Harry Redknapp sends message to Tottenham: we need summer spending to challenge next year It is a nailbiting end to what has been a rollercoaster season for Spurs and Redknapp, who was cleared of tax evasion in February and made favourite for the England job before it went last week to Roy Hodgson. He said: "I'll be glad when next week is over. It's been a long old season. I just want to get in the Champions League and have a break and get away for a few days. It has been a hard year for me personally. What I went through with the court case was the most difficult thing I've ever faced in my life. It definitely takes a strain on you. I do tend to get on with things but there's no doubt it has an effect. Redknapp reiterated he bore no grudges over the Football Association's decision to overlook him for the England job. "It was no hassle to me at all," he said. It never really bothered me. When I heard that Roy had got the job on Sunday night, I went out. I didn't go out feeling, 'Oh my God'. I woke up the next morning and I was quite relieved in a way that I didn't have a decision to make.