# Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer

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- Book: [Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer](https://www.bookquiver.com/jamie-redknapp/me-family-and-the-making-of-a-footballer) ([Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jamie-redknapp/me-family-and-the-making-of-a-footballer.md))
- Authors: [Jamie Redknapp](https://www.bookquiver.com/jamie-redknapp)
- Publisher: headline
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7227-195-2
- Published: 2020-10-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

For the Redknapp clan, football is a family concern; it's the family business. Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer is a deeply moving, heartfelt and beautifully personal account of growing up as the second son of Harry Redknapp, and also an enchanting love letter to football. " I'm Jamie Redknapp. Chances are my surname rings a bell. I want to introduce you to a colourful cast of characters from my formative years. Growing up, Dad and grandad 'Pop' told us tall stories from London's East End, but there was no artistic licence needed when I was actually kicking a ball about with legends like George Best, Bobby Moore, and Geoff Hurst. This book is the story of my childhood and adolescence. Like many others, I guess it's a pretty typical mix of caravans and lollies, sweaty T-shirts and paper rounds, cheese sandwiches and Glacier Mints, The A Team, E. T. and Chinese takeaways. But this is also the story of a journey through an extraordinary childhood obsession with football. One minute it was all about Shoot! magazine, endless keepy-ups and countless impromptu kickabouts. The next, I'm playing for Bournemouth Reserves against terrifying, fully-grown men. Then I got my move to Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool. I might've been living off gristly sausages and Smash potato in my dingy digs up on Merseyside, but I was living the dream. I was desperately hoping it was the start of something special. Writing Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer has helped me discover so much about myself. This book is my way of explaining who and what have made me ... well, me."