Frank Lampard and Jamie Redknapp are cousins, however the pair weren’t at all times pleasant on the pitch, as Harry not too long ago recalled whereas showing on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa
Harry Redknapp informed the story to his campmates(Image: ITV)
Harry Redknapp has recalled how son Jamie was left needing 24 stitches after a brutal clash along with his nephew, Frank Lampard. The household feud started throughout a match between Liverpool and West Ham, who Harry was managing on the time.
Lampard – now a supervisor in his personal proper after guiding Coventry City to promotion to the Premier League – was an up-and-coming star at West Ham whereas Redknapp junior was halfway via his Liverpool profession. Although Harry did not specify the precise match which the incident occurred in, the cousins confronted one another twice at Anfield in 1999 throughout two completely different Premier League seasons.
Appearing on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa, the previous boss informed the story to a gaggle of fellow campmates together with ex-footballer Jimmy Bullard. “My goalkeeping coach Les Sealey, what a great character,” Harry started.
“He’s with me on the bench at Anfield. West Ham are playing Liverpool. After about 20 minutes, my son Jamie catches Frank Lampard, who’s my nephew, with a bad tackle.
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“Frank comes off. Sealey goes, ‘Frank, get again on and do him correct. He’s [taken] a liberty. Make positive you harm him’.
“I’m thinking, ‘This is my son he’s talking about’. I won’t lie, I swear. I’m thinking, ‘This ain’t right’. I can’t say nothing because I can’t say, “Oh no, you may’t harm him’.”
Lampard bought his personal again sooner or later, nonetheless, as Harry defined: “Anyway, he did not do him that day, Frank, however they went to Chelsea later within the season and Frank completed him [elbow gesture] and [Jamie] had 24 stitches. “Frank caught him with a beauty. They’re cousins, you know?”
Jamie’s story of how Lampard bought revenge is completely different, although. The former Liverpool star claims that each incidents got here within the 2000s, whereas Lampard was enjoying for Chelsea and Jamie was at Tottenham.
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In a 2019 interview alongside his dad, Jamie informed Chelsea TV: “I keep in mind enjoying towards Frank. I’d had somewhat little bit of a set to with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. The ball was form of between us and I assumed, ‘Right, there he’s, I’m gonna attempt to get him’.
“Went to go for him, left a bit on him, and it ended up being Frank. So, Frank wasn’t too proud of me and I keep in mind the next yr, we performed at White Hart Lane and I do know he did not imply it – nicely, he stated he did not – he bought me again. I bought a pleasant 20 stitches on my lip… He positively gave me considered one of them, you (Harry) know you that.”
Fortunately, there’s no bad blood between the two, who’ve gone to have contrasting careers since their respective retirements. While Lampard, 47, continues to follow in his uncle’s footsteps as a manager, Jamie has enjoyed a successful media career. The 52-year-old regularly appears as a pundit for Sky Sports and was previously a staff captain on A League of Their Own.
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