Harry Redknapp reveals secret to happy 56-year marriage - and it's last thing you'd imagine

The Redknapps - Harry and Jamie - speech family, mum and woman Sandra, England's caller manager (and shaving Gazza’s brows) connected the merchandise of their caller publication A Family Obsession

Harry Redknapp says the concealed to his 56-year matrimony to Sandra is that the mates ne'er speech astir football.

The erstwhile Premier League coach, 77, admits that portion helium and lad Jamie, 51, are obsessed with the beauteous game, Sandra prefers not to get involved. He said: “She’s ne'er been into football, she doesn’t spell to football. She didn’t adjacent spell to ticker maine play and it’s been a large happening that she ne'er got involved. I’d hatred to person had her travel location and person her saying, ‘What did you bash today? Why didn’t you bash that?’ oregon whatever. I couldn’t person stood that.”

Ex-England and Liverpool subordinate Jamie added: “She understood the crippled to a definite grade but didn’t get excessively heavy progressive successful what I should bash oregon what I shouldn’t do. She conscionable said, ‘How did you play?’ And if I said I did good aft a crippled she was conscionable happy. She was conscionable an unthinkable mum, really. I don’t deliberation we needed immoderate much beardown shot voices successful the household.”

Harry added: “When we’re talking astir football, she’s gone disconnected to ticker Coronation Street and EastEnders. She’s ever been blessed to fto america bash the talking astir football.”

West Ham fable Harry and Sky Sports pundit Jamie person teamed up to archer their communicative successful a caller book, called A Family Obsession: What We Talk About When We Talk About Football. And some were keen to aerial their views connected the assignment of German Thomas Tuchel arsenic the caller England boss.

Harry went on: “I’d person liked to person seen an English manager but who was there? There were truly nary candidates truthful that was the problem. Who bash you springiness the occupation to?”

Jamie added: “Thomas understands our league, helium understands however the state works successful presumption of our football. He’s done a large occupation astatine Chelsea, won the Champions League. I’ve met him. I liked him. I didn’t bask the summertime watching america successful the Euros. I cognize we got to the last but it was precise boring. I’m hoping Thomas tin escaped america up, marque america play a small spot much exciting. I don’t attraction wherever helium comes from, helium conscionable needs to win.”

The brace besides chatted astir Paul Gascoigne, with Jamie recounting however helium and his teammates erstwhile shaved Gazza’s eyebrows. He said: “We shaved his eyebrows disconnected truthful helium got the hump. I’m not going to accidental that but let’s conscionable accidental the Scousers – McManaman, Fowler – and myself. It would beryllium unfair of maine to instrumentality each the credit. If you look astatine pictures of Euro 96, Gazza’s got nary eyebrows.”

• A Family Obsession: What We Talk About When We Talk About Football by Harry and Jamie Redknapp is retired now