according to the BBC. Knee injury.
BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | R | Rotherham | Injured Barker forced to retire
BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | R | Rotherham | Injured Barker forced to retire
Didn't he come and watch us at a Northern Away game a few years back as well?
Also remember the Bear at his Gillingham Days. Didn’t we get him from Lindfield? Also he couldn’t score a goal for toffee at the start of his period with us. However, once he scored that first he went on a roll.
Maybe Craig Davies will prove similar?
His antics - I remember a great goal up at Peterborough - were a real highlight during a fairly grim time. Great player, great attitude.
Agreed, they were indeed DESPARATE times and whilst Barker was no Zamora he was good for us then. I'm not surprised he's got 'cult' status, we were so shit then that there are people who STILL seriously think that Jeff Minton was a decent player simply because he stood out in a crap team. I think he thought he was good as well, but most people realised the truth when he went to Port Vale and sunk without trace.He may not be a legend in the Zamora/Ward sense but it was such a desperate time that we needed somebody with the right attitude and a bit of drive to help drag us out of the mire. Had he not moved north he would have been another OGH i'm sure.
I used to quite like him but it's a bit puke inspiring to see how he is now remembered as some sort of legend as the Albion fans at Gillingham gave him SHIT initially and I remember very clearly the way he want from looking really chuffed to a bit hangdog as the ironic pisstaking chant went out "Barker's scored a goal he's scored a goal etc" when he eventually broke his duck.
He did become a bit of a cult hero after that due to his workrate and the fact that he left to be near his ill father.
No way is he the legend that some would have us believe now though