Love Digger! Could listen to him all day. He’s the main reason I became a Liverpool fan 34 years ago while growing up in Malawi 🇲🇼! One of LFC’s all time greats
@@adamskistotty should have been played in a three with Lineker & Beardsley instead of pinned to the left, easy to double up on and had marauding Psycho killing his space. Like So many England players, never brought IT.Shame as he was as good as anyone in his time.
He was absolutely brilliant yesterday, I listened to it all and it was brilliant, a funny, charming, great story teller, humble and honest. Was fantastic his story about how he got to be a professional footballer was just crazy. Please please get him on the show again with Goldstein and Cundy as it was absolutely gold.
Late 80s Barmes was at his best Unfortunately suffered because of Europe banning English teams from playing. Surely would have been a Ballon dor winner with the level he was playing at
Barnes is such a great speaker and has excellent perspective. The fact that he rates Maradona as the greatest carries some weight vs many other non- players or players who've not reached the level that Barnes was. John was a world class player also.
Talk sport well done for finally having a knowledgeable and well spoken ex footballer who is not making statements for hits! Sign him on a contract put him on the Simon Jordan show
Always painful hearing about 89 🤣 the fact that taking it into the corner didn't enter Barnes mind shows how attacking minded that brilliant Liverpool team was
Johnny b. What a legend. I have had the pleasure of his company at a dinner in Durban South Africa with some Liverpool old boys. It was absolutely brilliant. All to raise money for a charity. What a great bunch of lads and money well spent.
Another point that not so many people know that the field was so bumpy and unlevel for Maradona to keep the ball in his possession and under control needed extra ordinary skills. Watch how the ball be bouncing around when Diego was manoeuvering around between English players. Greatest World Cup goal ever
Barnes was a better dribbler and more skillfull player than Cristiano hands down. Kids who haven't watched him play willl think what am I on about, but Barnes was totally more naturally gifted
Never blame others for your mistakes that contributed to a goal. Terry Fenwick should have cleared it and not kicked it up in the air backwards towards his own goal. Shilton, who could use his hands, was then out jumped by Maradona who is much smaller. If you look at the stills, Shilton doesn't even jump off the ground.
I remember it will, john barnes ran into the flanks, gave the ball away to lukic, who threw it out to dixon, who kicked it to alan smith, whi passed it to michael thomas, and bang goal What john barnes is speaking about is his run cost liverpool, as they were losing 1-0, and if it stayed like that they would be champions, but arsenal got that goal as he gave ball away, and went 2-0 and arsenal were champions lol I stopped watching arsenal in 2002, but 16 years i watched arsenal we won 4 leagues First game i watched arsenal as a kid, was liverpool were playing arsenal in 1987 littlewoods cup final. For people that do not know liverpool just won everything back then There striker ian rush had a record, that if he scored liverpool did not lose Guess what my first game as kid watching arsenal that day, arsenal beat liverpool after ian rush scored, and it was first time liverpool lost a game where ian rush scored. It was some crazy record they had and i love that this was my first arsenal game as a kid. Liverpool had this mad record that ifd ian rush scored, liverpool back then did not lose. It was some crazy record lol, that it ended first time i watched arsenal in 1987, as we beat liverpool after ian rush scored a great goal for liverpool, and it was first time liverpool lost a game when ian rush scored In those years arsenal brought down liverpool, and liverpool went from winning all the time to not winning league for 3 decades Alex ferguson never beat liverpoolk with john barnes in those years It was arsenal in those years First time liverpool ever had dark clouds over it, was 1989 may, when we did that famous night, what john barnes speaks about here, and makes me laugh he did that. John barnes played football for sudbury, just down the road from where i grew up in london lol How things work out. John barnes was a bloody good player Shame his liverpool team never got to play acmilan, as liverpool were banned from europe back then.
Looking back, Wimbledon beating Liverpool was similar in some ways to Coventry beating Tottenham which only happened the previous year. Okay, Wimbledon were bigger underdogs than Coventry, but as Barnesy says they did have decent players.
@@cppcpp1158 They were amazing that season. Spurs were terrific, too, the previous year, though not quite as consistent in the league, sadly. Where Liverpool had Barnes & Beardsley Spurs had Hoddle & Waddle.
Go back and you'll find players did what Pele did before him. There are great players before then who don't get recognition because of the lack of any visual reference. Players like Andrade, Pedernera etc,etc.
@@user-gc8pc3ol6l But were not as great as pele, where they?? Did they win WCups, club tittles or any other tittles ? Until then they are just an imagination with no proof.
@@bepsolofootball in a world scale begins in the 1910's 2 decades later is the first WC many legends never played it then after 1938 two world cups were cancelled 1942 and 1946 other great legends missed their ship there (charro moreno or pedernera) and imagine the soldiers of the countrys in war that would have been football legends sad times
Sorry. But shilton should've dealt with maradona for the first goal...and secondly?...why was'nt barnes playing from the start?...we deserve everything we get
messi is the number 1,without doubt. but MARADONA was the best,bacause he came from the poverty. and MARADONA helped his comrades on the pitch everywhere. MARADONA made NAPOLI!!!
Andy Goldstein is a complete clown asking a Genius like John Barnes the questions about all the negative stuff in his career, never kicked a ball,he wouldn't have asked any White Man United players those questions
The worst thing that gets overlooked about that obvious handball is the clueless linesman who was right across from it. He was from some football minnow country and shouldn’t have been anywhere near that match and he froze/choked in the moment.
I can't believe John Barnes got bullied into saying Maradona and Messi are ahead of Pele. Someone who wins World Cups by scoring with a hand and pumping themselves with drugs???Gimme a break...
@@cppcpp1158 Yeah, yeah, yeah for some of you to win you have to cheat or lie. Keep coping. We know how that works. Nobody will EVER be better than Pele. I suspect you already that.
@@bekisiphotshili2566 your brain is a bit smooth so I will try to help you. John Barnes was asked a question, he gave an answer based on his OWN opinion/experience/perspective, not yours or anyone else for that matter.. Hope that helps
@@TribalScan. No. John was bullied to agree with Jason Cundy. He had just finished saying they should be called "best in their eras". He even brought up Stanley Matthews whom he never saw play and wondered why we would be calling anyone the best ever when there are people that played that we, the living today, never saw play. So, pal, yeah, may be smooth but yours is full of hydrogen sulfide---component of a fart. Just in case you can't catch on.
@@nqobilengema2165 Smoothbrain children with HGH deficiency are given the drug so they can attain their normal height. It hardly affects the talent of Messi.
"naturally"..."CR7 had to work harder"..what does that even mean in a GOAT debate? Tom Brady does not even have half of the talent of Aaron Rodgers, but he is the GOAT no debate. "Most Naturally gifted" is not the reason players like MJ23 are the GOAT. It is about the performance in the most pressurized situation and the ability to win everywhere they go with different teams. CR7 has dominated 3 leagues and Messi struggled as soon as he left Barca. Then you look at the UCL as the hardest competition, it is CR7 again. I never understood all the hype after WC like Argentina is not one of the greatest nation of football with or without Messi. Now had Messi been Australian and carried that team to victory then the discussion would have been different. Does that mean Haaland could never be considered the GOAT as he may never participate in the WC?
Maradona was an all time great, but never a goat for me. Please, guys. How can we celebrate a man for scoring with his hand, tarnished the sport with cocaine, and abuse his status as a star. My goat are Pele, Zidane, Messi, CR7, Cruff, Weah, Maldini's of the world. They can't be a single goat in football, but there are Goats and all timers.Sorry Mr. BARNES😢
Barnsey got that spot on , Maradona was and always will be the goat
Could listen to John Barnes all day. Insightful and one of Englands best technical talents ever. Get him on again and again 👍
he's great - takes no nonsense but is also able to joke about himself
@@jonsnow5518 proper old school
Love Digger! Could listen to him all day. He’s the main reason I became a Liverpool fan 34 years ago while growing up in Malawi 🇲🇼! One of LFC’s all time greats
John's goal in the Maracana stadium against Brazil was also bloody amazing!
Such a breath of fresh air listening to John Barnes. Charming character, I wish we could have him on every week.
People forget how good Barnes was. Late 80's he was unplayable.
Changed the game in England favour against the Argentines. However, never really replicated afterwards for England.
@@adamskistotty should have been played in a three with Lineker & Beardsley instead of pinned to the left, easy to double up on and had marauding Psycho killing his space. Like So many England players, never brought IT.Shame as he was as good as anyone in his time.
Better than Mane or Salah ...He is a Liverpool all time great
Maradona was marked by two England players, he left them for dead and beat another five England players to score, all on his left foot.
People forget Barnes was on the same level as Gullit, Van Basten and Laudrup. Diego was in a league on his own.
Guy was unplayable in his day, incredible player
Best guest and should be a pundit on a big channel
Agree but ask yourself why he isnt??? He has a pocket full of race cards he gets out at every opportunity which wont endear him to many channels! IMO
Love John Barnes ❤️ and his honesty
John Barnes is mad funny 😂
Barnes is a great guest
He was absolutely brilliant yesterday, I listened to it all and it was brilliant, a funny, charming, great story teller, humble and honest. Was fantastic his story about how he got to be a professional footballer was just crazy. Please please get him on the show again with Goldstein and Cundy as it was absolutely gold.
Late 80s Barmes was at his best
Unfortunately suffered because of Europe banning English teams from playing.
Surely would have been a Ballon dor winner with the level he was playing at
Barnes is such a great speaker and has excellent perspective. The fact that he rates Maradona as the greatest carries some weight vs many other non- players or players who've not reached the level that Barnes was.
John was a world class player also.
The hand of the GOAT
Talk sport well done for finally having a knowledgeable and well spoken ex footballer who is not making statements for hits! Sign him on a contract put him on the Simon Jordan show
Candy actually asked him did you think that 😅😅😅😅 that's got to go down as one of the greatest questions ever
Nice to hear from someone who lived through "The hand of God".
The best part was when he said, probably what it felt like when England got that VAR decision against Netherlands lol, fair play JB.
In 86 I remember us shouting bring on Barnes! Now it's bring on Palmer-
In '89 Barnes & McMahon hi-5d in the centre circle and said 1 minute! Then...
Always painful hearing about 89 🤣 the fact that taking it into the corner didn't enter Barnes mind shows how attacking minded that brilliant Liverpool team was
I could listen Barnsey talk all day!
John Barnes
You are a funny man
Delightful
Probably the most interesting ex English speaking player around.. smart as well.
Barnes goal vs Brazil in the maracana
Let the man speak. Hosts who love the sound of their own voices. Jaysus.
Johnny Barnes is soo intelligent and enthusiastic .........could listen to him all day
John barnes is chill men and thank you for remember olarticoechea , barnes was top level in all time england world cup squad he could be in the bench
Johnny b. What a legend. I have had the pleasure of his company at a dinner in Durban South Africa with some Liverpool old boys. It was absolutely brilliant. All to raise money for a charity. What a great bunch of lads and money well spent.
Another point that not so many people know that the field was so bumpy and unlevel for Maradona to keep the ball in his possession and under control needed extra ordinary skills. Watch how the ball be bouncing around when Diego was manoeuvering around between English players. Greatest World Cup goal ever
One of the best guests ever
Can't believe Barnes was on the bench
Barnes was a better dribbler and more skillfull player than Cristiano hands down. Kids who haven't watched him play willl think what am I on about, but Barnes was totally more naturally gifted
Never blame others for your mistakes that contributed to a goal. Terry Fenwick should have cleared it and not kicked it up in the air backwards towards his own goal. Shilton, who could use his hands, was then out jumped by Maradona who is much smaller. If you look at the stills, Shilton doesn't even jump off the ground.
I remember it will, john barnes ran into the flanks, gave the ball away to lukic, who threw it out to dixon, who kicked it to alan smith, whi passed it to michael thomas, and bang goal
What john barnes is speaking about is his run cost liverpool, as they were losing 1-0, and if it stayed like that they would be champions, but arsenal got that goal as he gave ball away, and went 2-0 and arsenal were champions
lol
I stopped watching arsenal in 2002, but 16 years i watched arsenal we won 4 leagues
First game i watched arsenal as a kid, was liverpool were playing arsenal in 1987 littlewoods cup final. For people that do not know liverpool just won everything back then
There striker ian rush had a record, that if he scored liverpool did not lose
Guess what my first game as kid watching arsenal that day, arsenal beat liverpool after ian rush scored, and it was first time liverpool lost a game where ian rush scored. It was some crazy record they had and i love that this was my first arsenal game as a kid. Liverpool had this mad record that ifd ian rush scored, liverpool back then did not lose. It was some crazy record
lol, that it ended first time i watched arsenal in 1987, as we beat liverpool after ian rush scored a great goal for liverpool, and it was first time liverpool lost a game when ian rush scored
In those years arsenal brought down liverpool, and liverpool went from winning all the time to not winning league for 3 decades
Alex ferguson never beat liverpoolk with john barnes in those years
It was arsenal in those years
First time liverpool ever had dark clouds over it, was 1989 may, when we did that famous night, what john barnes speaks about here, and makes me laugh he did that.
John barnes played football for sudbury, just down the road from where i grew up in london
lol
How things work out.
John barnes was a bloody good player
Shame his liverpool team never got to play acmilan, as liverpool were banned from europe back then.
Certainly one of the longest comments I've ever read on RUclips. I made it to the end!
@@mattmaciver7981Bravo. You deserve a medal. I just couldn't be arsed 😅
Shilton is 6:3 and using the longest hands ever and Diego is barely 5 ft and using the shortest hands on earth.
Looking back, Wimbledon beating Liverpool was similar in some ways to Coventry beating Tottenham which only happened the previous year. Okay, Wimbledon were bigger underdogs than Coventry, but as Barnesy says they did have decent players.
Very true. I believe Wimbledon had also won at Anfield in a league game prior to that. That Liverpool 87/88 team were incredible though.
@@cppcpp1158 They were amazing that season. Spurs were terrific, too, the previous year, though not quite as consistent in the league, sadly. Where Liverpool had Barnes & Beardsley Spurs had Hoddle & Waddle.
Barnsley with decent players? your joking
You got to hold and give, but do it at the right time......
If John Barnes was on the bench and clearly saw Maradona's "hand of God", what did the linesman see ?
The real Ronaldo (R9) was the closest natural talent to Maradona. They are in a different league to Christiano Ronaldo
You cannot know whether they would have adapted. Maybe, maybe not.
John Barnes got story for days
Ref was the only 1 who didn't see the handball and I still can't contemplate htf Gary L missed that header 😭😭😭
Legend
Put some me respect on El Fenomeno! 🇧🇷
That was a really good listen
Pele did everything first that any player has done now. Pele is number one, but maradons, messi and R9 are the goats , they are all in the same level
Go back and you'll find players did what Pele did before him. There are great players before then who don't get recognition because of the lack of any visual reference. Players like Andrade, Pedernera etc,etc.
@@user-gc8pc3ol6l But were not as great as pele, where they?? Did they win WCups, club tittles or any other tittles ? Until then they are just an imagination with no proof.
@@bepsolofootball in a world scale begins in the 1910's 2 decades later is the first WC many legends never played it then after 1938 two world cups were cancelled 1942 and 1946 other great legends missed their ship there (charro moreno or pedernera) and imagine the soldiers of the countrys in war that would have been football legends sad times
Gazza in his prime beats messi for natural talent
John Barnes..NEXT England Manager 🇬🇧..Only Saying..🎉
D10S
Reporte asked Maradona how does feel to be the greatest
Maradona said the greatest is playing at cardiz his name is Jorge Gonzales - el MÁGICO
Kenny Samson never saw it..
Wow!! That is some breaking news!.
Shilton should have cleaned Maradona out. He was probably too busy thinking about pro's
Keep up, Jason!😂
John should have said UTD beating City was a bigger cup final upset. They finished lower than Wimbledon in the league
British people saying they are not cheaters..is delisuional.. you guys where and still are pirates..
I’m sure Hodges story is different for the shirt exchange.
Sorry. But shilton should've dealt with maradona for the first goal...and secondly?...why was'nt barnes playing from the start?...we deserve everything we get
messi is the number 1,without doubt.
but MARADONA was the best,bacause he came from the poverty.
and MARADONA helped his comrades on the pitch everywhere.
MARADONA made NAPOLI!!!
Cundy "Did you think that."
John Barnes Legend. Pele GOAT.
Great bloke but boy could he talk
Andy Goldstein is a complete clown asking a Genius like John Barnes the questions about all the negative stuff in his career, never kicked a ball,he wouldn't have asked any White Man United players those questions
Typical of Goldstein not doing his homework. Where you on the pitch when Maradona handed the ball
Never understand why people rate a player who cheats
The worst thing that gets overlooked about that obvious handball is the clueless linesman who was right across from it. He was from some football minnow country and shouldn’t have been anywhere near that match and he froze/choked in the moment.
England's defending for Maradonas legitimate goal was abysmal.
Riveting storyteller!
These idiots blaming shilton. The guy handled the ball......it was that simple.
Surprised Maradonna never played for city
She was considered too small, apparently.
@@MisAnnThorpe 🤣🤣🤣🤣my mistake 🫣🤣
siguen dolidos jajaja
Interesting that John Barnes shows such little respect to the Falkland islanders. Calling the islands “Malvinas”
So Pele wasn't naturally gifted??? And how about how much more Pele accomplished than Maradona..
Barnes contributed heavily to bridging England and Jamaican relationships and he was a world class player. Legend!! 🏴🇯🇲🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
I can't believe John Barnes got bullied into saying Maradona and Messi are ahead of Pele. Someone who wins World Cups by scoring with a hand and pumping themselves with drugs???Gimme a break...
They are ahead. Garrincha use to outshine Pele
Yeah I love Pele but he’s not even the best Brazilian let alone the best player ever.
@@cppcpp1158 Yeah, yeah, yeah for some of you to win you have to cheat or lie. Keep coping. We know how that works. Nobody will EVER be better than Pele. I suspect you already that.
@@bekisiphotshili2566 your brain is a bit smooth so I will try to help you.
John Barnes was asked a question, he gave an answer based on his OWN opinion/experience/perspective, not yours or anyone else for that matter.. Hope that helps
@@TribalScan. No. John was bullied to agree with Jason Cundy. He had just finished saying they should be called "best in their eras". He even brought up Stanley Matthews whom he never saw play and wondered why we would be calling anyone the best ever when there are people that played that we, the living today, never saw play. So, pal, yeah, may be smooth but yours is full of hydrogen sulfide---component of a fart. Just in case you can't catch on.
"Hand of God" more like "The Devil's Hand" if you ask me. Maradona was a cheat!
Some how Messi isn't 1 with the drugs that were pumped into him
@@nqobilengema2165messi ungenaphi kulenkulumo?
@@nqobilengema2165 Smoothbrain children with HGH deficiency are given the drug so they can attain their normal height. It hardly affects the talent of Messi.
@@user-gc8pc3ol6l sure buddy, his a drug filled human, that's not "natural" talent mate
"naturally"..."CR7 had to work harder"..what does that even mean in a GOAT debate? Tom Brady does not even have half of the talent of Aaron Rodgers, but he is the GOAT no debate. "Most Naturally gifted" is not the reason players like MJ23 are the GOAT. It is about the performance in the most pressurized situation and the ability to win everywhere they go with different teams. CR7 has dominated 3 leagues and Messi struggled as soon as he left Barca. Then you look at the UCL as the hardest competition, it is CR7 again. I never understood all the hype after WC like Argentina is not one of the greatest nation of football with or without Messi. Now had Messi been Australian and carried that team to victory then the discussion would have been different. Does that mean Haaland could never be considered the GOAT as he may never participate in the WC?
Maradona was an all time great, but never a goat for me. Please, guys. How can we celebrate a man for scoring with his hand, tarnished the sport with cocaine, and abuse his status as a star. My goat are Pele, Zidane, Messi, CR7, Cruff, Weah, Maldini's of the world. They can't be a single goat in football, but there are Goats and all timers.Sorry Mr. BARNES😢