FOOTBALL boss Harry Redknapp denied tax dodging by telling police: “I couldn’t even fill a team sheet in”, a court heard.

The national newspaper columnist said he struggles with literacy, adding: “I write like a two-year-old and I can’t spell.”

He also claimed he was ‘the most disorganised person in the world’ during interviews with City of London detectives in 2009.

Redknapp told officers he had not seen his pay slip in years as he said: “You talk to anybody at the football club. I don’t write. I couldn’t even fill a team sheet in.”

Under questioning over the Monaco account at the heart of the £189,000 ‘bung’ allegation, the Tottenham manager added: “I pay a fortune to my accountant to look after me. He writes all the cheques for me and my wife.”

The tape was played out after jurors heard Redknapp made ‘disastrous’ business decisions and lost £250,000 in a ‘very unsuccessful’ takeover bid at Oxford United.

Both Redknapp, 64, of Sandbanks in Poole, and Mandaric, from Oadby, Leicestershire, deny two counts of cheating the public revenue when Redknapp was manager of Portsmouth Football Club.

The case continues.