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Ex-Liverpool star John Barnes slept outside train station with homeless on journey to Champions League final

The 55-year-old former winger was disrupted by a flight cancellation.

LIVERPOOL LEGEND JOHN Barnes says he had to sleep outside of a train station in Barcelona with homeless people on his journey to Madrid for the Champions League final.

The 55-year-old travelled to the Spanish capital to see his former side take on Tottenham in the European decider at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.

But the ex-England wingerโ€™s trip from the Greek island Santorini to Spain took much longer than expected after his first flight was cancelled, leading to him spending a few hours lying outside the station before finally making it to Madrid.

โ€œI was with my family in Santorini, I had to be here at 8:30am on Thursday morning,โ€ he told Liverpool Echo.

My flight from Santorini got cancelled, so I then had to fly from Santorini to Athens, from Athens to Barcelona.

โ€œGot to Barcelona 2am in the morning, my train, I had to get a train to Madrid, it was not until 5am, the train station is not open till 4am, from 2am until 4am I was lying on the floor outside the train station with a lot of homeless people before the train station opened.

โ€œThatโ€™s how committed I was to getting here.โ€

Barnes says he was determined to get through his arduous journey to see Jurgen Kloppโ€™s team in action, taking a jibe at some of his fellow former stars who he believes would not have gone to such extreme lengths.

I am not going to mention any names, about other divas who played for Liverpool, my former teammates who would have wanted to be in a five star hotel,โ€ he added.

โ€œI slept on the floor of the train station for three hours, that is how much of a fan I am. I am not going to say who wouldnโ€™t have done itโ€ฆ Ian Rushโ€ฆ But apart from that, that is my commitment to the cause.โ€

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    Jun 1st 2019, 6:47 PM

    How is this newsworthy?

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    Mute Frainc ร“ Broin
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    Jun 1st 2019, 10:26 PM

    @ken: because he is John Barnes, a legend

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    Mute Sean O'Reilly
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    Jun 2nd 2019, 12:04 PM

    @Frainc ร“ Broin: a champion bindipper, too mean to book a hotel and begging food from the homeless. His attempt at making this sound like we should all be like him is pathetic, too mean to go online and check the likes of laterooms.com is typical of the hypocrisy

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    Jun 2nd 2019, 5:05 PM

    @Sean Oโ€™Reilly: Miserly? The biggest miser to ever shit through an arsehole was also banging his brothers wife. Now thatโ€™s a bindipper!

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    Jun 1st 2019, 7:05 PM

    So he spent 2 hours outdoors

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    Jun 1st 2019, 8:54 PM

    Change headline to โ€˜Man waits outside train station for 2 hoursโ€™. Ffs

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    Jun 1st 2019, 6:47 PM

    ah bless him. Iโ€™m sure thousands of arsenal and Chelsea fans were far worse off than him this week.

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    Jun 1st 2019, 11:10 PM

    Barnes no longer realizes how far he is from reality . Heโ€™s on the Marie Antoinette level โ€œ let them eat cakeโ€. Itโ€™s not a reflection on him , itโ€™s just fact

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    Jun 2nd 2019, 11:18 AM

    @Michael Curran: far from reality ?.. Maybe !but itโ€™s NOT a fact that Marie Antoinette said โ€ Let them eat cakeโ€!!

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    Jun 1st 2019, 11:07 PM

    He went to share a sandwich with a homeless guy butt the homeless guy told him to feck off and buy his own.

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    Jun 1st 2019, 9:26 PM

    Oh the inhumanity.

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    Jun 1st 2019, 7:07 PM

    Stuck in Digger lad

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    Jun 2nd 2019, 8:02 AM

    hes an egitโ€ฆโ€ฆ

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