Barnes stormer

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Four decades before Jude Bellingham, another young talent was bursting on to the scene

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FourFourTwo Magazine

02 March, 2023

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Big dan big year

The room erupts. Not with cheers, but laughter. There are around 400 people at Gateshead’s Hilton Hotel, including Dan Burn, and a joke has just been cracked on the microphone at the defender’s expens

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At 16, a national newspaper front page said i was on it wasn’t true. it changed the course of my life

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi

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“i was crying. my wife was crying. we’ve been through a lot”

J ack Wilshere is such a smiling character that it’s occasionally easy to forget how much of a competitor he is. Short in stature but not willpower, Wilshere was training alongside Thierry Henry at 14

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“my kids still bring up the rabona fail… i did it loads in my career, and i’d try it again today!”

You were subbed on and off in 11 minutes on your Blackburn debut, then scored the winning penalty in a League Cup tie in your second game. That must have been a whirlwind? Blackburn are my hometown cl

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So, what did you do in the first week of your job, guys?

You don’t usually join Chelsea halfway through a Club World Cup. And you definitely don’t normally land at the tournament, lace up your boots, then immediately win the thing. Joao Pedro, apparently, d