John Barnes
speaker
1,771 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Jun
John Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Playing now, obviously playing on the right coming in, but now, apart from Haaland, you don't get many orthodox centre-forwards who really mind that kind of situation.
Rushie, you would have hated that, I would have thought.
Any centre-forward would hate that because, hey, you're going to score goals.
Yeah, well, my dad first because Graham Taylor was very disciplined as well, so very similar because back then, I don't know, back then, as a young boy, you would... Was your dad strict with you?
Yeah, I mean, he's an army officer, so yeah.
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.
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