I can only assume that Harry Redknapp never drinks in a Portsmouth boozer.
He'd be appalled by some of the language.
Some of the locals, as I understand,... wait for it... use four letter words from time to time.
And I don't mean 'pint' or 'mild'.
You see, I'm not a great believer that Redknapp should have played the 'abused' card at the weekend.
There's no excuse for the mindless minority who sit and rage at opposition benches every Saturday.
I dare say it happens up and down the country to varying degrees.
But Redkapp reacted with a three (or possily two at first) fingered salute to those morons. The situation was ever more inflamed and he was left claiming 'filth' to the press.
But in my view, if you can't stand the heat.....go and sit in the directors box. Or the press box as Martin O'Neill did against Fulham recently.
One, I've never understood whay managers and coaches have to stand on the touchline anyway. Haven't they done all their homework through the week? What can they possibly do to change a game once it has kicked off?
And two, football fans are asked to pay criminally high charges for tickets, replica kits and everything else. They then have to turn up at 12.45pm, 5.15pm, 7.45pm, 8pm, or even worse at 12 noon or 1pm on a Sunday because of mainly TV, or police.
Away from home they are treated like cattle. At home they get little change out of a fiver for a programme and a paper cup of bovril.
As O'Neill has often said, once they buy their ticket they should be allowed to shout what they want.
And if a 5 year-old kid just happens to be sitting next to them, then just pray that the lad is from Wolverhampton. He'll have been brought up on such.