Best quotes by John Barnes on Football
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‟ Football is a socialist sport. Financially, some may receive more rewards than others but, from a footballing perspective, for 90 minutes, regardless of whether you are Lionel Messi or the substitute right-back for Argentina, you are all working to the same end.
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‟ I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.
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‟ I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.
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‟ When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field. But all racists have to do is keep their mouth shut for 90 minutes and they're fine.
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‟ If every racist who came to football was silenced, football stadiums would still be full of racists. Racism is everywhere in our society, it is inside every one of us.
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‟ You love football because of the game, not because of some idiot who is going to shout at your from across the street.
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‟ The truth is that those at the top of British football do not care about getting rid of racism, they just don't want to hear it or see it.
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‟ As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.
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‟ Before we are footballers or fans, we are ordinary members of society. We are doctors, lawyers, milkmen, postmen, unemployed people, students... So why are they called racist football fans? Are they just racist for the 90 minutes of a match, when the other six days a week they're not?
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