John Barnes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know what I mean?
Yes.
When you were young coming in, it must have been difficult for you as well.
Yeah, yeah.
But as I said, when Roy came over, I remember the first game you played against us.
And I remember playing in the game.
And Roy, you could see he had something about him, but never knew him.
And I said to Dez Walker, who's that?
He goes, I don't know.
He said, did he play a pre-season game against Forest?
And then Cloughy just brought him over.
Was it that week he came over?
You hadn't been with the first team, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, they played him, but they didn't know who he was.
He said, I don't know, his name's Roy.
He's grabbed Brian Laws by his throat, and he's gone, never mind him.
Get McMahon.
If all it took for racism to rear its ugly head again was three black players to miss a penalty, that meant that all we're doing is teaching people how to keep quiet.
Are we concentrating too much on technique?
I think we're concentrating too much on tricks.