27 Apr 2018 19:24:54
I see John Barnes is still creating mayhem with defences, with his new position working for western power in Wednesbury Sandwell


YNWA.

1.) 27 Apr 2018
27 Apr 2018 21:13:31
Is he working as a digger?

{Ed025's Note - nice one bardzo..

2.) 27 Apr 2018
27 Apr 2018 21:44:44
Think in the present day we should stop using Barnes’ nickname tbh.

{Ed025's Note - why would that be agger?, all his team mates used to call him that and its a term of affection, dont get embroiled in this PC bullshit where you cant open your mouth without offending someone mate...its getting beyond a joke..

3.) 27 Apr 2018
27 Apr 2018 23:49:53
I think people are just misinformed about the origin of the nickname and assume it to be offensive. Pretty much everyone I’ve met with the surname Barnes has been known as Digger at some point. Check your US soaps of the early ‘80’s.

{Ed001's Note - exactly mate, he was named after the guy from Dallas. Though admittedly naming someone after a Texan in Liverpool could be considered offensive as Texan is an insult.}

4.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 00:21:19
Weren’t Hicks and (or) Gillett Texan? If they were, then perhaps being Texan is offensive after all! 😂.

{Ed0333's Note - I just got back from Texas. Wow they have big food portions out there.

5.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 00:21:19
Weren’t Hicks and (or) Gillett Texan? If they were, then perhaps being Texan is offensive after all! 😂.

6.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 00:40:13
Blimey! I'll monitor my footballer nickname power line erector jokes from now on. I'd been saving that one up as well.

7.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 00:56:11
Everything’s bigger in Texas, they say. Including arterial clots!

{Ed0333's Note - I ordered a porterhouse steak and I’m not joking I thought they bought the whole cow. I had to finish it because my Mrs would have thought I was a pussy, it wasn’t even that tasty!

8.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 01:14:01
Love it ed333. A real man rolls home from the steakhouse, dripping with the meat sweats 😂.

9.) 28 Apr 2018
27 Apr 2018 22:11:40
Spot on Ed

Just trying to lighten the mood, then

I get strangulised by a black lace.

It's nice to know there are no flies on your budgie smugglers Mr025


YNWA.

{Ed025's Note - that depends on how often i change them mick.. :)

10.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 11:43:33
Not to challenge Ed's on where the digger nickname came from, I actually recall a John Barnes interview when the Dallas Character came up and Barnes said it was nothing to do with Dallas, more to do with his full name being John Charles Bryan Barnes. JCB which is a name for a Digger in the building industry. So that's why he was called Digger.

{Ed001's Note - you are right, I had forgotten that. I apologise, I made an error. I misremembered him as saying it was Digger after the Dallas character rather than the JCB thing, but I checked and your memory is much better than mine.}

11.) 28 Apr 2018
28 Apr 2018 13:35:04
No problem Ed. I use to think it was Dallas Character myself till I saw that interview. I thought I would let posters know the true origins of his nickname. And Ed no need to apologise mate.

{Ed001's Note - there is when I am wrong mate. The whole point is to give out correct info.}