The pictures in the Daily Mail today confirm that he clearly isn't three stone overweight. Redknapp's comment was a throwaway line of the type he is famous for that has been jumped on...and also borne of years of frustration with the player, who has been guilty of it in the past.
That's really not a bad shout at all, he would lift the place.
The weird thing about Redknapp's outburst is that Taarabt is probably fitter then he has been for a couple of years. He certainly was a couple of stone overweight, but they don't tolerate that in Italy where he was last year and has...