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John Barnes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

Yeah, you can come in now and again.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

So that's a winger.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

A left-sided midfield player is one who can come in off the line.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

He can play.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

That's a four, not one of three, one of four.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

You come in off the line, you look like Ray Kennedy, Sammy Lee.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

They were wide players.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

So Sammy Lee played wide of four when he was not a winger.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

Now, if it was Stevie Highway, he would be a winger.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

So as much as he said, yes, I was a left winger at Watford because my role was to get crosses in.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

For Liverpool, as much as I played on the left, yes, and you get crosses in now and again, I would also come in field to play one-twos and to do different things.

Stick to Football
John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

So I was a winger for Watford.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

Yes, I was a winger for Liverpool, if you like to say that.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

It's a bit like saying Mo Salah's a winger, but he's not, or Sadio Mane.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

So you have to understand the difference between those.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

Yeah, but they didn't tell me.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

That's the thing.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

Yeah, because I'm looking at the team and all of a sudden I'm looking at this team and I'm saying, well, it's not really required because as I said, most wingers, if you like, Theo Walcott did the same.

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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

You want to come in field and get involved, don't you?

Stick to Football
John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112

Whereas if the manager says stays out wide, you stay out wide, which is what Graham Taylor did.