Editing Jamie Redknapp (section)

==Club career==
===Summary===
Redknapp was born in [[Barton on Sea]], Hampshire and started his career by joining [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] as a youth player but turned down their offer of a professional contract, deciding to play for [[AFC Bournemouth]] under his father, manager [[Harry Redknapp]]. He went on to play for [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] where Redknapp would be remembered for his best performances. After that Redknapp returned and played {{frac|2|1|2}} seasons for [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] then finally joined [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]], where he played under his father for a second time. Redknapp was also capped 17 times by [[England national football team|England]], scoring one goal.

===AFC Bournemouth===
Redknapp started out on the road to professional football as a schoolboy at [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] but began his professional career, at the age of 16, in 1989 at Bournemouth, then managed by his father, Harry. He made 13 appearances for the club before attracting the attention of [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]], who signed him on 15 January 1991. [[Kenny Dalglish]] had paid £350,000 for Redknapp, who was still only 17 at the time. He was one of the most expensively signed teenagers in [[Football in England|English football]] around this time.

===Liverpool===
[[File:Jamie Redknapp 2009.jpg|250 px|thumb|Redknapp during Hillsborough Memorial Match (2009)]]
Redknapp was one of the last players to be signed by manager [[Kenny Dalglish]] before his surprising resignation on 22 February 1991 and later became the youngest Liverpool player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/past-players/jamie-redknapp |title=Past players: Jamie Redknapp |publisher=Liverpool F.C. |access-date=10 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014215905/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/past-players/jamie-redknapp |archive-date=14 October 2014}}</ref> to appear in European competition, at 18 years 120 days when making his Liverpool debut against [[AJ Auxerre|Auxerre]] in the [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]] on 23 October 1991, by which time Liverpool were being managed by [[Graeme Souness]]. This record was broken by [[Phil Charnock]] thirteen months later.<ref>[http://www.lfchistory.net/player_profile.asp?player_id=279 Profile] at LFCHistory.net</ref>

Redknapp's first goal for Liverpool came in his league debut on 7 December 1991 when he featured as a 63rd-minute substitute for [[Jan Mølby]] in a 1–1 draw with [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] at [[The Dell (Southampton)|the Dell]].

Following Dalglish's departure, Redknapp was part of a transitional Liverpool team under [[Graeme Souness]]. He spent most of his first {{frac|2|1|2}} years as a substitute or in the reserves, missing the [[1992 FA Cup final]] triumph and only becoming a regular first-team player in the [[1993–94 in English football|1993–94]] season, at the expense of [[Mark Walters]]. At this time, Redknapp had also become one of the mass-marketed poster boy icons of the newly developing [[Premier League]] where, alongside other photogenic young players like [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] players [[Ryan Giggs]] and [[Lee Sharpe]], he was used in commercials, advertising spots and for the league's promotional purposes in merchandising and sales, with the result being that football stars had become [[Celebrity|idols]] on par with [[rock music|rock star]]s and [[Pop icon|pop stars]],<ref>{{cite web |title=How football became the new rock'n'roll |url=http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/rockngoal/archive/2009/04/22/how-football-became-the-new-rock-n-roll.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227131530/http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/rockngoal/archive/2009/04/22/how-football-became-the-new-rock-n-roll.aspx |archive-date=27 February 2012 |publisher=fourfourtwo.com |access-date=2 July 2010 |date=22 April 2009}}</ref> by and around the mid to late 1990s.

Redknapp's contributions peaked during the [[1998–99 in English football|1998–99]] season as he created numerous chances and scored 10 goals under new boss [[Gérard Houllier]]. Redknapp became vice- and then full club captain by [[1999–2000 in English football|1999–2000]] following the departures of [[John Barnes]], [[Steve McManaman]] and [[Paul Ince]].

His contributions helped the club back into the top three of the Premier League but a knee injury curtailed his involvement in the [[2000–01 FA Premier League|2000–01]] season and in a bid to cure long-standing injury troubles he underwent knee surgery under renowned knee specialist Dr [[Richard Steadman]] in the United States. As a result, Redknapp was unable to participate in the whole of the club's cup treble campaign which yielded the [[FA Cup]], [[EFL Cup|League Cup]] and [[UEFA Europa League|UEFA Cup]]. Although injured, as the club captain he was called up by his teammates to receive the FA Cup with vice-captain [[Robbie Fowler]] at the [[Millennium Stadium]] in [[Cardiff]]. He made his comeback from injury during the pre-season tour before the [[2001–02 in English football|2001–02]] season.

Redknapp's return did not last long as he was again struck by injury. On 27 October 2001 he played and scored in a 2–0 win over [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]] at [[The Valley (London)|The Valley]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1620577.stm |title=Liverpool punish Charlton |publisher=BBC Sport |date=27 October 2001 |access-date=13 April 2010}}</ref> and then 3 days later he played what would prove to be his last game for the [[Merseyside]] club against [[Borussia Dortmund]] in the [[2001–02 UEFA Champions League|Champions League]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/liverpool-progress-smoothed-by-smicer-633293.html |title=Liverpool progress smoothed by Smicer |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=30 October 2001 |access-date=13 April 2010 |first=Phil |last=Shaw}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{Soccerbase season|6616|2001|name=Jamie Redknapp|access-date=10 August 2014}}</ref> He had played 308 times for the Reds and scored 41 goals, becoming a favourite amongst Liverpool fans, who included him at number 40 in the 2006 poll 100 Players Who Shook The Kop.<ref>[http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/100-pwstk-the-definitive-list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212082021/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/100-pwstk-the-definitive-list|date=12 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/100-pwstk-no-40-jamie-redknapp |title=100 PWSTK – No.40: Jamie Redknapp |first=Mark |last=Platt |publisher=Liverpool F.C. |date=9 August 2006 |access-date=10 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812224341/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/100-pwstk-no-40-jamie-redknapp |archive-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>

===Tottenham Hotspur===
Redknapp was allowed to join [[Glenn Hoddle]]'s [[Tottenham Hotspur F.C.|Tottenham Hotspur]] on a free transfer on 18 April 2002 with just a couple of fixtures remaining of the [[2001–02 in English football|2001–02 season]]. He made his debut at the beginning of the following campaign when he played on 17 August 2002 in the 2–2 league draw with his former club Liverpool's rival [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] at [[Goodison Park]]. Redknapp's pass into the path of [[Matthew Etherington]] allowed Etherington to score his first Premier League goal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Radzinski rescues Everton |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/2196568.stm |quote=Everton 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2 |publisher=BBC Sport |location=London |access-date=10 August 2014 |date=18 August 2002}}</ref>

Redknapp scored his first goal for the club a week later on 26 August 2002 in the 1–0 league win over [[Aston Villa F.C.|Aston Villa]] at [[White Hart Lane]]. Redknapp played 49 times for Spurs scoring 4 goals in his {{frac|2|1|2}} years with the club before becoming his father Harry's first signing for [[Southampton F.C.|Southampton]] on 4 January 2005.

===Southampton===
The 31-year-old joined Southampton's fight against relegation on a free transfer and made his debut on 5 January 2005 in the 3–3 league draw with [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] at [[St Mary's Stadium|St Mary's]]. Redknapp's only goal for the club came three days later in the 3–1 [[FA Cup]] 3rd round victory over [[Northampton Town F.C.|Northampton Town]] at [[Sixfields Stadium]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/4139441.stm |title=Northampton 1–3 Southampton |publisher=BBC Sport |date=8 January 2005 |access-date=31 December 2009}}</ref>

Redknapp was rarely fully fit during his brief spell at the Saints and was not able to prevent them from being relegated to the [[EFL Championship|Championship]] after 27 successive seasons of top flight football.

At the end of the season, on 19 June 2005, the 31-year-old Redknapp decided to retire from the game due to his constant injury problems and on the advice of his medical specialists.