Redknapp uses power of television

Harry Redknapp showed his squad a six-minute video of previous Tottenham triumphs as a motivational tool ahead of today’s Carling Cup final against Manchester United at Wembley.

The Tottenham manager, staying in the same hotel room as he did before last season’s FA Cup triumph with Portsmouth, revealed the club’s video technicians had put together a movie of some of the club’s greatest cup triumphs from the ’60s onwards.

Redknapp told the BBC: “We’ll have a chat obviously. But we have got a little bit of motivational video that I like to show the lads.

“It involves some of the Spurs teams over the years winning cups and how great it was. We will show that with a bit of music to it and show how this particular team has scored some of the goals on the way to the final.

“It is all part of the deal. Our people have put it together, it is only about six minutes, but it is good.”