John Barnes

Very strict.

Very strict.

More from a discipline, more from a point of view of, from a sporting perspective.

You know, I played rugby for London schools.

Any sport that I did, he insisted, not just your talent, but your application, your responsibility.

I tell you, and you know, you're just doing it naturally, so you don't really think about the conditioning you're on.

You don't think about your dad telling you this, just doing it because you do it.

Stowboys Club, Paddington, Harrow Road, not far from you.

Coming from Jamaica at 12, I played for the under-16s in Jamaica at 12.

I'm the same player, an attacking player, score goals.

I come to England, go to Stole Boys Club on the Harrow Road, just by the Royal Oak.

They had been together for about a year, winning 6-0 in the Regents' Park Sunday League.

I've now joined this team.

When you play for a good team who score lots of goals, nobody wants to be a defender.

So my dad said to me, your first responsibility is to the team, not to yourself.

So you're going to play as a centre-back for this team.

So from the age of 12 till 16, when I went to Sudbury Court for six months before I went to Watford, the only position I played was centre-back.

I was never a centre-back.

But because the team were winning 10-0 and no one wanted to play there, he said, that's where you're going to play.

So for four years, I played only as a centre-back, never played anywhere else.