John Barnes

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1,771 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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And then my dad got a phone call from Bertie Mee.

I don't know if you remember Bertie Mee.

He was at Watford at the time to say, would John like... We know he's going to go back to...

Well, he's going to America to go to Howard.

But the four months before he goes, he doesn't want to come and train with Watford on the 16th, on the 17th.

So he went to train at Watford.

And then three months later, when we were going back, they said, do you want to stay?

And I signed a contract.

So if that taxi driver didn't stop, I would never have been spotted.

So look at Wrighty.

Wrighty played for Penn and B until you were like, you know.

22, yeah.

So back then, you had to be lucky to be spotted.

I still would have had the talent.

I would have had the potential.

But I was never spotted.

And I would have gone to America, become whatever.

And there's so many players back then.

You must have played with lots of players who you thought were good players and they never made it because they were never spotted.

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