John Barnes

So to give an example, my first responsibility, I'm a winger, I'm taking people, I'm putting crosses in.

My first responsibility was do not let the fullback go without you chasing him.

So forget about the way people see me.

Yeah, my bit was stand out wide, go down the line, put a cross in.

Never mind me.

So it's really interesting because, you know,

I never thought I was a Liverpool player because the way Liverpool play, we don't play with just wingers stick to your line and stuff like that.

But what Graham Taylor did was, and most teams did it then, they looked at you and Liverpool, I didn't think I was a Liverpool type player.

Look at the way Watford play, long balls, Liverpool bring it out from the back.

How am I going to play for Liverpool?

But they looked at you and they say, you have what it takes to fit into our team.

without us telling you because they don't coach you at Liverpool, as Carol will tell you.

Well, you got in and started to do a bit of coaching, didn't they?

But before, there's no coaching.

You just have to work it out yourself.

So I didn't think I was a Liverpool-type player.

But fortunately, I had six years at Watford, which meant that they had looked at me for six years.

You were probably quite unusual for them to get it straight away.

Robbo had six years at West Brom.

Peter Barrett had six years at Newcastle.