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Shaun Barker: ‘It hasn’t been my whole focus and that helped me’

SHAUN Barker never attempted to conceal the fact that he had no burning desire to play football.

Shaun Barker reflects on his life in football
By Chris Dunlavy

HEYDAY: Shaun Barker in action for Derby County
PICTURE: Alamy

SHAUN Barker never attempted to conceal the fact that he had no burning desire to play football.
“I remember when I got offered my first pro contact at Rotherham,” recalls the 42-year-old, who even as a teenager sported the long hair and “naughty” clothes that betrayed his real passion for music and the arts.
“I was actually disappointed in a strange sort of way, I’d been planning to study.
Barker: 'Football was the last thing on my mind'
"I was looking forward ...

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