John Barnes
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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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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.
So, you know, I mean, it's great that it's a high-profile game that was brought to people's attention, but this was nothing new.
This is nothing that I had not been through before, and I do not even remember doing it, because that happened every week, and you kick a ball out of the field...
Great iconic picture, back heel, whatever.
I don't even remember doing it because people said, do you remember it?
No, because that happened so often.
Well, a lot of it was to do with my not being born in England because I remember, I mean, Jimmy Greaves, funny enough, they made a comment because I wasn't born in England, so how committed are you?
But I always used the Irish boys as an example.
You know, you've got John Aldridge and Tony Cascarino on back.
They're not flipping Irish, are they?
Don't let them fool you guys.
You know, they're the scouts really.
But what point I'm making is when they play, as Roy knows, when they play for Ireland, they're committed because that's who you choose to play for.
I use Stuart Pearce as an example.
I mean, English run through.
British bulldog gives 100%.
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