Redknapp says Chelsea hoodoo irrelevant

The two sides square up in the lunchtime Premier League kick off but Redknapp says past records are lost on his players.

“If I said to Benny Ekotto we have not won at Chelsea, he wouldn’t have a clue,” Redknapp explained. “He probably doesn’t even know we are playing Chelsea until we tell him later on. And that is genuine. He wouldn’t look at the fixtures. He would turn up and say: ‘What time is the coach tomorrow gaffer?’ And that is it. He will be here, but he wouldn’t be sure if we were going to Arsenal or Chelsea. We have got a lot of foreign players here now and they get on with it. The history of the clubs is probably lost on them in all honesty.”