Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
Barkley's problem is he is just too thick as an individual to harness his physical and to an extent technical attributes to create a top footballer. It'll never be written up that way for obvious reasons but the guy's just fucking dense, visibly so. It sort of leaks off him, like a smell.
It's not football intelligence I'm talking about either, it's the basic human kind. I'd be surprised if his IQ's over 35-40. Normally that doesn't matter at all in a footballer but in his case it does.