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Harry Redknapp was 'beside himself' after he accidentally injured wife Sandra.
The former Premier League manager, 77, has had the support of his other half since the age of 17 when the teenage sweethearts fell in love. Sandra has been by his side through managerial sackings, a tax probe and a horrific minibus crash that killed a friend - all without a single argument.
Harry says the couple have 'never had a row' in more than five decades of marriage, which is a pretty remarkable achievement. She wasn't even annoyed at him for accidentally running over her foot in 2016 in what he described as a 'freak accident'.
Harry accidentally ran over Sandra's foot in 2016 and feared she was going to lose a limb (Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)Witnesses described how she screamed with agony as she was pulled along by Harry's motor in the bizarre incident in Bournemouth. Her coat had become stuck in the door while her foot was still in the footwell of the four-by-four. One witness told The Sun at the time: "There was a lot of blood on the tarmac and Harry was beside himself."
An ambulance rushed Sandra to hospital where worried Harry stayed by his wife's side before she went into surgery. In 2019, Harry admitted: "We have honestly never had a row and she didn't blame me for turning her ankle into what looked like a slice of bacon. It was my fault entirely as I wasn't concentrating.
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"She had to have skin grafts after half of her ankle was left in the road but you couldn't have a row with my missus if you tried. She's so placid. I don't know what I'd do without her. She's my electrician, my chef, my handyman, my chippie and a good Samaritan to everyone."
The lovable ex-Spurs and West Ham manager feared his wife was going to lose her foot. Admitting it could have been a lot worse, Harry claimed her ankle "looked like a shark had taken a bite". He told BBC News: "It was just a freak accident you know.
"Sandra went across the road and, unfortunately, she had gone behind the car to cross over the road and as I went to drive off I caught her. I drove over her ankle basically, if the full weight of the car had gone over the ankle god knows what would have happened to her ankle and her foot."
He added: "We've never had a row. Ever. After all these years, we've never had a minute's problem between us. And that's true. That's not bulls***. If I get the hump, she'll just say, 'Look at you Harry, look at you, just calm down' and I do."
Harry and Sandra have been together for 60 years and he says he 'won the lottery' marrying her (Instagram)Sweetly, Sandra is the only person that Harry has ever written a card to - and now she does all his writing for him. Despite the soccer dynasty, Harry previously insisted that Sandra and her late sister Pat, who was married to Frank Lampard senior, were no WAGs.
"Sandra listens to all the games on the radio or on TV but she doesn't often come to football," explained Harry. "WAGs didn't exist back then. Besides, they both worked at a hairdresser in Barking on Saturdays anyway... I've just been so lucky. Jamie always says I won the lottery marrying [Sandra], and he's dead right, I did."
While having had his pick of showbiz pals over the years, the only person Harry has ever wanted or needed is his wife. "I'm not really bothered about friends. I've got my family. But most of all, I've got Sandra and that's all that matters," he said.
After winning I'm A Celebrity in 2018, Sandra noticed the increase in attention her husband started to attract from the opposite sex, but she knows he will never leave her. Harry told the Mirror: "Sandra knows no one's that stupid to want to run off with me and I haven't been chucked any knickers or been handed any phone numbers or anything.
"No, no, no, definitely none of that stuff. I'm happily married. I'm not stupid. I know when I'm well off. If I'd married an ugly old bird, sitting there with her rollers in, or someone I didn't stop arguing with for 10 years, I might've been different. I might've ended up getting a divorce; but I married a super fit bird, I get on great with."