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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
I've seen you come inside on your right foot.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that if it was on the left now, that's what I'm saying, look at Mo, and look at Sadio Mane on the right, and look at Jack Grealish on the right.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
So you'd have been a right winger in this day and age?
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
This day and age, 100, all left footers.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
And would you have preferred that, you think?
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Do you think that would have added to your game a little bit?
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Well, of course.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
you know, if you're scoring all the goals, you're going to get the big contracts, aren't you?
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
But the problem I had then, I didn't have then because then you had orthodox centre forwards.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
So therefore, they're not going to score.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Because if I'm coming in to do that, you don't have a centre.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
That's why for Mo and Sadio Mane, Bobby Firmino was ideal because he used to create that space for them.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Whereas if you're playing with Rushie and Aldo and Robbie Fowler, you want to score.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
You don't want anybody to do that because how are you going to score goals?
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
So,
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Playing now, obviously playing on the right coming in, but now, apart from Haaland, you don't get many orthodox centre-forwards who really mind that kind of situation.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Rushie, you would have hated that, I would have thought.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Any centre-forward would hate that because, hey, you're going to score goals.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Yeah, well, my dad first because Graham Taylor was very disciplined as well, so very similar because back then, I don't know, back then, as a young boy, you would... Was your dad strict with you?
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Yeah, I mean, he's an army officer, so yeah.