Harry Redknapp recalls Frank Lampard leaving son Jamie needing 24 stitches after brutal clash
Frank Lampard and Jamie Redknapp are cousins, but the pair weren’t always friendly on the pitch, as Harry recently recalled while appearing on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa
Harry Redknapp told the story to his campmates(Image: ITV)
Harry Redknapp has recalled how son Jamie was left needing 24 stitches after a brutal clash with his nephew, Frank Lampard. The family feud began during a match between Liverpool and West Ham, who Harry was managing at the time.
Lampard – now a manager in his own right after guiding Coventry City to promotion to the Premier League – was an up-and-coming star at West Ham while Redknapp junior was midway through his Liverpool career. Although Harry didn’t specify the exact match which the incident took place in, the cousins faced each other twice at Anfield in 1999 across two different Premier League seasons.
Appearing on I’m A Celebrity… South Africa, the former boss told the story to a group of fellow campmates including ex-footballer Jimmy Bullard. “My goalkeeping coach Les Sealey, what a great character,” Harry began.
“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 back on and do him proper. He’s [taken] a liberty. Make sure you hurt 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 can’t hurt him’.”
Lampard got his own back in the future, however, as Harry explained: “Anyway, he didn’t do him that day, Frank, but they went to Chelsea later in the season and Frank done 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 got revenge is different, though. The former Liverpool star claims that both incidents came in the 2000s, while Lampard was playing for Chelsea and Jamie was at Tottenham.
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Frank Lampard later elbowed Jamie Redknapp(Image: Chelsea TV)
Jamie Redknapp needed more than 20 stitches(Image: Clive Rose/Getty Images)
In a 2019 interview alongside his dad, Jamie told Chelsea TV: “I remember playing against Frank. I’d had a little bit of a set to with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. The ball was sort of between us and I thought, ‘Right, there he is, I’m gonna try and get him’.
“Went to go for him, left a bit on him, and it ended up being Frank. So, Frank wasn’t too happy with me and I remember the following year, we played at White Hart Lane and I know he didn’t mean it – well, he said he didn’t – he got me back. I got a nice 20 stitches on my lip… He definitely gave me 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 formerly a team captain on A League of Their Own.
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