John Barnes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I've now signed for Liverpool, right?
And the first game, fortunately for me, the first two games were away because there was a hole in the cup.
So we played away at Arsenal.
We won 2-1.
We played away, played well.
So the first home game,
It was against Oxford.
And as I said, when I signed for Liverpool, in training, it was as if we played together all our lives.
Pre-season, we were winning games.
New team, Russian Dalbijal, gone, Bairdsley, Aldo.
We're playing in a new way.
You know, Liverpool, we're like a machine, but here's a new way and we're playing really well.
Third game, home to Oxford.
Free kick, 14 minutes, bent it into the top corner.
Remember those two guys used to abuse me?
He said, the first one looked at his mate, Charlie's behind me, and he went, he's not as black as I thought.
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What do you want to talk about?
Listen, racism in life, in society, that's really what we have to talk about.
If you talk about racism in society, it's a microcosm.