Everyone got their breath back? The final whistle blew almost 24 hours ago and I can't seem to shake this game out of my mind. The image of Mehdi Ballouchy's fantastic cross onto Conor Casey's outstretched boot in the final minutes of the game remains largely fixed. It was not that the defenses were so poor on both sides. Click to continue reading...

Former Liverpool player John Barnes feels his former side are showing championship-winning credentials so far this season.

Pool have not set the world alight with their standard of play so far this season, but results are going their way with recent victories picked up against Manchester United and Marseille. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Benitez wasted no time in acknowledging the importance of his Argentine midfielder Javier Mascherano at the weekend after a superb performance against arch-rivals Manchester United. However, he was not alone in praise as the New Football Pools Pundits and Liverpool legends John Barnes and Alan Hansen joined in with the plaudits. Click to continue reading...

Former Liverpool and England star John Barnes was named Wednesday as the new manager of Jamaica. The move comes after the dismissal of Brazilian Rene Simoes as the Jamaica Football Federation's technical director as a result of the team losing two World Cup qualifiers in four days—against Mexico and Honduras. Click to continue reading...

LIVERPOOL legend John Barnes will take over as Jamaican national team coach on November 1 - with the task of guiding the tiny nation to the World Cup finals.

Barnes, whose only experience of coaching was a stint at Celtic from June 1999 to February 2000, has signed a one-year contract.

Born in Jamaica he was the unanimous choice of the Jamaican Football Federation. Click to continue reading...

It says a lot about the UEFA Champions League and a lot more about the global stature of Manchester United that for many in Los Angeles the most important game of the week does not involve the Galaxy or Chivas USA, but today's 11:30 a.m. game on ESPN2 that has the Red Devils facing Jozy Altidore's Spanish team Villareal.

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So who is this man pretending to be a seal? It is none other than Liverpool legend John Barnes, who has just been hired to take over as manager of the Jamaican national team.

Barnes takes over for fired head coach Rene Simoes, who presided over a pair of World Cup qualifying losses to Mexico and Honduras last week.

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Brezilyalı Rene Simoes'ın kovulduğu Jamaika Milli Takımı'nın başına John Barnes getirildi. Ian Rush, Beardsley, Grobelarli Liverpool'da yer almış, bizi 80lerde ancak TRT'den izleyebildiğimiz maçlarda TV karşısına zımpalamıştı. Çocukluğumuzun uzaktaki kahramanlarından biriydi. İngilizler topu sağ ya da sol bek marifeti ile ileride elleri havadaki, yüksek toplara hakim santraforlara salladığı yıllarda, tekniği ile onu fark etmemek mümkün değildi. Click to continue reading...

There will be a backlash against rich owners ( with questionable assets) with no previous connection looking to taking over clubs purely for financial gain and leaving their supporters with no voice.

Efforts like ShareLiverpoolFC, the co-operative venture now have a better chance of succeeding when heavy hitters like Andy Burnham and John Barnes throw their weight behind a worthy cause.

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As far as I'm aware there aren't that many football podcasts, certainly not a lot of good ones. The one that comes out of the BBC World Football Phone-In tends to be very good whilst the ones that are done by the Times and the Guardian have their good moments but far too often try too hard to be funny. Click to continue reading...

Former England winger John Barnes has warned fans and media alike not to heap pressure on Theo Walcott after the youngster's superb hat-trick display against Croatia last night. Walcott stole the show, orchestrating England's 4-1 victory - their best result for seven years and compounding Croatia to their first competitive defeat on home soil Barnes recognises [. Click to continue reading...

The lifelong Red has spent the last year researching and writing a book on the subject.

The Asian Liverbird, which was commissioned by the club after an approach by Bhana, explores how immigrants from Asia came to choose LFC upon arriving in England in the Sixties and Seventies – and why, generations later, their children and grandchildren are still wearing red. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool have won their opening two premiership games for the first time in a staggering 14 years. Yes, you read that right: 14 years.

The last time the club achieved this seemingly rare feat was back in the 1994-95 season. Roy Evans was at the helm; club legends John Barnes, Jan Molby and Ian Rush were still going strong; Phil Babb and Neil Ruddock were in defence (*shudder*); Kenny Dalglish managed Blackburn to an improbable Premiership triumph and Robbie Fowler scored 31 goals in all competitions. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's roll-call of magnificent number sevens includes legends like Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish and Peter Beardsley - and Robbie Keane is determined to add his name to that list.

Ever since Keegan arrived at Anfield in the 1970s, Liverpool have enjoyed their most successful periods when the number seven shirt has been filled by a dynamic playmaker capable of raising the team's play to a higher level. Click to continue reading...

Ian Rush's ability in front of goal was unparalleled, argues John Barnes. Click to continue reading...

...King Kenny Dalglish. Yes, you voted the King, with 29% of the vote, the most exciting player in our long and illustrious history, beating John Barnes (21% of the vote) and Steven Gerrard (17% of the vote) into second and... Click to continue reading...

During Paul Ince's rise to the rarefied heights of the Premier League, John Barnes has been struggling to even get recognition in the foothills of the game.

Ince became the top flight's first black English manager when he was appointed as Mark Hughes' successor at Blackburn on Sunday.

Barnes, on the other hand, has been applying for vacancies in the lower leagues without success. Click to continue reading...

For Reds of a certain generation, those who like me grew up in the eighties and who are too young to really remember Kenny Dalglish as a player, there will always be one true legend: John Charles Bryan Barnes. A legend that was born twenty one years ago when he signed from Watford for £900,000.
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It appears Momo Sissoko's days at Liverpool are numbered. The 23-year-old lashed out in frustration after being omitted from the traveling squad to face Marseilles today. Being that his family is from France and would have a rare chance to see him play, the defensive midfielder felt he should have at least been included. Click to continue reading...

Sounds like the worst B-movie ever made, huh? Well, it's worse than that. Those three are part of the 14 contestants for BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing for their upcoming fall season. Other contestants include snooker legend Willie Thorne, former Scottish rugby star Kenny Logan, a couple of former Eastenders actors, actor Brian Capron, who played a serial killer on Coronation Street, and Rod Stewart's current spouse, Penny Lancaster. Click to continue reading...

Seeing is believing.

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- Let me first say that it would not bother me even for a second if Gerrard 'retired' from international play. Yes, I know that would never happen, since Stevie-G loves his country nearly as much as he loves his club, but one can dream, can't they? At least I hope so. Anyhow, it looks as if England boss Steve McClown has finally seen the light and decided to give Gerrard the kind of freedom alloted him at LFC. Click to continue reading...