In a career that was blighted by a succession of injuries, Redknapp was as famous for his media profile off the field as much as on it. Redknapp comes from a well-known footballing family. His father, Harry Redknapp, is the manager of Tottenham Hotspur. Redknapp started out on the road to professional football as a schoolboy at Tottenham Hotspur but began his professional career, at the age of 16, in 1989 at Bournemouth, then managed by his father, Harry.
