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Jamie Redknapp: No more pre-match handshakes

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In 2004, when the  pre-match handshake ritual was introduced in England, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said: ‘It’s not a handshake that says everybody loves everybody else.

'It’s a handshake that says, “Whatever c**p’s gone on before now and whatever c**p will go on after this game is over, for the next 90 minutes, let’s just play a game of football”.’

I’ve never understood it. What does it achieve?

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Recently, we’ve had clubs given permission not to shake hands because of bad feeling and players refusing to do it. TV advertising breaks are scheduled around the handshake, in case there is a story not to be missed.

How did it get to this?

Handshakes should be reserved for the captains and officials before the toss and as a spontaneous gesture when the contest is over. The rest of it is nonsense.

I agree with the theatre of two teams entering the field together — like gladiators entering the arena, ready for the battle ahead. Side by side, it adds to the sense of occasion.

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But the incendiary incidents that we have seen in the last two seasons mean the handshake is more of a story than the match. Liverpool versus Manchester United, Chelsea versus QPR, Chelsea versus Manchester United . . . will they or won’t they shake hands this season?

It has to be the same rule for everyone. We can’t have QPR and Chelsea being given special dispensation because of bad feeling, but everyone else has to get on with it. It causes embarrassment to players and to the game. Let’s stop it now before it causes any further embarrassment.

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