Graeme Souness

[No Ney Never]

On Sky TV at the moment along with John Barnes, what I'd give to have a young Graham Souness in our 1st eleven.

[Bin Ont Turf]

With the amount of red cards he'd get he would hardly ever play for us.

[Spike]

Was Dirty at Boro and did some unforgivable things as a manager

[ALP]

He's gone a bit ridge with the fake tan tho, looks like he's been tangoed

[No Ney Never]

With a young Graham Souness, would we ever have needed Joey Barton?

[ALP]

With a young Graham Souness, would we ever have needed Joey Barton?

Absolutely we would, Joey brought entertainment to the Turf, alongside much more

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

Like Roy Keane an absolute thug. They both got worse when they were losing. In poor sides they'd have rarely played.
Enjoy both of them in the studio though.

[Colburn_Claret]

As hywfw, a great player, but a rotten nasty loser.

[tim_noone]

As hywfw, a great player, but a rotten nasty loser.

You Left Scottish out .

[HuncoatClaret]

Like Roy Keane an absolute thug. They both got worse when they were losing. In poor sides they'd have rarely played.
Enjoy both of them in the studio though.

What a load of tosh! Roy Keane & Souness were both outstanding central midfielders and would've been the nucleus in any side. As for people thinking that they'd have got a lot of red cards in today's game, they would have adapted easily.

[Colburn_Claret]

What a load of tosh! Roy Keane & Souness were both outstanding central midfielders and would've been the nucleus in any side. As for people thinking that they'd have got a lot of red cards in today's game, they would have adapted easily.

Souness kicked **** out of anything in Claret and Blue in the semi final of 83, because they were 1 down. They were 3 up from the first leg. Still dont know how he stayed on the pitch.

[huw.Y.WattfromWare]

What a load of tosh! Roy Keane & Souness were both outstanding central midfielders and would've been the nucleus in any side. As for people thinking that they'd have got a lot of red cards in today's game, they would have adapted easily.

I agree. Two fabulous footballers, that doesn’t alter the fact that when behind they had to go looking for some poor soul to do. Evil bastards.

[HuncoatClaret]

I agree. Two fabulous footballers, that doesn’t alter the fact that when behind they had to go looking for some poor soul to do. Evil bastards.

In those days lots of teams had hard men. In Souness' time, players could get away with a lot, in Keane's day not as much, but still more than today. Unfortunately the game has gone to ridiculous levels now where players regularly re-enact scenes from Platoon only to make a miraculous recovery.

[Hendrickxz]

I suppose you shouldn't speak ill of the recently departed but Norman Hunter made Sourness look like Andy Pandy...

[Down_Rover]

Does Souness ever go home? Seems to have attended just about every game on Sky

[the_fat_shearer]

This clip always sticks in the mind for Souness.

I would refer to it as a tackle but if you've already got the ball, not sure what it can be classed as!

https://youtu.be/ygVgxYa3mlo

[AfloatinClaret]

He started early mind:
I watched Middlesborough play a supposedly friendly, pre-season game against the Combined Services at Catterick Garrison sometime in the mid-70's; it was the Jack Charlton side and they'd just been promoted to the 1st Division and I'm guessing that Souness was perhaps 20? It wasn't particularly 'friendly' and one lary CS centre half must've clattered Souness three times in the first twenty minutes. Right in front of where we were sat and with the ball nowhere near, Souness quietly stepped in behind the guy, stamped studs-first into his heel/achilles tendon and trotted away; the guy got up (eventually) but didn't mess with Souness again.