John Barnes
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I started to laugh.
So I've turned around, looked at him and he's gone, all right, son, I've called for help.
Come quietly, come quietly.
So my sister's come running down and she's opened the door and she's seen the police and she's going to call me Johnny.
She goes, the police has brought, the police have brought me home because they thought the police brought me home.
So it was a bit of a misunderstanding.
So.
No, but here's the thing.
Because the most iconic picture... Iconic.
The banana one.
The one against... But listen, that was 1987.
Now...
I've been playing for Watford since 1981.
That happened all the time.
The reason it was highlighted was because Liverpool-Everton, the two best teams in the country, had a big high-profile game.
Black players were used to that every single week.
So it was like normal.
And until that happened, whereby people went, oh, does this really happen?
I mean, right, we'll tell you.
This happened all the time.