Remembering John’s defiance after the Bob Wooler–bashing episode four years earlier, Barrow might have expected him to dig his heels in and refuse to take back a single word. Instead, he was distraught to think he might have ruined the tour, and desperate to make any amends he could. “He actually put his head in his hands and sobbed. He was saying ‘I’ll do anything…whatever you say. How am I to face the others if this whole tour is called off just because of something I’ve said?’”