John Barnes

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1,771 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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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.

Football's a microcosm of life.

To get rid of racism in football, you have to get rid of it in society, not the other way around.

So unfortunately, we're using football to try and drive it.

So look at Mo.

We've changed the way people think about Muslims because Mo's here.

I can tell you, if Mo leaves, that's going to change.

So that is how fickle it is.

It can do nothing about it.

So it never bothered me.

What really bothered me?

And I'll tell you why, from a racism point of view, I've thought this since I was 18 years old.

I remember...

coming from Arsenal, up the Holloway Road, going back to Watford in the A1.

And I was being, me and Luther were being abused.

This is a Saturday at four o'clock on Holloway Road.

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