I think John was his dad, he was brought up in Reading.
Don't think he was, according to an article i read, his father was a cricketer... .
It might have been one of the best decisions for the young Jamie Bynoe-Gittens to skip his cricket ambitions and turn to football.
Due to his father’s background, cricket dominated family life as the Barbados-born father had been a cricket player. “I tried a little bit,” the 19-year-old Dortmund winger said but admitted: “Football worked much better for me,” reports Xinhua.