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John Barnes

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

Now for Watford, because of course you want to come in and get the ball off the centre back, for example, you know, in the pockets, in the hole, in between the midfield players, in between the lines.

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

At Watford, I would never do that.

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

But at Liverpool, Alan Hansen's bringing the ball out.

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

Alan Hansen can't get the ball further than 20 yards.

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

So I would always have to do that with a fullback overlapping.

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

Now that would never happen at Watford.

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

So therefore, I had the experience.

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

And that's the thing.

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

We're not played up front where you can actually come short and do different things.

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

You kind of like get that.

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

But at Liverpool, it was so interesting because they never coached us once.

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

And they said from the first couple of weeks in training, we were playing practice matches.

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

I was doing it.

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

Peter Baird said, we're doing it.

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

And he's thinking, they never told you.

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

I mean, running around would say, half-time he'd come in, he'd go, right, what's gone wrong?

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

He goes, I know, but I'm not telling you.

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

And you'd walk out of the room.

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

Work it out yourself.

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

seems a little bit easier it seems that way if you want to score goals you were saying you were cutting in but were you finding that hard as well no no no I'm not coming in to get the ball to one score I'm coming in to get the ball to play either one twos or to play for someone else's score if I was playing on the right and coming in I'm coming in on my left foot and I'm going to shoot