John Barnes
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
My bit was stand out wide, go down the line, put a cross in.
He goes, go on, give us a rap, give us a rap.
And I've gone, oh, my rapping days are over.
And under his breath, as he took a seat, he went, your football day was over.
Yeah.
Well, I had a different upbringing to most people.
I mean, I grew up in Jamaica.
And my dad was a colonel in the army, a head of the army.
Oh, wow.
Remember when we went to the army base when we came up from Jamaica?
So my dad went to Sandhurst in England in the 50s.
Yeah.
So with Andrew Parker Bowles.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was at my mum and dad's wedding.
He knows him well.
So...
He then came back to Jamaica, currently in the army.
He then got sent back to England as military attachΓ©.
Of course, what happened, and I can tell the story now, what happened was my dad's from Trinidad.