Sky Sports pundit banned from driving for a number of months after two dashing raps
Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool and England midfielder Jamie Redknapp has been banned from driving for 12 months after being caught speeding in his luxury car
Jamie Redknapp has been banned from driving for 12 months after being caught speeding in his luxury SUV.
The Sky Sports pundit and former Liverpool footballer, 51, admitted speeding in his Audi Q8 last June and November, which took his licence over the points limit. Bexley Magistrates’ Court heard the ex-England international was clocked doing 28mph in a 20mph zone in Wandsworth and 58mph in a 50mph zone on the M4 near Reading.
Redknapp did not appear in court yesterday but had previously notified magistrates of a guilty plea. This was his second “totting” offence after a six-month ban in 2021.
Before the two speeding counts last year, Redknapp, of west London, already had 12 points on his licence. He was ordered to pay £608 costs.
Meanwhile Sky Sports has been warned its prices risk killing off the age old tradition of watching the footy down the pub, it has been claimed.
Dale Harvey, best known for his work on The Great British Pub Crawl, says landlords are having to sell close to an extra 2,000 pints a month just to pay for their Sky Sports access.
He produced images of a bill reportedly received by The Eight Farmers in Crewe, which saw the boozer charged £1,839.20 for a Sky Business subscription for the month of March this year.
“That’s 2,000 extra pints on top of them just keeping their lights on and their doors open, that 2,000 extra pints every month just to be able to show live football,” he said.
Some landlords are now reportedly cancelling their Sky subscriptions because they can’t afford it, meaning they miss out on sales from people coming to watch the game, and people who rely on those boozers to see their teams needing to find alternative arrangements.
“I speak to landlords near enough every day of my life now and I know some who have cancelled their Sky now, can’t do it,” Dale added.
“Their renewal price has come through and they’ve gone ‘look we can’t physically afford to do it.’ People who were using their pub to watch the sport in, they’re not going to be able to do it in that pub any more, so they’re costing them their customers.”
In a statement made to the Daily Star, Sky Sports said: “We aim to keep prices as low as possible while still delivering the content and support that adds value to our customers’ business.”
