, every time he opens his mouth on a Saints related matter, it's to put his foot firmly in there.
Despite an apparent warning from Rupert Lowe to tone down some of his comments, Redknapp has been unable to stop ranting.
In today's installment Harry, flush with the success of failing to manage his team to survival, moaned about any interference from anyone else in job. Quite right too, as it's all been going so well thus far. After all, how could we bear watching a fit Saints side, knowing they won't wheeze their way into conceding late goals. It just wouldn't be the same for us.
With Sir Clive Woodward being announced as Technical Director (or Teaboy if the Lions tour gets much worse), Harry was keen to suggest that the egg chaser will be spending as little time as possible with the first team squad. This is clearly short sighted of Redknapp as Sir Clive has much experience of leading ridiculously huge squads to abject failure.
Of course there's a lot more to being a manager than that. It's quite a leap from motivating a bloke playing rugby and one playing football apparently. After all, when was the last time Woodward slagged off his own squad or built up the opposition? The lad will have to start from the bottom.
"He won't be involved with the team day to day," said Harry marking the territory round his desk with urine.
"That's my job and when that changes I leave. People think I left Portsmouth because of Zajec but Clive is not Zajec.
"I left Fratton Park because I was fed up and had enough. Luckily I can do that."
"I can still do it at Southampton if things are not to my liking and I would even if I was skint, because that's the way I am."
In threatening to take his toys home, Redknapp has definitely picked the wrong club. I'm so used to a new manager every season, that one more won't make much difference.
After all, if Redknapp goes, Lowe can then promote from within yet again and unveil Wise or Woodward. Which may well be the plan anyway. With no chance of new signings if Crouch stays, backroom reshuffles might be as exciting as it gets this summer.
"I'm sure we can make a lot of use of him at Southampton," said Redknapp putting an order in for a new kettle for Woodward to use in his new duties.
"We've seen already how Sam Allardyce has drawn benefit from the input of scientific programming, a lot of which came from rugby. In an organisational sense, team-bonding and medically, he will have a lot to offer already."
Strange then that, with all of these skills, Harry is adamant that Woodward won't actually get to use them where it matters.