Click here for Arsenal FC news and reports

Results 1 to 10 of 48

Thread: Just on the Taylor thing, I'm not sure people realise just how good John Barnes was.

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Well he wasn't half a bad player to find in your youth setup either.

    Of course the almost-certainly apocryphal story when he went to Milan was that the order had been to sign the black guy from Watford and they came back with the wrong black guy.
    It's certainly possible, isn't it.
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  2. #2
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    It's certainly possible, isn't it.
    Kolo / Yaya ?

  3. #3
    Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
    Kolo / Yaya ?
    Kimble/Kumble?
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
    It's certainly possible, isn't it.
    It would certainly explain a lot. Although Luther got the last laugh because John Barnes never had an anarcho-syndicalist writers' collective who actually wrote rather a decent novel about the wars of religion in Early Modern Europe named after him, did he?

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    It would certainly explain a lot. Although Luther got the last laugh because John Barnes never had an anarcho-syndicalist writers' collective who actually wrote rather a decent novel about the wars of religion in Early Modern Europe named after him, did he?
    Neither did Barnes get to sing backing vocals on Bowie's "Young Americans" LP. Well done Luther, imo.
    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •