The One Show's Alex Jones issues warning over Harry Redknapp's slip-up
Football manager Harry Redknapp was caught out on The One Show on Thursday evening (October 24) as Alex Jones questioned if Sandra was happy with him taking their footballer son Jamie to training with him. Hosts Alex Jones and Roman Kemp were joined by footballing father and son Harry and Jamie Redknapp, and actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Juno Temple.
Former Spurs and West Ham manager Harry Redknapp and Liverpool and Spurs player Jamie Redknapp appeared on the BBC show to promote their new book A Family Obsession which shares stories about their lives in football.
Conversion turned to Jamie Redknapp growing up with a dad as a football manager and how it impacted their lives. Jamie Redknapp revealed his dad would take him out of school to secretly go to football training and then slip back home in his school uniform.
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Roman Kemp asked: "Jamie, I'm kind of wondering, growing up, your dad is a football manager and he's obsessed with football. How much was he on top of you when it came to like, school homework?"
Jamie quickly quipped back in response: "Not too much, to be honest, mate. He used to always find that detour instead of going to school, taking me to training with him, but it didn't do me any harm, but I wouldn't advise it so if you're watching this at home, take your kids to school.
Harry Redknapp joked: "I mean, Jamie ended up not being able to read or write" as a laughing Jamie commented: "That's not true".
The King of the Jungle went on to explain: "We used to turn up the school gates. He said, 'Oh, Dad, I've got rubbish lessons today, can I come training with you? (I would say) 'Yeah alright', coming home at four o'clock so his mum thought he'd been to school.
Jamie interjected: "And put the school uniform back on! But the worst thing mum's watching this - we're giving it away!"
Presenter Alex Jones wondered if Harry's wife Sandra ever knew about Jamie skipping school for football and asked: "I was gonna say I mean your wife Sandra could not been happy with that, was she?"
Harry replied: "Well she didn't really know too much. To be honest at 11, you were training at Tottenham at a very early age, and so it was always football was where he was going to end up."
These days training outside of school paid off as Jamie Redknapp went on to have a respectable football career across the 1990s and 2000s, with appearances for AFC Bournemouth, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton. The Sky football pundit's performances in Merseyside saw him appear 17 times for England, including at Euro 96.
Harry Redknapp meanwhile went on to manage the likes of AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City over a 44-year management career.
