John Barnes on Liverpool culture shock & what really went on at Celtic | The Robbie Fowler Podcast 

John Barnes is the reason I began supporting Liverpool as a kid. Great great player.

John 'Digger' Barnes..My childhood footballing hero and still remains so to this day..YNWA

The 1987-88 team was so good. McMahon, Houghton, Beardsley, Aldridge, Johnston, Barnes, just an amazing side.

John Barnes, a hero of mine, even now off the pitch. A humble intelligent gentleman with class and talent.

John Barnes was my icon here in Cork Ireland. I played left wing for primary school and I used to pretend to be John Barnes. What a legend and what a player.

Love this man. What a player. Such a shame his prime years were when Liverpool couldn’t compete in Europe.

Shows how money completely runs football, John Barnes always has been one of the more knowledgable men in football, but doesn’t have the important ingredient , the backing. Top man John Barnes.

As a left-footed kid supporting Liverpool in the late 80s and early 90s these two were absolute idols for me. Great to hear them talking about old times.

The best player I personally have ever seen as a 41 year old Liverpool fan !!

Man Utd fan here I’ve seen John since his Watford days and can’t praise him enough what a player he took so much racist abuse and handled it with such dignity and strength also I always knew how disciplined he was as he mentions regarding doing whats right for the team especially with England he alway tracked back and played in the system he never went off on glory runs left right and centre anyway this channel is superb as the player featured are from my era so dont care if it’s our biggest rivals channel there’s a lack of quality podcasts out there

John Barnes was my football idol when I was a teenager. My favourite player and he was such a special player, he could get past players, great football brain, fantastic pass and could score every type of goal. To me if he was playing, the team would win. He stood out and that's in a team with footballing geniuses.

I was thinking to myself last week after watching the Ian Rush podcast wouldn't it be great to hear from John Barnes! What a player John was too...he has them skills alright

Brilliant, Fantastic Memories of LFC in the late 80s and 90s, King Kenny, Mr Moran, Mr Evens running ANFIELD and winning everything, what a Team this was, We Thank The King for giving us John Barnes, defo The Kings' greatest signing! YNWA John!

Respect to John Barnes. He could do it slow, or fast, but he could get to the line. He did it at the right time. You could catch him if you can, but he was the England man.

Spot on analysis by Barnes of Liverpool's difficulties this season. He has more understanding than most the so called pundits inflicted on us by the media.

Would like to see some interviews with ex players you rarely see interviewed like Jimmy Case, Mike Hooper, Gary Gillespie, Barry Venison, Mark Walters, David Johnson, Joey Jones, Sammy Lee, Kevin MacDonald, Steve McMahon, Rob Jones, Steve Finnan, Peter Beardsley, Paul Stewart, Dean Saunders, Jari Litmanen, Terry Mac, Lawrenson, Hanson, etc.. Cheers.

the legend! the reason i started watching football. still my hero to this day!! John Barnes, wa gwaan brother

This man talks so much sense. I cannot believe that he isn't more prominent in broadcasting or management.

Barnes my Favourite Liverpool player ever. He was my hero as a kid. What a player he was. Great memories. Thanks John Digger Barnes

Wish you were managing a club, your understanding of what it takes, your optimism and your logical way of thinking are infectious and I'm sure there are many clubs that could use catching this kind of infection.

As a left footed left winger growing up in Manchester in the 80's I was desperate for United to sign Barnsey, he oozed class and was so exciting to watch at Watford and I was gutted when he signed for Liverpool! He was untouchable in his first few years at Liverpool and until he got that horrible injury and would be worth millions in today's market!

Everyone likes John Barnes, even Man U supporters!

Really open, insightful and interesting interview. Very sad that Barnesy never given the chance to contribute more at managerial level and I think we all know why :(

Barnesy proper Gent, classy, a good man. I remember 4 years old during 1990, in the Garden playing footy with Dad, he was Gazza and I'd be Bansey. Thanks for the golden memories John and cheers Robbie for bringing him on. A real legend,

I remember going to Anfield and watching John Barmes play as a teenager. I had watched Dalglish play when I was a kid too. And John was on a par skill wise with Kenny. That's the best compliment I can give to Digger.

My childhood hero... What a legend.. John Barnes.. legendary player! The reason I wore Diadora boots...

this is the one I've been waiting for, my hero used to watch him at Watford, then watched him at Liverpool

JB is spot on about the press in Scotland 👍 it's pretty common knowledge they've always had an anti celtic/Irish Catholic (Pro-Rangers) agenda and the propaganda spreads to the fans to cause unrest. John experienced it first hand back in the day and Neil Lennon has experienced it in the past few months more than any other manager in Scottish football history.. No coincidence he's an Irish Catholic....

Barnsey's a legend!! Thanks guys - great podcast, keep 'em coming!!!

Love this podcast man, lockdown been shit this time and all these have been great. Hope you can carry this on for a long time.

Boss stream Robbie. Fantastic insight from the Big Man. Best wishes Digger. 96 ❤ YNWA

JOHN BARNES a great person, human being , player, manager, Press are shite

John Barnes was a lot better than Sadio Mane.

Between 87 an 89 superb player!!

Wonderful stuff from John . Great player , great man, very interesting to hear him talking about football. Talks almost as good a game as he played! Since Jimmy Greaves, and before Stevie G , my all time favourite player. I still like watch clips of him playing.

An incredibly skillful and dynamic player who could run rings around an opposition. Hated the bugger, but only because he didn't play in my team. From a Man Utd supporter..

My idol growing up. 1988/89/90 seasons he was head and shoulders above everyone. Reminded me of how Henry made professional players look like non league players, he was in the same category. He was a delight to watch. He could have peeled the banana thrown at him with his left foot in that infamous incident.

Had the pleasure of meeting john barnes a true lfc legend, the main reason why i supported liverpool as a kid. Great interview.

Digger What a man !! You'll never walk alone

John's story about Henrik Larsson and Paul Lambert getting injured is similar to Liverpool's situation with Virgil and Jordan.

Great podcast John Barnes was a fantastic player for Liverpool

Amazing player. shame we wasn't in Europe to play that Milan side. Great show 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Brilliant analysis by Barnes on our current problems and being stuck between 2 ways of playing!

Barnes you legend 🙌

These are brilliant - Thank you so much.

A disgrace that he did not get more chances at management in England. Highly intelligent and breaths football.

Two of my favourite players and a great episode 👍🏾

Barnes is a very engaging character and strong personality. Great to listen to.

John Barnes. Favourite player of all time. I could literally listen to him all day.

Man utd fan here loving the podcasts Robbie keep them coming....

Great interviews the stories are brilliant John Barnes in his prime was superb 👍 LFC

Great Podcast 🏆 Watched all of them

43:50 JB on his typically shocking treatment by the celtic fans and board. Your welcome bhoys

John Barnes needs to do punditry. Great insights.

Thanks Robbie....really enjoying these. #10 Barnes one of the best around. Respect 🇧🇧

Just landed at this Podcast what a treat 👌

There is only one john barnes a true Lfc legend magic number 10 what a top bloke YNWA🔥96🔥

It's hard listening to Barnes because he speaks so fast....he speaks as fast as he used to run down the wing....what a player he was. I remember watching him when I was 10 years old at Anfield against Southampton.....brilliant.

Let's have it!

Im a united fan but have to give credit where its due, robbie n john barnes both class act's.

Excellent podcast. Nice work 👍

The Man The Myth The Legend! Hero of The Kop, Legend of ANFIELD! John Barnes LFC Forever YNWA!

Great interview and insight from a Marvelous footballer...Was given a rough deal at Celtic for sure.

Karanka Out , Barnes in. Wouldn't do any worse in our situation. Robbie's right, Barnes should still be involved in football, this podcast just shows what a great man he is too!

Very interesting comment from Barnes regards Graham Taylor.. Enlightening...

Brilliant episode

He is a great man as well as player. Love to the guy.

Magic player.

Goodness, this is so educational :-)

Why have all other vids on channel gone private?

The best LFC player I've ever seen in my lifetime.

I must add, the managers and coaches back then sounded great, players as well as managers seemed to take the piss a lot yet still do great quality work.

These podcasts are legendary

I wish I owned a club, Digger would be my first port of call for the gaffers job. 😆 Complete trust & backing, if we lose 20 on the spin I'd back him to get us out the sh*t 😆 Legend

The attitude "oh, it's john barnes, we should win" was not one the fans had at celtic. It was putely john barnes' attitude. His tome at celtic was indeed shirt but it was characterised by incompetence, pretentiousness and narcissism on his part. He was a rookie coach with no qualifications for the job appointed on the sole basis of nepotism from dalglish. I remember at tynecastle barnes persisted with his 4-2-2-2 system he saw brazil even though it was not working. The players themselves changed it and turned around the game. Barnes lost the dressing room and fans because he was not a good manager, which calls fir more than soundbites. With barnes gone, martin o'neill came in and won the treble. "If i go to a club, i would have to be number one". With his recird thos attitude shows why he failed at cektic. He is a man convinced of his own genius, but a legend only in his own lunchtime. He was a great player, bit doed not have any if the attrubutrs to be a good manager, in attitude, temperament, knowlege, people skills or seeing the big picture. It is little wonder he has not made it as a manager anywhere.

The best Liverpool team we ever had. Barnes, Beardsley, Houghton, Aldridge and the list goes on. 🤗🤗

Has the joey Barton interview been removed I was half way through. what happened?

Barnes majestic in the ‘wing back‘ chair there la. ✨💫

John Barnes what a legend

My hero of LFC started with Barnes, then God, the Gerrard... all brilliant men, humble, intelligence and generous in every sense

I remember when Barnes bought Raphael "Schite" for 5 million of the strength of a vhs tape demo.

John Barnes is class man great guy

By God digger was 💯 percent accurate about his analysis of Liverpool s style and what was required going forward ,as time has proven.. Barnes was a brilliant player so exciting and creative

Absolutely unbelievable he hit the nail on the head character focus on how the play acts if his attitude is right he's going to be good barnes is great

John Barnes the best Liverpool player world class England should have built the team around him. He was Englands Maradona He had the skill and brain to play at the highest level

Nice to see John without DVDs behind him named Cumhungry Guzzle Girls XXIX and Soapy Tatwink Express XVII, like the ones he had behind him on Sky Sports News. That really put me off John, and he'd been my idol since he masterminded Celtic to a 3-1 defeat at home to a part-time Highland XI and mapped out Tranmere's route to the FA Cup Preliminary Qualifying Round. (In all seriousness, Barnes at Watford and early Liverpool - just wow)

John Barnes; The first player I've ever seen to wear tights in English football.

Superb again

My favourite player of all time. Would pretend to be him on the playground in the school days

Need to see one of these with Big Jan

John Barnes 900k from Watford, bargain nowadays lol.

My all time GOAT 🇯🇲

Unbelievably, England today still has a ''quality player/flair football'' problem even though England has quality players. As John and Robbie eluded, this problem happened then, and it still continues. Regarding Liverpool in the 1980s, that is one of the all time great teams in the game's history, the football was superb.

Robbie Fowler, the Rocky Balboa of Football!

Racism was prevalent In the 90s still. Remembering a game at Old Trafford where a black player tackled digger Barnes,and the United player got racially abused by my mate.. think that was first time I realised how I had to rethink my 80s upbringing

Barnes was the rolls royce on the left, glided past defenders with apparent ease. I agreed with Rodney Marsh's view on Robbie. If only he wore boots in his actual size 🙃

john barnes is best ive seen on this show by a mile, celtic were idiots to sack such a quick guy

Shit at Celtic Out of his depth Thought his reputation would get him through DISASTER

On the wirral. Best place to be. Was lucky enough to interview Bruce, Roy and Phil. Oh as well as Aldo.

One of the best players I've ever seen