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John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is an English former professional football player and manager. He currently works as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport.[4] Initially a quick, skillful left winger, he moved to central midfield later in his career. Barnes won two league titles with Liverpool, with whom he also won two cup finals at Wembley. He was also an FA Cup runner-up with Watford, Liverpool and Newcastle United. Barnes earned 79 international caps for England.

Barnes was born and initially raised in Jamaica as the son of a military officer from Trinidad and Tobago and a Jamaican mother. He moved to London, England with his family when he was 12 years old. Barnes joined Watford aged 17 in 1981 before playing 296 competitive games for them scoring 85 goals. He was a Watford 1984 FA Cup Final runner-up. He debuted for England in 1983 and in 1987 joined Liverpool for £900,000. In his 10 seasons there Liverpool won the then top-flight First Division twice and the FA Cup twice. He scored 106 goals in 403 matches. By the time of his last cap in 1995, he had more caps than any other black England player. After two years at Newcastle United, he ended his playing career at Charlton Athletic in 1999.

Honours

Liverpool

• Football League First Division: 1987–88, 1989–90

• FA Cup: 1988–89, 1991–92

• Football League Cup: 1994–95

• FA Charity Shield: 1988, 1989, 1990

Individual

• PFA Players' Player of the Year: 1988

• FWA Footballer of the Year: 1988, 1990

• PFA First Division Team of the Year: 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91

• PFA Team of the Century (1977–1996): 2007

• Member of the Order of the British Empire: 1998

• Inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame: 2005