The articles that i found are mainly from the Liverpool site, the official Liverpool magazine and Anfield confidental and you can have an idea of Jamie's newest life.

Wedding bells for Jamie

   Midfield star Jamie Redknapp is to marry pop superstar Louise Nurding.
Redknapp,24,proposed to Louise in June and,although no date has yet been set for the wedding,Redknapp said:"I haven't even got as far as buying the ring yet but we are both thrilled."                                                                                                 
   And Louise added:"We were talking about getting engaged a couple of weeks before Jamie proposed.There was no big gesture as such.Jamie didn't get down on one knee.We'll save that for when we actually set a date to marry.
   "The engagement says that we are very much a couple and that we want to spend the rest of our lives together.Jamie is my best mate and definitely the man of my dreams."
 

Jamie's woe!

   One player who didn't get to join in the pre-season training was the unfortunate Jamie Redknapp,who has been sidelined with a serious injury.
   The injury was sustained playing for England against South Africa at Old Trafford and is the third serious injury Jamie's suffered while playing for his country.As Jamie himself stated:"I'm cursed playing for England!"
   X-rays revealed a broken bone suffered during a tackle with Phil Masinga that could see Redknapp out of action for up to six months.

Battling Jamie has his eyes on the world

   ENGLAND trio Steve McManaman,Robbie Fowler and Jamie Redknapp had a summer free from football, but they would have given anything to have been in the thick of the international action.
   Injuries prevented them from playing any part in the four-nation French tournament during June.
   England's success without them may have changed the pecking order as coach Glenn Hoddle goes about assembling his squad for the World Cup next year remains to be seen.
   Jamie injuried his ankle playing for England in a friendly match against South Africa at the end of May,an injury which is likely to sideline him until Christmas.
   Jamie,who is not expected to be fit for top-class action until the end of the year says ruefully:"I've had a lot of bad luck with injuries while playing for England and I'd like to think this is the last of them. It's exactly the same injury that I had last season and I was devastated when told that I would be sidelined for so long.
   "I was just beginning to get back to my best form and I was looking forward to a sustained run in the England side, but unfortunately it just wasn't to be this time.
   "I have a lot of years ahead of me in the game yet though and I'm always trying to look on the bright side. Of course, I've thought about playing in the World Cup next year. That's the dream of every player in the country and I'm no different.
   "But first I have to first get my fitness back and work my way back into the Liverpool side. That's going to be a tough enough battle anyway, even before I start thinking about England again."
   Gleen Hoddle has admitted that he wanted to use Jamie in the sweeper's position at some point in Le Tournoi, the summer international tournament,staged in France and won by England.

Jamie makes comeback

   Jamie Redknapp has completed his first full game since breaking his leg playing for England last May.
  The midfield star was one of three Liverpool injury victims who took part in a specially-arranged practice match at the Merseysiders' Mellwood training ground against Crewe reserves on Wednesday afternoon. The other two, Neil Ruddock and £3.5million newcomer Ovyind Leonhardsen, also came through the run-out unscathed.
   Redknapp, who broke his leg in the England game at Old Trafford against South Africa, is considered to be several weeks ahead of his recovery schedule, providing a major boost for England boss Glenn Hoddle.
   Crewe won the match 1-0 courtesy of a goal from Steve Garvey but the Liverpool trio's return was a major boost too for boss Roy Evans after the previous night's UEFA Cup success over Celtic. Defender Ruddock said: "We're all smiles. We have all come through 90 minutes unscathed. "We treated it like a training session, and when I went into my first tackle my right knee was fine. I just grew in confidence after that. There were no problems for any of us."

Jamie's new Kop dream

   THE result was unimportant.
   Wednesday's behind-closed-doors friendly against Crewe reserves at least gave Jamie Redknapp, Neil Ruddock and Oyvind Leonhardsen some long-awaited and much-needed match practice. And for Redknapp,it was particularly pleasing.
   Pay no attention to Crewe's 1-0 Melwood triumph in this specially-arranged fixture. What mattered was Jamie taking the first steps on the road to recovery after breaking his ankle on international duty at the end of last season.
   Soon he'll be ready for the capital challenge of forcing his way into the Liverpool first team and re-kindling his Anfield dream.
   "I'd love to play alongside Paul Ince," Redknapp said."He's a great player - there's no doubt about that. I think we aredifferent sort of players.
  " Maybe we could complement each other well.I hope we will!" Redknapp, like Ruddock and Leonhardsen, lasted the 90 midweek minutes . And, through two reserve fixtures next week, he intends hammering home powerfully and forcefully to boss Roy Evans that he's back on track in the first team stakes.
   " I was pleased to get through the game on Wednesday, even though I was a bit tired towards the end," he said. "It was the first I'd played in four and-a-half-months. "After breaking my ankle it was a question of getting used to doing different things. Games are different to training.
  "In training you can always do as much as you want, but in matches you are forced to do things. That's when you need to be sure you can extend yourself. That's why it was good to get a game under my belt."
   Redknapp is a mighty red battler who has experienced all the highs and lows of the glory game in every sense, and he knows instinctively that, even when fit,life can be hard on the football front. For in terms of competition, there are few places tougher than Anfield. After all, it was when Jamie was injured that manager Evans splashed out on fellow midfielders Leonhardsen and Danny Murphy. And with youngster Jamie Carragher also proving he can operate there, Redknapp is prepared for a battle.
   He said: "The signings didn't really bother me. Anyway, there's nothing I can do about it. All I want to do is get myself fit. "Then it's up to me to prove whether I'm good enough or not to get back in the team. That's always my main objective. But then all the lads will be thinking the same." However, he added: "I want to play as soon as possible, but I have to be realistic and sensible. If I come back too early and then break down then I won't be any use to anybody."

Redknapp dreams of France '98

  Jamie Redknapp will watch the battle of Rome with one thing on his mind...will he make the final showdown in France next summer?
  Redknapp, 24, has seen his dreams of playing in the World Cup finals hit by five months of injury anguish and knows he can't even be sure of a place back in Liverpool's team. He will be in the stands on Sunday when Liverpool clash with Chelsea at Anfield. Redknapp will witness Paul Ince, Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler clash with Gianfranco Zola, Roberto Di Matteo and Gianluca Vialli in a forerunner to the Italy-England confrontation in Rome's Olympic Stadium next Saturday. Somehow, in the next few months, Redknapp must win the greatest fight of his professional career just to get on the plane to France.
  In his absence Redknapp has seen Liverpool buy Ince, Danny Murphy and Oyvind Leonhardsen to stiffen up the much-insulted soft centre of their midfield.In Glenn Hoddle's plans David Beckham,David Batty, Paul Gascoigne, Ince and Paul Scholes are ahead of him. But it's his fight to reclaim his Liverpool place that will be the key to his future.
   Redknapp will have to sit out the Chelsea match and probably the Coca-Cola tie at West Brom while playing in a couple more reserve games. The Merseyside derby on October 18 is a realistic comeback date. He has played one practice match against Crewe reserves and was delighted to complete the 90 minutes unscathed.
  "I was a bit tired towards the end," he said. "It was the first time I'd played in four and a half months. After the injury it was a case of getting used to doing different things. Games are different to training.In training you can always do as much as you need, but in matches you are forced to do things - that's when you need to be sure you can extend yourself."
   The departure of John Barnes and Redknapp's injury have forced manager Roy Evans to change a midfield that was blamed for lack of steel last season.
   In Redknapp's absence, Evans has reverted to a central midfield pairing of Ince and Michael Thomas, two tough nuts instead of the silky passing skills of the likes of Redknapp. It's a pairing that could work for club and country, but for now Redknapp has to sit and watch and hope that time is not running out for him.

I wanna be a Red forever!

Redknapp: My Liverpool Anguish

   He said: "I should be feeling really happy, but I'm just gutted.That's not what I imagined my return to the side would be like."    It was lost on Redknapp that a string of people were coming up to him at the airport on the way back to Merseyside at the dead of night, saying he'd been Liverpool's best player.
   He added: "Thanks, but it doesn't help - it doesn't mean anything when welose a game like that."
   Liverpool had been torn apart by the pace and fire of a French side struggling near the foot of their league and way short of the stature andability of Paris St Germain,the club that dumped Evans' side out of the semi-final of the Cup Winners' Cup last season.
   PSG arrived at Anfield for their second leg protecting a 3-0 lead, too. Liverpool staged a fighting last stand and got the aggregate score back to 2-3 before going out.
   Redknapp said: "We can't look at it like that - we have to believe we can do it."
   But on a personal front, Redknapp could manage to raise a half smile at his own return.
   He said: "It was good to be back at last. I have to be happy about that.I had been out for a long time and had a lot of problems with the ankle. But it felt OK, no problem at all. And I was so pleased to get a full first-team game under my belt."
   "I lasted the pace, too, which was also pleasing. I didn't want to come off late on. I need as much match practice as possible. But a result like that takes the shine off it all. I can't even think about England and the World Cup - all I am concentrating on is getting back into Liverpool's side regularly and helping improve the results.
   "Everything else will follow. Impressing Glenn Hoddle comes second to re-establishing my place in the Liverpool team."

  

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