Harry Redknapp recalled the moment that he thought he had killed his wife.
The couple, both 75, relived one of the "worst days of his life" in their new autobiography - When Harry Met Sandra. The football legend told how a quiet day shopping in Westbourne turned into a nightmare after a horror car accident saw Sandra's foot "sliced like a piece of bacon".
According to The Mirror, Harry had parked up the car and called out to Sandra, who had just got out of their 4 x 4 to head out to the shops when the ex football manager called for her watch out for traffic. Before she knew it, Harry had accidentally reversed into her and trapped her foot under the wheel.
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Sandra recalled screaming Harry's name as she banged on the car for help. She said: "I felt this huge pressure on my foot and I was suddenly being dragged down. 'Harry!!' I screamed. I started banging on the car. 'Harry!!' He had reversed over my ankle. I fell into the road as a bus was coming. I could just hear Harry panicking."
Harry didn't realise he was the one who had injured his wife and thought that another car had hit her. He said: "I really thought for a moment in time that I had lost her. She was lying in absolute agony on the floor.
"I looked down in horror at her foot, which looked like it had been sliced like a piece of bacon. There was blood everywhere. And it was all my fault."
Sandra's friend Joanne appeared and told a distressed Harry to not look at Sandra's foot as emergency services rushed to the scene. Sandra said: "The next thing I remember is sirens and being stretchered into the back of an ambulance. Harry was beside himself and in a panic, and it was breaking my heart to see him in such a state."
As the ambulance set off, Harry told Sandra: "I thought I lost you", as she was rushed to hospital for surgery. Sandra recalled how police even turned up to investigate the freak accident, with a devastated Harry profusely apologising to Sandra and the "good as gold" officers.
When Harry Met Sandra is out on Thursday (September 29), £20, published by Mirror Books
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