Player Review: Barry Horne 

Barry Horne’s career started off his career at the Welsh team Rhyl for a little bit before moving to Wrexham.

He spent his first three years of his professional career at the club racking up over 100 appearances and is notably famous for Wrexham due to even being a Fourth Division team they won the Welsh Cup and went into the European Cup-Winners’ Cup.

They won 1-0 in the first leg against Porto and the second leg Wrexham held out to a 4-3 defeat though with away goals they went through due to the last goal being scored by Barry Horne, though eventually knocked out by Roma in the second leg.

In between the five years before the Premier League being created he had spells at Portsmouth and rivals Southampton before his crucial spell at Everton.

Barry Horne joined Everton and he was the first player to score for Everton in the Premier League in a 1-1 draw to Sheffield Wednesday.

He also was part of Everton winning the 1995 FA Cup with a 1-0 win against Manchester Utd.

After his four year spell at Everton he moved to six different teams in the next five years including Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Kidderminster Harriers, Walsall and ending his football club career in Belper Town.

Starting in 1987 his Welsh national career against Denmark. He had 59 caps for Wales which ended in 1997 winning 2-1 against Belgium at the Cardiff Arms Park.

He also took over the directing job of Wrexham in 2011 on a volunteer basis. He was a director at the club until he stepped down in 2016.

Barry Horne’s career as a midfielder was a superb career winning trophies playing for his nation and being a part of crucial points for the history of the football teams he played under.