John Barnes has declared it was \u2018special\u2019 to play against Diego Maradona\u2026 despite the Argentina legend knocking England out of the 1986 World Cup.<\/p>\n
The ex-Three Lions star came on as a second half substitute in the quarter-final clash against the South American nation.<\/p>\n
AFPMaradona\u2019s double knocked England out of the World Cup in 1986[\/caption]<\/p>\n
Three Lions icon Barnes represented England at the 1986 World Cup under Bobby Robson\u2019s tutelageRex<\/p>\n
Barnes made an instant impact just seven minutes after coming on with Gary Lineker turning in his cross to pull a goal back for Bobby Robson\u2019s side… John Barnes has declared it was \u2018special\u2019 to play against Diego Maradona\u2026 despite the Argentina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a.jpg",1500,1000,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a.jpg",1500,1000,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a.jpg",1500,1000,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12472-just-to-be-on-the-pitch-with-him-was-special-england-legend-john-barnes-reveals-it-was-an-honour-to-play-against-diego-maradona-as-he-declares-world-cup-in-qatar-will-be-a-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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