Portsmouth Chief Executive Peter Storrie has reacted angrily to suggestions that Harry Redknapp is to leave the club at the end of this season. The story 'doing the rounds' is that Redknapp will be leaving for 'personal reasons'.

"It's a joke, total rubbish. You just wonder whether these people have an agenda because it's doing us no good. Harry is furious about this - we all are. It's a load of rubbish. We are about to play the FA Cup final and people are coming out with this. It's hardly helping things. We don't need this at this moment. People should not believe any of it, though, it's complete and utter nonsense. Where these silly stories come from I have no idea. They are nonsense, just nonsense. Harry is furious about this - we all are. It's a load of rubbish."

So, assuming that Peter Storrie is right and there is no truth in the rumour whatever, why on earth would someone in the media make this up?

There are twenty teams in the Premiership, two about to play in the FA Cup Final and two more about to contest the Champions League. Add to this the top leagues of La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga, and the other seventy-two teams in the football league and surely there are enough real football stories to go round!

I read Wayne Rooney's autobiography recently and he mentions a report he read in a Sunday paper that he and Alan Stubbs had been thrown out of a posh jewellers shop in West Londan when Everton had visited Chelsea. They had been thrown out because the owner didn't recognise them and just thought they were 'Scouse scallies'. Rooney says he enjoyed the story but he never went into any shops on that trip and certainly didn't get thrown out of any.

I think this type of completely made up tripe mascarading as 'journalism' should be stopped. I can only begin to imagine what it is like to see stories about yourself in the national press that are untrue in every possible way.

If Harry Redknapp has no plans to leave Portsmouth then how dare some newspaper hack write a story that he is.