I idolised Barnes when I was a kid. He was never 'black', he was John Barnes, Liverpool legend. Colour never entered into it, and still doesn't. Legend, full stop.
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@johna66024 жыл бұрын
Yeah me too, as a kid I just seen a amazing player that played on the wing like me. He was my hero and Is a legend no doubt.
@TheFamilesso8 жыл бұрын
We can go on and on about Barnes, but our Liverpool family really know who Barnes is and how important was to our club, we will always love and remember him. John made Liverpool an international club. He is the reason why Liverpool have the most fans than any other team/club in the world. We never walk alone, every nation we go we have a family. We really never walk alone.
@willvicscar59102 жыл бұрын
Thats not true tho is it?
@thehitchrules9 жыл бұрын
Class act not just for the amazing footballer he was, but as a man. He put up with so much racist bullshit and rose above it. The man let his football do the talking . Awesome.
@djkeiranjay31328 жыл бұрын
+thehitchrules yup
@ercanhassan21268 жыл бұрын
Great comment 👌🏻
@حسينمحمد-ت3ش3و6 жыл бұрын
ممتاز بارنز
@dondamon4669Ай бұрын
He was quite racist himself and should of played for Jamaica
@moomountain9 ай бұрын
Favourite Liverpool player ever. I think if he’d have been able to play in Europe I think the rest of the would have recognised him as one of the best.
@fowlersleftboot12 жыл бұрын
Absolute legend without a doubt one of Liverpool's greatest ever players!
@newone6613 жыл бұрын
My favourite English footballer ever! and I am not even a Liverpool fan. He was simply phenomenal. The 'Tiger Woods' of British football at the time.
@moosehak13 жыл бұрын
One of the best players I've ever seen play the beautiful game
@lfcspectre43355 жыл бұрын
John Barnes one of greatest left wingers at Liverpool history period, An unbelievable football talent in his era. Goals Assists Skills Plus great guy Had everything to be a Liverpool legend!
@christschinwon11 жыл бұрын
Call me a gory boy, but that Liverpool team once Barnes was in was complete - he made it so. Total legend
@jonblazeinc5 жыл бұрын
Totally agree
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
@@jonblazeinc Me too.
@atagaijewere15403 жыл бұрын
I was there mate you said it mate
@Rednwhite7713 жыл бұрын
What an amazing player Johnny Barnes was. I remember my bedroom covered wall and roof with LFC posters. Our man JB was and will always be my hero. Incredible player. YNWA.
@topsturner13 жыл бұрын
My era so I'm biased, but my favourite LFC player. A gentleman, wonderful ambassador for the club and sport and a thrill to watch. Truely inspiring.
@shawnjessop176412 жыл бұрын
I remember growing up watching this great team in the late 80's!!! ....Digger Barnes was the cream of that crop.... and my fave player of all time :_)
@galenatt12 жыл бұрын
John Barnes - probably one of the best players of his generation. My idol in LFC and the english team in my teens. Always a member of the LFC legends.
@EvoGoody3 жыл бұрын
Amazing player at his peak. Barnes and Beardsley were unstoppable in the late '80s.
@telephonic13 жыл бұрын
from 87-90....... i have never seen a better player as good as this....absolute genius
@bachittarlehal17798 жыл бұрын
1987 to 1991 barnes was at his best
@wleon406811 жыл бұрын
No way Barnes would be worth only 55 million I can tell you that he would be worth a hell of a lot more than that. Say, around the 95 Million mark, even maybe over one hundred million.That is how good he was. If Bale is worth 85 million now, Barnes would have smashed the one hundred million pound barrier no question at all about that.
@ryanjack11114 жыл бұрын
I come from jamaica, my name is john bar-nes, when i do my things the crowd goes bananas! LEGEND!
@tommyboyd9208 Жыл бұрын
Digger, what a nice fella too
@wleon406810 жыл бұрын
ABSOLUTE RED LEGEND AND ICON!!!
@stavrosavgousti88873 ай бұрын
The reason why I support Liverpool to this day. In the 80's at school in the playground everyone wanted to be John Barnes.
@ihateyoumother-fucker32045 жыл бұрын
4:43 touching to see LUFC fans applauding him after he's knocked one in. John Barnes, Absolute legend.
@cjewe1z9 жыл бұрын
Barnes was too good for the English league. He should have moved to Italy when Serie A had all the kings.
@maurozonta86938 жыл бұрын
A.C.Milan excange Luther Blissett for John....it s not the same...for me if he come to A .C.Milan he win 2golden ball.great John
@mattcolley3584 ай бұрын
My fav liverpool player. Just wow, when he was on song a privilege to see him play. And some of his goals were outrageous
@sup3rh1k12 жыл бұрын
0:31 Gary Ablett, RIP, legend. YNWA.
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@jonblazeinc8 жыл бұрын
sole reason I supported Liverpool in the 1st place Barnes was my biggest childhood football idol. not sure if anyone realised how great he would become for lfc in summer 87 but he super surpassed that expectation. was def an important buy for lfc breaking down racial barriers and for Barnes himself to test his ability at a big club. Thanks Dalglish that's your best ever signing maybe suarez comes close. Thanks Barnes for the super memories growing up watching you as a kid
@BozJustBad14 жыл бұрын
Awesome player, I remember him when I started watching the premier league in the mid-90's, he was still in Liverpool, still doing his stuff despite being over 30...incredible player and a charismatic guy.
@keelan123100012 жыл бұрын
I wish I was alive to see him play live every week instead if having to watch all of these videos on KZbin of a great player ! I wish Liverpool still had a brilliant player like him .... YNWA !
@wleon406811 жыл бұрын
LEGEND, BECAUSE ALL OF THOSE 84 GOALS WHERE CLASS!
@donkatt92099 жыл бұрын
Pool's best players just pure talent and ability to do anything with the ball, Barnes along with Suarez even though he wasn't there long. Then Daglish and Gerrad.
@AndyChilton23412 жыл бұрын
John Barnes turned me into a liverpool fan when he signed all my mates at school remembered the goal he scored for england against brazil when he took on the full brazilian team and scored a amazing goal. Since then i have been a liverpool fan hopefully Sterling will become the new john Barnes
@aliadibi89454 жыл бұрын
A very good player. Based on his interviews, a quite articulate and intelligent one too.
@mfice197511 жыл бұрын
Wonderful football player,my favourite player growing up.So technically gifted his left foot was incredible!
@simoncollinge55208 жыл бұрын
John Barnes. Captain. Leader. Legend.
@wanakmalzarif13 жыл бұрын
One of the best!!
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@shanemolloy28243 жыл бұрын
Barnes caused me fall in love with football as an art form. Those 80's Liverpool teams were just downright entertaining.
@FTMJarra13 жыл бұрын
First 3 seasons at LFC Digger was the best player in the country by some distance, Gazza, & Robson included....he was the stand out player in a brilliant LFC side. Football genius.!!
@steviegblade13 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the video - LFC supporter from India!
@johncambridge7339 Жыл бұрын
Truly one of the greatest players to have ever played for Liverpool
@jimipurple1235 жыл бұрын
Amazing player
@moomountain9 ай бұрын
The way he played he was basically an English maradona.
@roatanowl87915 жыл бұрын
class act, pretty sure he scored the best individual goal for england ever
@elmacca13 жыл бұрын
it was an honour to lace his boots...absolute legend...
@seachtaine10 жыл бұрын
barnesy was pure class what would he be worth if he was playing now fucking unreal
@Marjopolo3025 жыл бұрын
Barnes had every thing... Dancing with a football....
@vickybyrne75423 жыл бұрын
Remember being at the game sitting in the kop on crowd control bar was only 10 at the time by far the greatest Liverpool ever
@redcat1014 жыл бұрын
his short passing in tight areas ability was amazing,
@CarlFormby-n1c Жыл бұрын
Johnny barnes what a player i always remember him as a kid i ❤u barnes you are a scouse
@Avilla220113 жыл бұрын
John Barnes was a fantastic player! Should have been an England staple....Best English player of his time but foolish managers could not see that!
@chrisliddiard7253 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the shame of the English managers over the years is that they could not see a way to use these gifted creatives types. And so they tried to turn them into another squadie, a runner, a marthon man, when finess players like Barnes and Hoddle, should have been played as that unknown quantity. You build teams around players like them, you let them have a say on the way they are utilised. You get the rest of the team to understand and interact with them.. The trouble with the typical camp mentality is everyone is training for their place, they are competing with the other player for the same position, hoping to get the nod ahead of the other player. They are each trying to say to the manager, we can play well without x. With that kind of mentality, they aren't looking to pull the best from each other, and so go come the big game they have only that vision created for them by the manager, but little else. They are selected to fit a plan, not for their ability to improvise or think beyond that plan.
@reza768712 жыл бұрын
JOHN BARNES,,,the true black diamond..
@futureLFCnumber912 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting these.I wish there was somewhere on youtube to see the whole list.
@TheDeckonja12 жыл бұрын
Barnes is the best in history! Greetings from Serbia
@kuasadunia13 жыл бұрын
he's very athletic and at the same time he has skills and pace. what a player. is there anybody in similar position to him in modern football?
@VADELMAHILLO-cw7jm4 жыл бұрын
ONE OF MY IDOLS
@WatfordsGoldenBoy12 жыл бұрын
Can i just say, we was a watford legend aswell.
@ladyhunter26513 жыл бұрын
the one and only john barnes..no one can replace him,..liverpool or england
@simonforrest25225 жыл бұрын
My footballing hero growing up and still to this day..Don't think i could have tolerated the abuse that he did.. My idol.. Mr John 'Digger' Barnes
@driffter197614 жыл бұрын
Bloody fantastic player.
@telephonic13 жыл бұрын
best player i have ever seen...actually the best winger i have ever seen
@vjkumaran14 жыл бұрын
Awsome... J.Barnes
@name87316 жыл бұрын
Great player, more importantly had a really good verse
@tradeit13 жыл бұрын
I LOVE HIM
@franklampard63167 жыл бұрын
Pride of Watford!
@mrmister10213 жыл бұрын
my hero,on his day he was the best winger ever
@torhz10112 жыл бұрын
RIP Gary Ablett
@MrAndy62797 жыл бұрын
Whilst Gerrard may be the clubs greatest ever servant and Dalglish and Suarez were sensational but no one and I mean no one was in his fellas page. Barnes was the greatest player the world has ever seen. There's a video on KZbin about 6 mins long and it shows things that had never been done with a ball and have never been done again.
@MrAndy62797 жыл бұрын
^^^On this fellas page ^^^
@lovetoact13 жыл бұрын
John Barnes make unlocking defences look so simple.
@velaSRK14 жыл бұрын
thanks a lot LFC HISTORY
@oun-photo7 жыл бұрын
افضل لاعب انجليزي على الاطلاق لو كان الان لسعره تجاوز 250 مليون فريق ليفربول الممتع في الثمانينات كلهم ممتعين
@drbanana49936 жыл бұрын
True football heroesfrom the past. Modern day footballers seem to behave like children compared to the players of the 80s
@redplanettv870812 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Gary Ablett!
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
Well said.
@artfuldodger64409 жыл бұрын
Go Barnes
@dee20bee516 жыл бұрын
สุดยอด ครับ บาร์น ชอบตั้งแต่เด็ก มา30ปี+
@jodethetoad7611 жыл бұрын
from a rugby country, growing up in nz when soccer (fb) was before rugby (tv), i thought jb was something else, there was something about him
@mukundutm5 жыл бұрын
Indeed John Charles Barnes will go down as one of Liverpool fc's best players.He was the catalyst&the spearhead of the brilliant Liverpool fc side built by King KENNY for the 1987/88.He fought racism with such class,humility,civility&elegance.He managed to silence the racist bigots &England boo boys with his brilliant footballing brain. Rightly so he was voted the 1988&1990 Footballer of the year.Its a pity Liverpool were banned from Europe 1985-1990.That Liverpool side would have added 1/2 European cup(s).
@gianluigidesantis47265 жыл бұрын
John Barnes è stato una mezzala , tecnicamente ed atleticamente completa .Fisicamente per: potenza , velocità , elevazione ed acrobazia ricorda Rummenigge , per abilità tecnica Pelé ed estro sinistro ed inventiva Maradona !
@centreback1312 жыл бұрын
I honestly think that Ryan Babel had the potential to reach the heights of the Great John Barnes. Too bad he was never given a decent oppurtunity to prove himself. He did score some vital goals for us though. But John Barnes was phenomenal. I wish we could scout just one player who possesses such extraordinary quality.
@jimipurple1235 жыл бұрын
87 to 91 he was the 2nd best player in the world after maradona
@TheAweshq7 жыл бұрын
لاعب مذهل من ذكريات طفولتي
@djkeiranjay31328 жыл бұрын
too good for anyone irrespective of the league he played in :-)
@insanemacbeth12 жыл бұрын
100% cosign. JOHN BARNES is easily one of the top-5 great BRITISH players.
@Stantheman8484 жыл бұрын
Most skilful British player ever.
@Harrier201533 жыл бұрын
Whether left or right foot there’s no doubt for him
@mikesheerin760710 жыл бұрын
That move at 7:39 unbelievable.
@TheAweshq7 жыл бұрын
Mike Sheerin wow
@jamiemac197612 жыл бұрын
1987: John Barnes Peter Beardlsey John Aldridge Combined Transfer Fee = £3.55m 2012 John Barnes Peter Beardlsey John Aldridge Estimated Transfer Fee = ???
@chrisliddiard7253 жыл бұрын
Beardlsey was signed for 1.9 million, Barnes 0.9 How Barnes didn't break the million barrior i'll never know. What he was doing at Watford more than justified the price tag.
@ariyadz8910 жыл бұрын
Very Ronaldo like.. Legend!
@mikesheerin760710 жыл бұрын
No my friend Ronaldo is Barnes like
@wallacesousuke143310 жыл бұрын
Mike Sheerin lol who's Barnes?
@wleon406811 жыл бұрын
Bale does not even compare with Barnes in his heyday. No one does that I can think of, past or present within British Football.
@CCCoNeTiMe14 жыл бұрын
The. Man. Full. Stop.
@driffter197612 жыл бұрын
Not even Cantona can compete with this. Barnes was in a different class.
@gunnyakdo165311 жыл бұрын
maybe in dribbling but whos is better on tackling or pass?
@shitman21711 жыл бұрын
Jordan Ibe will be the next John Barnes
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
He's got a long way to go...... TRUST ME!
@josephantony2008live11 жыл бұрын
Russel Nash, What's the fan chant at the beginning of the video? can any one tell me?
@894steven13 жыл бұрын
Can anybody help me?...I am trying to remember the chant at the start of the video played with the ring of fire...
@Excecutioner14711 жыл бұрын
John Aldridge goal poacher 35m. Peter Beardlsey world class striker/playmaker 45m. John Barnes, world class winger and skills 55m.....135m for all 3
@razer00720734 жыл бұрын
He left or right footed?
@jonblazeinc3 жыл бұрын
Left
@imnotthemessiah14 жыл бұрын
One thing I could always say bout Digger is "look at those thighs" lol. Bless your genius anyway digger and happy birthday.
@kieran66967 жыл бұрын
Barnes or Beardsly ??
@markwhittaker68664 жыл бұрын
Barnes just for me. Beardsley was a hell of a player however. Simply brilliant. He doesn't get enough respect for me.