POMPEY manager Harry Redknapp has started legal action against the police force that arrested him during an investigation into football corruption.

The former Saints boss's multimillion-pound home in Sandbanks, Dorset, was the target of an early morning raid by City of London Police officers last November.

Mr Redknapp was furious at the raid, which happened when he wasn't in, and that photographers from a national newspaper had been tipped off in advance.

He said at the time he thought he had only been arrested because of his high profile, and has now started a judicial review action in London's High Courts of Justice against the force.

Judges sitting in the Administrative Court - which rules on the lawfulness of public bodies - will decide if the police's actions were fair.

Mr Redknapp was one of five people arrested at the time, along with Portsmouth FC's chief executive Peter Storrie and former chairman Milan Mandaric.

It is believed the development was part of an inquiry focussing on the 2003 transfer of midfielder Amdy Faye from Newcastle.

Mr Redknapp was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting, but later released on bail.

Last week Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan and managing director Karren Brady were arrested as part of the same corruption investigation.