Graeme Souness on Liverpool, Scotland and his life in football

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6 жыл бұрын

The former Liverpool and Scotland captain talks to Sarah Brett and Colin Paterson about his near five decade long career in football.
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@jimboyd1277 2 жыл бұрын

The interviewers are covertly hostile of him. Neither of them could do the business. He rises above them and politely engages with them. Good interview at the end of the day. The great aggressor handles an aggressive interview well.

@jasoncosh5623 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this guy. Just a plain speaking Scotsman shooting from the hip and saying it as he sees it... And one helluva player in his day!

@billybigtime2808 3 жыл бұрын

Man Utd fan here, He totally down plays his own ability as a player yes he was hard as fuck and a enforcer but he was also a very creative player his passing range was unreal as was his long range shooting as well as the volleys and he dictated the play and tempo as well it actually winds me up when people gloss over his ability.

@robharding1957 6 жыл бұрын

Grahame did a cracking job at Blackburn, to beat spurs in the league cup final, Grahame instilled great belief in his team, and they went out and won it.

@simonforrest2522 5 жыл бұрын

When i first started watching Liverpool he was bossing our midfield... This guy made opponents shit themselves..Literally... Hard as a brick outhouse but with the passing range of a complete maestro and a thunderbolt of a right peg.. 5 leagues and 3 Europeans cups...Enough said.. ABSOLUTE GENERAL..YNWA

@joebloggs416 4 жыл бұрын

Simon Forrest and first class bell end

@shanet5604 4 жыл бұрын

Joe Bloggs Why do you say that ??

@hughjanus900 6 жыл бұрын

For me the greatest Liverpool midfield general ever

@barrybeanstain 4 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@markroberts868 6 жыл бұрын

I am a rangers fan and I loved souness when he was there,and any club would have wanted him at their club,celtic included.

@markroberts868 6 жыл бұрын

Ed Cheers mate, I'm a big gers fan.fair point.WATP.

@edivimaro1975 6 жыл бұрын

Disagree, a clogger and his name ryhmes with PENIS. More the type of player who would play for Ragers v1.0 and v2.0

@The_Prophet... 4 жыл бұрын

Geez peace he was a thug and no one wanted him near Celtic ffs...Stupid Harry Dunn

@chickenoriental1210 3 жыл бұрын

As a player... manager hell no

@daadredmerseysidelfc2870 4 жыл бұрын

Graeme Souness our legend forever love you long live legend

@kingarthurusatenniscoach1415 4 жыл бұрын

In those days it was a physical game, and Souness was a great passer and leadership

@SMC01ful 6 жыл бұрын

I don't give a toss, but when he was playing for Liverpool he was the best defensive mid-fielder in the game. He could do everything, he was skillful and hard as nails. End of story, how he never won the European Footballer of the year now the Bollocks de yawn once is a tribute to UEFA's snobbery.

@100geemo78 6 жыл бұрын

I do agree but an even bigger travesty was the fact that Dalglish never won the European Footballer of the Year. He was only nominated once - bloody out of order !!

@SMC01ful 6 жыл бұрын

I agree completely with you. Funny, Keegan won it twice when he moved to Hamburg. FFS, he never had a shit show at Liverpool. Pisses me off.

@coachhbosoccer 5 жыл бұрын

Two reasons, defensive players get less glamour, and he was Scottish, even though Dalglish was recognized.

@philipritson8821 5 жыл бұрын

Renoir with a razor blade.

@stephenmacdonald76 5 жыл бұрын

@@philipritson8821 great quote

@bmccabe1767 3 жыл бұрын

Kennedy, souness, McDermott, case, imagine facing that midfield . No pressure.

@thesnickeringhound2549 3 жыл бұрын

Such a complete player, just a shame he couldn't lead Scotland to greater heights. Fair enough it's a small country, but with the players they had then it was within reach. And wish he'd been given the Scotland job in 2008, certainly couldn't have done any worse than George Burley.

@thomasjones2415 5 жыл бұрын

Graeme Souness Is A Rangers Liverpool And Scotland Legend, I Love This Man,

@colingeddes2172 3 жыл бұрын

Im not a rangers or liverpool fan, but souness along with bryan robson was the best midfielder of his generation, brilliant player.

@barblessable 5 жыл бұрын

yes he could tackle and win the ball, but he was a terrific passer of the ball and scored goals.

@CaminoAir 6 жыл бұрын

Irish Liverpool fan here. I know Sousness has done some questionable things (that's polite), but I always enjoy listening to him and he strikes me as honest and very thoughtful. Hugely important player for Liverpool and he might not have got the awards recognition for that, but the fans were never in doubt about it.

@darrenbrogan5328 3 жыл бұрын

What questionable things

@Div4Dante 6 жыл бұрын

Living legend.

@seachtaine 5 жыл бұрын

The master

@barrybeanstain 4 жыл бұрын

In his own head and at the Kop. Everyone else thinks he's an old twat with a Man United hang-up.

@mmeister7 6 жыл бұрын

Was a really good interview. Im going to buy the book.

@jammasterj13 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant player!!! Who else can say they played with , for and against the best of the best? Zico, Laudrup, Platini, Dr Socrates and the 82/86 brasil teams, Baresi, Passarella, Maradona etc. Now they could play and mix it up to. Not like todays fairycakes rolling around like they'd been shot by a sniper!!! Yes you Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar🙈. And he's highly intelligent and a diamond geezer!!! The kind of man who would scare the Grim Reaper away😂. Legend in any generation!!! I love how Kenny would joke with him and he would just grin and roll his eyes, so funny, like brothers from the sitcom Bread😁..Real love there for sure😎..YNWA

@jamesvickers5998 Жыл бұрын

Annoys me when people talk about his aggression. Was the best midfielder in europe for two or three years.

@coachhbosoccer 5 жыл бұрын

A VERY underrated player in his day.

@barrybeanstain 4 жыл бұрын

And very over-rated as a pundit now.

@tramlad2 4 жыл бұрын

Get yourself back to Rangers and help Stevie out, the buzz the fans will get would be amazing , somewhere at the club there must be a place. Amazing man, gave Rangers fans their pride back, Legend

@colinmitchell183 6 жыл бұрын

Class

@HandleGF 2 жыл бұрын

He nearly killed a Romanian player with an over the top tackle in his Rangers days. It put the sneaky breaking of a Romanian jaw in his Liverpool days in the ha'penny place.

@bigbaz8314 3 жыл бұрын

how can you introduce Souness without mentioning he managed Glasgow Rangers? edit: great interview non the less

@greigallan5845 5 жыл бұрын

The worst tackle the interviewer refers to wasn't against Aberdeen but rather Steaua Bucharest.

@HandleGF 2 жыл бұрын

I presume that was the lad he nearly killed. The worst 'tackle' I've ever seen.

@mattsmiddy40 5 жыл бұрын

I loved his strutting arrogance, Scottish players now are meek little mice.

@botany500kojak 5 жыл бұрын

Liverpool's left back - Robertson puts that argument to bed.

@simonsmith740 Жыл бұрын

Sells himself short . Helluva player. Equally as competent creating as destroying . Probably had the most unnerving Paddington Bear staire

@thegamingda7404 5 жыл бұрын

Celtic fan here well said about todays players showing the men & woman whos pays to watch them bit more respect

@kingkenny334 5 жыл бұрын

LEGEND ⚽️❤️🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

@SMC01ful 6 жыл бұрын

Christ, he's that hard they have to give him his own private booth to do the interview. They probably fed him raw meat. Gerrard and Souness in the middle phew what a combination.

@MisAnnThorpe 5 жыл бұрын

I think Souness and Xabi Alonso would have been an even more formidable pairing. I still can't believe that Benitez let him go!

@eddiepower3876 5 жыл бұрын

@@MisAnnThorpe souness didn't play for Benitez did he

@VillaBoys123 4 жыл бұрын

@@eddiepower3876 Cheers Geoff

@paulmcdonough1093 4 жыл бұрын

put him in a rugby league match he would shit himself

@barrybeanstain 4 жыл бұрын

Spoken like a truly deluded bin-dipper fan.

@andrewpaton2683 Ай бұрын

Souness!! In his day you had to take care of yourself ,huge part of the game,if you pull oot o a 50 50 you were fkt,end of. Absolute General.He is the person,no doubt.!!!❤😂😂

@TonyBananas101 3 жыл бұрын

@13:29 that tackle Colin Paterson is talking about was versus Steaua Bucharest not Aberdeen. Journalist can't get basic fact right.

@lancashirebomber9744 4 жыл бұрын

nails, great player.

@FoobsTon 4 жыл бұрын

One of his key qualities as a player can only be described by using a uniquely Scottish word and sadly it's a quality missing in the modern Scottish player and that's GALLUS.

@garycowie8648 3 жыл бұрын

LEGEND LOL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

@robbiewright9145 6 жыл бұрын

But is it not the unsavoury elements that make the Old Firm the best derby in the world ???

@eddiepower3876 5 жыл бұрын

Best????? No quality so certainly not best

@jammasterj13 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, it was war!😳

@robbiewright9145 2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiepower3876 yeah, you'd rather watch a quality chess game

@redtill1 6 жыл бұрын

Graeme Souness.......Iron Fist In a Velvet Glove !!!...Just think of a central mid of Gerrard & Souness

@botany500kojak 5 жыл бұрын

I would have Souness and McDermott in the middle with Gerard on the right and Barnes on the left.

@cousinleigh1470 5 жыл бұрын

Botany 500 gerrard in his prime for Liverpool plays where he wants

@irenefraser1663 2 жыл бұрын

nwt wrong wi a scots man

@tonyantoniou9271 3 жыл бұрын

my father calls him the scythe

@Justdisco2 6 жыл бұрын

Made from Edinburgh castle rock.

@MrBRIT94 6 жыл бұрын

Dave Shields love how all weegies think we’re a soft posh touch yet we somehow make the hardest guys in the game

@Justdisco2 6 жыл бұрын

Tam Bam funny that , Dave Mackay, was hard as nails too, Souness was the Mackay of my era, The weegies like the idea they are hard, we let them have that mantle, We will be quietly hard, We have more class.

@scottwhitley3392 4 жыл бұрын

Dave Shields Scott brown celtics supposed hard man is from Edinburgh also

@barrybeanstain 4 жыл бұрын

LOL! Seriously?

@colingeddes2172 2 жыл бұрын

I love souness. Read his book, great read. Great player and pundit. My only gripe with him is, when england play scotland hes so anti english! Top bloke though.

@davidtaylor4860 2 жыл бұрын

1970’s-80’s central midfielders attitudes was sod the football let’s get on with the game

@AnthonyMcNally123 5 жыл бұрын

"I'm now a journalist." No you aren't.

@mattsmiddy40 5 жыл бұрын

He was referring to Franny Lee taking the piss calling him journalist, switch on.

@AnthonyMcNally123 5 жыл бұрын

You're wrong...He was laughing at Franny Lee referring to him as his 'journalist friend'. He quickly then goes on to refer to himself as a 'journalist' and having 'crossed the fence'. 11:05.

@mattsmiddy40 5 жыл бұрын

@@AnthonyMcNally123 sarcasm not your strong point, is it rainman? lol

@asidhow4859 Жыл бұрын

The players of the British Isles are smart and shrewd, but lack strength, toughness and skill.....

@eddiepelosi6136 Жыл бұрын

A lot of respect for Souness but I truly hope he is wrong about getting football clubs getting too involved with football in Asia. I'm a romantic and money is pretty much destroying everything I love from football to music industry. Corporations/football are just getting too greedy particularly in Britain..

@CochinchineRaconteur 6 жыл бұрын

Great player, poor manager

@SMC01ful 6 жыл бұрын

Hmmmmm, I've sat on the fence about his management. His over-confidence which enabled him to be the worlds best def-mid of his era didn't always translate into on-field strategy and tactics. Nevertheless, he still won quite a few things as a manager. Moreover, he did bring in a lot of new training and diet-related stuff now common in British clubs. I think the consensus is he "could" have been a good manager.

@mattbrown2289 5 жыл бұрын

And even worse pundit

@coachhbosoccer 5 жыл бұрын

His personality as a player hurt him as a manager, bc he used the same approach. Only hindsight allows you to see that was wrong

@ScottishPEACEguy 5 жыл бұрын

Moyes?...😅😆😄😂, Steve Clarke ya fanny.

@TonyBananas101 3 жыл бұрын

Alex McLeish ya fanny. Not as big a fanny as the fannies who appointed him though.

@chickenoriental1210 3 жыл бұрын

Souey met once when was manager of newcastle his breath smelt like poo

@ay613 6 жыл бұрын

When did you turn man u over 0-0

@Ligerpride 6 жыл бұрын

And his hatred of Paul Pogba.

@pjduff7577 4 жыл бұрын

Because souness knows what it is to be a great midfielder , unlike pogba ,

@RossKempOnYourMum01 6 жыл бұрын

Genetics is nonsense. Bale is the most athletic top player in the world, he's genetically no different than Scotsmen, really

@coachhbosoccer 5 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. You want to tell me Ryan Fraser is as gifted athletically as Bale?? Sell me a bridge lol

@paulcoffield2102 5 жыл бұрын

@@coachhbosoccer Bale is a once in a generation player for a country with the population size of a Wales or Scotland. It's not like Wales regularly churn out this sort of quality, just like Scotland don't either, so Bale shouldn't be used as some sort of barometer for the norm. He's a freak, in a good way.