John Barnes
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Podcast Appearances
I said, OK.
Wright signed him.
But this was the time when a lot of the players, Stubbsy and Craig Burley, they didn't have good contracts.
And Rangers, with Michael Moles and all those players, were giving them 20 grand a week.
So it wasn't a happy time.
The year before I came with Wenglis, they'd finished second and Wenglis was a lovely man.
And so there was a bit of disharmony there.
So I've now come and Kenny came and we started off okay.
We were three points behind him up until Christmas.
But then when Larson broke his leg and he broke his jaw, what you need is the harmony.
so Viduca then you were there with Viduca wanted to go and you know Craig Burley wanted to go they weren't happy and remember in the dressing room when he started taking off his gear against Cali well he never played so what happened in Venice Cali so you remember right he had to come on because he just goes and this is where who's this Mark Viduca because what happened was you have to be careful I don't know what you found with foreign players when they first came in you have to be careful how you speak to them
in terms of insulting them.
You know, after the game, you go, they're shouting at them and stuff.
Some of them don't like that.
But Mark Vujicic is an Aussie as much as he's a Croatian.
And Eric Black, the coach, said to him, because against him, when it's Cali Thistle, he goes, oh, you're cheating.
He goes, what?
He goes, you're cheating because he wasn't running around because he wanted to go to Leeds because Leeds at that time was going to go to Leeds.
And he just took his... He just started taking his gear.
He said, I'm not playing.