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Old 13th June 2019, 12.12:59   #449-0 (permalink)
jackwilliams
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Originally Posted by BillEBadass View Post
I too thought that Ken Barnes was a great player (the best uncapped half back in Britain).
As a manager he also won us promotion - however there was a downside, after a couple of youth trial games and training sessions he pulled me to one side and said, 'you're a grammar school boy aren't you - concentrate on your studies as you'll never make a footballer'. I was pretty upset but I knew he was right.

I did qualify as an FA Coach in 1971, one of the youngest in Britain at that time.
Ken Barnes, a super player, was not great with young lads in my opinion. I also trained a couple of times in midweek on the main pitch with the Youth squad at Wrexham. Not much feedback. Maybe it was the Grammar school boy bit he did not like or maybe I just was not good enough. I signed for Chester a couple of years later!
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