So the year was 1987 and the Swedish star Anders Limpar managed to get himself a trial at Liverpool. He was actually impressing and the club wanted to sign him due to good perfomances on trainings. However, during this time, the rules said that he as a Swede needs atleast 10 international caps to sign a contract with the club.
Liverpool had just sold their best striker Ian Rush to Juventus and brought in John Barnes. He was the first black player playing for Liverpool FC and was supposed to replace the superstar, Ian Rush. Kenny Dalglish was also getting to his old ages as a player-manager. Together with Barnes came also Beardsley and Aldridge. To replace a godly striker-duo was obviously a very hard task.
The tv-show "Dallas" was popular during this time. One of the main characters was called Digger Barnes. He quickily settled in to the team and got the nickname from the character, Digger Barnes.
So Anders Limpar arrived to training and heard his nickname. Obviously he wanted to settle in aswell and started to call them by nicknames aswell.
"N*gger, pass the ball! I'm right here, n*gger!"
Shocking. John Barnes runs quickly up to Limpar and asks what the fuck he's saying to him.
"But that's what they call you?" says Limpar
Alan Hansen goes inbetween the players and explains.
"It's Digger. With D"
It all ends up well for every part and the whole team can't hold for laugh.
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