Harry Redknapp confessed helium took his lad Jamie retired of schoolhouse to play shot connected The One Show - but fto gaffe his woman Sandra didn't know. Footballing begetter and lad duo Harry and Jamie Redknapp, joined hosts Alex Jones and Roman Kemp alongside stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Juno Temple.
The erstwhile Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham boss, on with his son, ex-Liverpool and Spurs midfielder Jamie, were connected the BBC programme to chat astir their latest publication A Family Obsession which focuses into the Redknapps' beingness successful football.
The speech soon turned to Jamie's puerility experiences with a football-obsessed dada astatine the helm and however it shaped their household dynamics. Jamie fto gaffe that Harry would often sneak him retired of schoolhouse for shot grooming sessions if helium had a boring time of lessons.
Wales Online reports however presenter Roman Kemp asked the Sky Sports pundit: "Jamie, I'm benignant of wondering, increasing up, your dada is simply a shot manager and he's obsessed with football. How overmuch was helium connected apical of you erstwhile it came to like, schoolhouse homework?".
Jamie quipped: "Not excessively much, to beryllium honest, mate. He utilized to ever find that detour alternatively of going to school, taking maine to grooming with him, but it didn't bash maine immoderate harm, but I wouldn't counsel it truthful if you're watching this astatine home, instrumentality your kids to school."
Harry joked: "I mean, Jamie ended up not being capable to work oregon write" prompting Jamie to laughter disconnected the quip with a playful, "That's not 'true'".
The King of the Jungle elaborated: "We utilized to crook up the schoolhouse gates. He said, 'Oh, Dad, I've got rubbish lessons today, tin I travel grooming with you? (I would say) 'Yeah alright', coming location astatine 4 o'clock truthful his mum thought he'd been to school.
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BBC)Jamie added: "And enactment the schoolhouse azygous backmost on! But the worst happening mom's watching this - we're giving it away!"
Host Alex Jones questioned if Harry's woman Sandra was ever alert of Jamie skipping schoolhouse for shot and asked: "I was gonna accidental I mean your woman Sandra could not been blessed with that, was she?"
Harry responded: "Well she didn't truly cognize excessively much. To beryllium honorable astatine 11, you were grooming astatine Tottenham astatine a precise aboriginal age, and truthful it was ever shot was wherever helium was going to extremity up."
These days grooming extracurricular of schoolhouse paid disconnected arsenic Jamie Redknapp went connected to person a respectable shot vocation crossed the 1990s and 2000s, with appearances for AFC Bournemouth, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton. The Sky shot pundit's performances successful Merseyside saw him look 17 times for England, including astatine Euro 96.
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BBC)Harry Redknapp meantime went connected to negociate the likes of AFC Bournemouth, West Ham United, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers and Birmingham City implicit a 44-year absorption career.