BARNETT FEELS HATTERS' HURT.Byline: By ANDY WALKER This article is about the Canadian TV presenter and journalist. For other people of the same name, see Andy Walker (disambiguation). Andy Walker (born July 4, 1967 in Norwich, England) is a Canadian television personality and journalist. LEON Barnett Leon Peter Barnett (born 30 November 1985 in Luton, England) is a professional footballer with West Bromwich Albion in Football League Championship. Although primarily a central defender, he has also played at left back, right back, centre midfield and up front. has revealed that he felt so sorry for relegated Luton Town he wanted to go back and help out the troubled Hatters. The Albion defender, right, was signed from Luton at the beginning of the season for an initial pounds 2.5 million shortly after his hometown club had been relegated from the Championship. And while Barnett has prospered at the Hawthorns, things have continued to go downhill for the Kenilworth Road Kenilworth Road is a stadium in Luton, England which is home to Luton Town F.C., a professional football team in the English Football League One. club after a second successive relegation was confirmed yesterday. The club's plight would has been hard to take for Barnett, 22, who, despite being born in Stevenage, grew up in Luton and came through the ranks at the Hatters' Academy. The highly-rated stopper found himself temporarily out of Tony Mowbray's first-team earlier in the season and Barnett admits that it was during that period that he wished he could have returned to help Luton on the field. "It's quite hard for me to take," said Barnett, who followed the same path to the Hawthorns as ex-Albion skipper Curtis Davies Curtis Eugene Davies (born March 15, 1985 in Leytonstone, London) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender. He currently plays for Aston Villa, on loan from West Bromwich Albion, which after the 2007-08 season, will result in a £9,000,000 permanent . "I thought in the first season when they went into the Championship they did well, then they had to sell a few players and went down, now they are going down into League Two. "At the start of the season when I wasn't playing I was thinking I wanted to go back and help Luton which was obviously impossible at the time. "I do want them to do well but they have to do it for themselves." |
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