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Former Bristol City and Blackburn defender Bradley Orr shares his football memories

First match?
I think it was the famous Liverpool game against Nottingham Forest when they beat them 5-0 in 1988 and John Barnes scored that outrageous goal. That is the professional game I can remember. We used to go to Anfield quite a lot, but my dad played Non- League football so it meant we could only really go in midweek.
Football hero?
That was John Barnes (below), definitely. At the time he was one of, if not the best, players in the league and even Europe. He used to skip past defenders and score g...

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