Harry Redknapp: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

The question

If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Harry Redknapp

English football player and manager

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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James Norton English actor

I would have started therapy earlier.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

Justin Hawkins

Absolutely nothing.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗

Adrian Scarborough British actor

The first 12 years of school. I was very unhappy. I was not academic, so I played the fool till I was 16.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 February 2022 source ↗

Mandy Patinkin American actor and singer

I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2019 source ↗