Graeme was in the spine of one of the greatest teams in history for a reason. Saying he was unskilled is just embarrassing. Everyone talks about his tackles and how he’d be “arrested” nowadays, but if you grow up and realize that football was different back then, you also realize that every team had (or wanted) a player like Souness in those days. He was one of the best in the world at his job. The quintessential midfield general of his era. The man’s range of passing was absolutely stunning. Perfectly weighted through balls, laser-like switches of play and long balls, smashing an opponent to bits and keeping it nice and tidy afterwards with some of the greatest ever Liverpool forwards relying on him to find them in the channels. Great runner with the ball too - immensely strong, and kept the ball close to his feet on some of the worst pitches you’ll ever see in color film footage. The guy is a legend for a reason.
@@ddwfw I don’t glorify or seek to justify the violent action, but I want people to realise that it was not uncommon in that era. And Souness was very much of his era. Within the different context of physicality allowed in the game at the time, such violent contact in a football match was a shorter step away than it is today. Unjustified, of course. And it’s important to bring this up to those who look back on this era longingly; we’ve moved on and the game is better for it. But context is key, and Souness was the master of his art.
@@AJ-fo2pl only players from a certain race, you lost your argument straight away, Paul Ince, John fashion(can't spell his second name) to name a few therex plenty more, fash went on to be a TV presenter 😂, why do morons make things about race when it's got nothing to do with anything, you live a sad life
Imagine training all your life, sacrifice things that means a lot to you, work very hard to get to the top and finally being able to provide for your whole family, just for it all to get abruptly ended by a double-footed tackle on your kneecap from this guy...
@@jinkertsun Cowardly? Ok lol. Gotta understand.. it was a different time. Souness was one of many players doing the same thing at that time, except that he was actually a very well-rounded player with a lot of positive attributes.. He was not exclusively known for smashing heads. He was top class by the standards of that era. Box to box, amazing touch, full range of passing, and would score immensely important goals. Totally different context. And @ the original commenter, why are we assuming he'd play the exact same way in today's game? Silly.
@@happy_camper yeah, I was there and saw how he played. A total disregard for the opposition where he could have ruined a player's career. He took players out from the back and the side so for me that is cowardly.
@@robwilliams6177 Keane had nothing, and I mean nothing on Ron “Chopper” Harris Watch the 1970 FA Cup replay at Old Trafford , he was a hatchet man on Eddie Gray……… Watching footage of him gives me nightmares 😳
@@robwilliams6177 yeah, Keane should have got a fair play award every game he played when looking at some of these assaults, sorry, I meant to say tackles 😏
There is a lot I don't like about modern football but the removal of dirty and dangerous challenges like those Souness regularly carried out is a big improvement.
I hear that. The clearly serious, bone-breaking stuff was never a pleasure to watch (for anyone sane), but the lack of diving, absurd yellow cards, pathetic penalty decisions, and gross theatrics is a pleasure to watch looking back. The game has been largely ruined, not improved, by so many ridiculous rules over the past decade or so. There were deliberate challenges that ended careers back in the seventies & eighties. The players who commited them should have been banned for life. Why is premeditated assault justifiable on a football field when it's not anywhere else? It's a crime like any other. Roy Keane was another who should have gone.
True but ever team had a couple of them. If you didn't have any you were in trouble. At least Souness had the skillset to back it up. Most were simply hatchet men.
If you take the generational nostalgia glassess off then you will see that footballers were never really the best role models. Divers, bone breakers with masculinity issues, anger management, drug addicts and alcololics always existed an always will exist. If you want some real profesionalism, athletics and sportsmanship then you will rarely find it in commercialized sports regardless of the generation. I mean, would you seriously want your childs to take guys like Maradona as their role model? Unless you are obsessed with your "masculinity" then I doubt the answer would seriously be yes. Same for Souness or guys like Roy Keane. If you look at them outside the pitch, would you want your son to have the same anger issues? I doubt that. People should just try to objectively look at football for what it is. A source of entertainment. People kicking a ball should never be glorified to the degree that they think they can get away with everything. Heck, Maradona was a drug addict that shot reporters with an air gun. John Terry regularly cheated with the wives of his team mates. Gattuso in general was a major a*hole. Yet somehow they are glorified for just because they are good at football. People who honestly think these guys are role models and somehow provide necessary services to society need some help desperately.
@Wildfox01 It's indeed a matter of perception. CR7 has also done a lot of charity. But most boomers don't care because they know it's just propaganda for himself. Same for Maradona. It's just that people seem to be very forgiving to players from their own generation for being good at kicking a ball. In every other profession you would never think of tolerating a drug addict. And I never understood why footballers are an exception. They are not necessary for society yet are viewed as role models for some reason. To many people it seems like how forgiving you are depends on how much money you earn and how successfull you are in irrelevant fields. Sorry but that's something I never understood and never will.
Is it an Improvement??? The modern game is played by lightweight pansies who drop to the ground cl and roll over twenty times whilst looking at the camera and winking! Yes it was hard game back then but footballers where hard enough to take it without crying for their mummy's
The irony is that he didn't need to do half of the thuggery - he could actually play! He could pick a pass and he knew where the goal was. If someone played like that today they would be jailed!
This is nothing compared to the fights/tackles I been through playing in local parks early 90's. Footballer's today are big fat pussies, so fat, I stopped watching football altogether because the wimpiness makes me sick.
Too optimistic . Like Roy Keane he dominated the middle of the park and it was a game for men out there.Souness had great ball distribution and read the game very well but he was feared. Personally I didn't like him then and I don't now .
@@MrBagpipes that was just how the game was back then, every team had players that would rough up the opponents. At least souness was also a world class midfielder.
Like it or not, nearly every club had a thug in the 1st team in those days. But he was a better all round player than many of the others boot boys of his generation.
Yeah every match he covers he talks about dangerous tackles and all that stuff and this was him as a player lol. That said obviously football has changed and what he could get away with back then you can't do anymore. So as a pundit he's doing his job correctly to call out foul play and dangerous play but it doesnt make him any less of a hypocrite!
That’s cause fitbaw is full of wimps now and that game back then was different. He played the mans game well and the players where scared of him. Liverpool legend. A mind he passed the ball to the opposite teams centre back just so he could half him 🤣 legend
You should check out the series Maradona blessed dreams. Lots of clips of his playing days, the guy was dancing through assault tackles all his life. The goat
Like everyone from that era had injury issues that shortened their careers. Im not a fan of the type of no contact that sometimes is a part of the game nowadays, but a lot of these tackles is just criminal assault.
I remember Souness as an elegant player which he was. I forgot about the streetfighter Souness. You showed some perfect examples of why football was different in the 80s. Players were allowed to go very far, to win. Good job man.
@@nihilistcentraluk442 Hes shit. Compare these highlights to that of maradona. Same time but you can see the difference in skill. Souness will be a league 2 player at best in the modern game or even a conference player
@@fitnessfinance8294 wow.. What a comparison. Dumb. And how many people out there at that time have skills as Maradona. So you want to say at that Era, only World class?
It amazes me that this guy did so many deliberate career ending challenges that he now finds such a lucrative living preaching the wrongs and rights on the top football channels
It was a different time and he was a brilliant player why he won so many trophy’s. this was just a few bad things over a long career and a time when lots of footballers tackled like this. There would of been a build up before these tackles as well between him and the player he tackled.
Yeah, but we've moved on from the 80's Graeme. Anyone...ANYONE can break someone's leg. There's nothing beautiful or admirable in that. Cowardly, two-footed, piss-poor excuses for tackles that he learned during the thuggery of the 70's. Football is The Beautiful Game, and he, along with all the other 'hard men', is/are a relic of everything football shouldn't be. Strength, physicality, determination and good leadership...yes. Potential career-ending assaults...Nope...never...NEVER...EVER! Probably gone too far these days with the shameful big girl's blousery that goes on with the diving and rolling around trying to get opponents sent off, but I'm still relieved to see the back of 'Football's Hard Men'. Souness, Harris, Hunter, Smith et al RIP.
Yeah you’re onto it. Deserves more likes this comment. Plenty of tough strong leaders playing football today, don’t need career Enders like this anymore. Glad people are sent these days for even potential dangerous challenges cause if they connect they look a lot like a few in here
Yeah football has changed but that takes nothing away from players from a different era &, to think it does demonstrates a lack of understanding of football as a sport & of the process of change over time in general. Do you condemn your grand-parents & parents for not being as environmentally aware as your or your childrens generation....are they terrible people who didn't care about polluting & destroying nature??? I sure hope not. And there were very, very few players that would deliberately &/or intentionally seek to cause a permanent/serious injury to another player in the era in which Souness played football...given the nature of sport to instill sportsmanship, fairplay, cooporation,etc....i seriously doubt there ever has been many players with such malicious intentions. That doesn't mean there weren't some, they were though rare, more so decades earlier, but consider of the tiny minority of players that engaged in such behaviour many, if not all, were under instructions from managers or/and or other parties with team interests & nor was the practice of deliberately portraying or hyping-up certain players as being bad tacklers who wanted to hurt folk unheard of.....it was part of the game, the football culture of the day. Finally, in a world full of snowflakes i guess one can be forgiven for confusing hard tackling with malicious tackling with intent.
@@narcosniper78 The 80's were a tougher time to live through? What does that mean? Tougher than now? So that was the cause of Souness et al going around deliberately kicking lumps out of their opponents? Do you refer to Thatcher closing down the mines? Lady Di? Ronnie Reagan? Chernobyl? Noel Edmonds? Mad Cow Disease? Do tell... I was most certainly there in the 80's my friend... But that is magnanimous of you to allow me my 'judgement'. I prefer observation of the facts. I managed to get to watch him play (against my team) on three or four occasions. And even then, in the backend of an era of 'when men were men' bollocks, he was nowt but a macho thug. A cowardly two-footed challenge from behind looks just as bad in the 80's!!! Just watch the footage mate. It's all part of the game? Unfortunately it was, yes. A product of his time? Certainly. My point is, it, and by inference, he and his ilk, should never have been part of the game. That's the problem. And yes, matey below is right in further pointing out this kind of tactic often stemmed from the manager in an era of win-at-all-costs. But it's still down to the player on the pitch as to how far he takes his 'orders'. Unfortunately many so-called fans also condoned (and still do) violent 'challenges' if it meant/means their tribal prowess remained intact. You've only gotta watch the terraces on any given match day. Huge swathes of them spend more time looking at and levelling vitriol at each other than they do actually watching the game. The average pleb on the terraces would rather see their team win at all costs (even cheat) than to lose against a better team...and God forbid, appreciate the better play that has beaten their team. I think what this demonstrates is a lack of understanding of football as a sport...(I've heard that somewhere before) I digress... I'll just repeat, any tosser can break someone's leg. Just watch him after he's clattered into someone from behind...you too matey (below)...there is no remorse, no duty of care, nothing. Just a snarl and perhaps another sneaky kick. And contrary to what matey below says, he (Souness) clearly couldn't give a toss whether the guy gets up or not. Sportsmanship, fairplay, cooporation? HaHa!!! That's a joke right? Passing and long-range shooting...yeah, whatever. So that justifies violent thuggery?...on a football pitch? FYI, football should be and should have always been about skill, brains and beauty, not about the likes of Graeme Souness.
@@naturallawprinciples Yadda Yadda. For a token response, see below/above/somewhere near here...Oh and then look up the proper meaning of 'Snowflake'...and then finally if you watch the clip again I'm hoping it will shed some light on 'your' obvious confusion between what is hard tackling and what is malicious thuggery with intent. But one can only hope.
@@EqualOpportunity9109 he was a super player.. a general and the reason why LFC where the best team in Europe for 10 yrs.. Also a dirty player and poor manager as well as an attention seeker as a pundit! But dont doubt his impact one of the best players of th 1970s and 1980s..
Bruce Lee: "There is no opponents." Rodger Federer: "You have to have respect for your opponents, because the opponents might be your friend." Graham Souness: "There is no ball. There is only the opponents."
He could tackle cleanly, too, at times. It just wouldn't make for the viewing experience that the content creator intended. He was a highly coveted player at a team dominating both in England and Europe most years.
@@mazyrun09 they picked his worse tackles over a 15 year period. People say he was dirty that was only one small part of his game. He didnt win 3 european cups 5 league titles 4 league cups over 7 years at liverpool because he was just dirty and a shit player come on people look at some of the other hard tackles and hard men of the same time and you will find little difference.
John Jensen ...this video clearly highlights Souness’ bad tackles . He did win the ball fairly a lot of times in his career ...but was prone to some thuggery too , especially when losing 😂
The main point here is most teams had a Graeme Souness! It’s scary to think how even greater the great players from the 60s - 90s would have been if footy was as fair/soft as it is today.
He was in pretty exclusive company as a dirty psycho. Graham Roberts was his England counterpart back in the day The Italians usually had two or three. Even though I am Scottish I do regret never having seen him get laid out by somebody.
@@errcoche Celtic fan? …. Graham Roberts was hard as nails so we’ll end that there! McCay, Bremner, Aitken ….. Scotland had its fair share of hard/dirty players that were very good players too so Souness wasn’t in exclusive company as there were tons & I can’t be arsed to type out all the English & European players that were in his day!
@@stephenwilliams8128 I am a Celtic fan more by accident of birth than anything so I don't tend to take it too seriously. I actually remember Roberts from his Spurs days a lot more than Rangers because I was living in England from 1970 onwards. Bremner was dirty, Dave McKay was hard. I am drawing a line between hard players and viciously dirty players. Don't get me wrong, I relished Souness' filthy play back in the day watching the home internationals and I grew up 15 miles from Liverpool. I remember English friends of ours round at the house thinking they had stumbled into some Gorbals dive bar with six of us screaming at the telly when England and Scotland were playing. Looking back on it, I think Souness was beyond the pale. I remember Roy Aitken ( he played for us right ) but I never had the impression he was Souness level psycho. If we start reeling off how many decent players we had back then we will both just get depressed about the fall from grace of Scottish football. We need to re-open the Lanarkshire pits.
Those great players also had rough teammates to do the dirty work for him. Rough players often protect their teammates. If u hurt a star player of my team I will get revenge on you, might as well hurt your star player as well. What ever rules we had today are evolution of the game, there should be a balance. When football became a more prominent sport in the 80s, many mire stars were born, defenders also became faster, tougher, dirtier, more intelligent as well. Tackles from behind or with both foot were banned after the tragedy if Marco Can Basten. He had to retire early because of serious injury.
@@errcoche Scotland had some great players 70s and 80s. Specially 70s. World Cup Argentina is the one they really should have gone all the way. Don't think they were quite good enough to win it, but certainly a top four finish was not beyond them.
😂😂That episode when he planted the Galatasaray flag on the pitch, away at Fenerbahce, was absolutely sensational. Still cracks me up to this day. No f***s given, there, by Souey... 😂
First and foremost Souness wasn't a tough player. He was a thug, pure and simple. Class players often left him for dead and his only answer was to resort to violent assault (they certainly weren't tackles.) That's why he's never been any good as a manager either. He's simply a bully boy who resorts to his big mouth and bad temper when he doesn't get his own way. Just watch him on Sky and you'll see it. He should have been sent off in most of the games he was involved in and he would definitely, without any shadow of a doubt, pick up a lifetime ban if he was still playing in today's games.
@@cyberdonblue4413 yes but he's not playing in today's game and he was a product of the era of game that he played in. You just seem to me that you're someone who talks about football based on the snowflake world that we live in now, rather than someone who's played it. Leave the business of talking football to people who have learnt what they know on the grass, not the tele mate. 👍🏻
@@samwhitehall8545 This snowflake watched (and played) football for 50 odd years. I played at semi-pro level so it's obviously you who learnt your bullshit criticism from the telly. I suggest you take your telly back to your bedroom and and carry on concentrating on your porn films. It's obviously affected your eyesight too much to be able to see proper football. I watched many good hard players in my time. Francis Lee, Norman Hunter, "Chopper" Harris, Billy Bremner, to name but a mere few. Yes, they were nasty at times but not out and out thugs like Souness. They could play the game it was supposed to be played - hard but fair (mostly.) I also took my fair share of knocks in my time as a player (when it was a man's game) and I gave a few knocks out too. I was no saint. It was a time when - if you were subtle enough - you could take your revenge on someone who you felt was being a bit too much. However, any player I ever came across at any standard behaving like Souness quickly ended up with a good all round kicking from one or more of those on the receiving side of that offending players "tackles." Believe me, they were always the ones that came off worse. If you wanted full on thuggery you played Sunday afternoon football where the thugs got drunk in the pub at lunchtime and then went onto a pitch somewhere at chucking out time to look for a fight. See you around snowflake, when lived in the real world for a bit longer!
@@cyberdonblue4413 man you ansererd him so well He thought you were some new guy who started football in the 2000s Turns out you have been watching football before his mum was born
As a casualty of late 80s football with a smashed knee cap & torn ACL from a stud up challenge in 1989 ending my chances I agree these modern day players wouldn't last 5 minutes.... took me years to get over the devastation
Zico made a chump out of Souness in the 1981 World Club Cup Final between, Flamengo & Liverpool. Even Souness said after the game, he couldn't near Zico. Zico was *_THAT_* good!
Those who say that footballers from that era would not be able to play in today's era because of their stamina seem to be blind. Doesn't playing on a poor quality field, with terrible brutality, require high stamina?
@@ronoccc he cut you in half for a comment like that. Souness was one f the best midfielders of his generation. He was as tough as teak but could also play.
5:30 cant stop replaying this and pissing myself....souey was so full of rage at being pushed over, he had to foul someone, anyone, as soon as possible...just cleans out some guy who doesnt even have the ball...brilliant.
Souness played in the days when real men played football not like the bunch of pansies nowadays, no one died or got seriously injured. Football always was a contact sport you breathe on them nowadays and they fall over... pathetic, big babies the lot of them!!!
That penalty at 3:52 - don't think I've ever seen a technique like that. Souness was a beast of a player and took no sh*t off anyone - except Yozzer Hughes.
Liverpool in the 80s, Man U in the 90s, Arsenal in the 00s. None of these times would have been half as successful as they were without Souness, Keane and Viera. Yes, they were tough, but by God they could play football. And there isn't a football fan in the country who would not dream of having any of those three in their own team.
Pickford's tackle is nowhere close to what this guy was doing to players, he almost castrated one player, that is not football, football does not need that at all, otherwise after 90 minutes you'll end up with only 2 players in the field.😁
A pundits perspective and a players perspective are very different . When youre on the pitch its extremely competitive and although tackles like these would end up with a heavy suspension you gotta realize football has changed dramatically in so many ways .Souness was pivotal in arguably the best team English football has ever produced ! End of story !
@@darrenagnew7098 sourness is the most overrated player, he was just fouling and bullying player, that’s why even pogba is better than him as he has more goals and assists even though he has played lesser games
@@philmayne6577 I was very much alive and watching football back then and it was a different game in that era. For example, there's a famous story about a modern referee - David Elleray - 're-refereeing' the 1970 FA Cup final replay between Leeds and Chelsea - I think in the late '90s - applying the modern laws. Nobody was sent off by the '70 ref but Elleray said under modern rules he would have awarded 6 red cards (along with 20 yellow cards) in that game. You might want to check out Eddie McCreadie's 'tackle' on Billy Bremner - striaght from the Bruce Lee handbook.
@@hugodrax71 I was privileged enough to watch football back then too, seen the brutality, played Leeds in the 70s European Cup Saw Jimmy Johnstone brutalised on a weekly basis etc, you can't confuse that culture with that heathen Souness
@@harrycharlton1459 You think the modern game is ONLY about speed? So no place for someone who can maintain consistent pace and stamina throughout an entire game? You do realise that players who were at their peak in their generation would also benefit from all the sports science changes of the modern game too? If you took a player from the 60's, 70's or 80's and gave them the same conditioning, training, nutrition, physio, game analysis feedback and put them on modern playing surfaces with 21st century kit they would most likely do as well as any of the current crop
@@mikoajdariuszmackowiak2141 ah right, i see your point, perhaps hes under rated by people outside uk. Prem players never seem to win world player of year. He reminds me of roy keane.
Souness would be red carded in the first 10 minutes of any modern day game. He can speak calmly on tv as a pundit now, but he was an animal as a player
@@jas0241 As he said to a player after a game why did you not (FKN) PASS IT TO ME I COULDN'T SEE YOU HE PROMPTLY HIT HIM IN THE CHOPS AND SAID CAN YOU SEE ME NOW ,
Graeme Souness was a gifted and talented player and often under-rated. He gave great service to his club and country and is fondly remembered at Liverpool as a player. He was also an 'animal'.
Dalglish is my all time favourite player but as I get older I'm realising that gap is getting smaller between him and Souness ,great all round player ,yes could be very hard but you've got to remember everyone was over the top in them days ,not many players could score that many long range goals on some of them shite pitches ,one of his most outstanding I seen was a thirty yarder against Peter shilton against Southampton at Anfield, not many can say that 👌
That's absolutely terrible. You simply can't defend that by saying men were men and now they're snowflakes. A game isn't meant to cripple pple. I for sure don't want to see men maimed and suffer terribly while playing a game I enjoy. There's something really wrong with you if you enjoy this.
I remember when souness was a young man starting out n Johnny Giles got him a beauty up the back of his legs I think that changed souness he became the hardest footballer going but also a great player I think midfielders were scared shit of him but as he got older n slowed down at Rangers the tackles got worst some of them would leave you cringing but what a great player. Great passer n great shot n only Graeme could do that with the flag in Turkey 😂
Souness was a very good midfielder, but I hope you are not seriously traying to say he was as good as or even better than for example Johan Cruyff, Diego Maradona, Zico, Socrates, Lothar Matthäus, Michel Platini, Zbigniew Boniek or Frank Rijkaard.
@@azdaz7109 No, he did not. Johan Cruyff won just as many European Cups with Ajax (3) as did Souness with Liverpool. Frank Rijkaard won the European Cup twice with Milan and the Champions League once with Ajax.
Graeme Souness was a hero of mine as part of that great Liverpool team of the 70’s and early 80’s. He had everything. He was a hard tackler, great stamina, was really quick, a very good dribbler of the ball, a great leader, intelligent reader of the game, amazing distribution and a thunderbolt shot. Yeah, he could be a hard man, but football back then was different in an era where physical play was the norm. Let’s not forget that the pitches of the era were often heavy mud pits too, not pristine like today in the op leagues. If Souness was playing today, he wouldn’t be getting sent off all the time, he would have adapted and still been a great player.
He gave as good as he got. There were at least 3 over the top tackles, in every game back then. The first couple would happen within five minutes, from the kick off. It was known as settng your stall out.
For those who watched him week in week out in the 80’s he was maestro - especially for Liverpool. His tackling was of that era - he may have perfected it though 👍
@@lambokiller99 it's not about the defenders... Of course maradona didn't have it easy. Doesn't mean Messi had it easy... 2 completely different eras.... The game has evolved much more dynamically and tactically....u can't compare which players frm different eras had it tougher
They weren’t as skilled or as well trained as today’s world class defenders but it is true that they were way more cuntish! But then the terraces were way more cuntish also! These days i even see the gay flag waved around in the stands, it’s just a different age nowadays than the 1980s.
@@AS-nx9fu the game has evolved to be more attacking and free flowing. In the 70s and 80s, defensive tactics were the most complex they ever were and the quality of defenders was much higher than it is now. The referees also gave defenders free range to do whatever they wanted on the pitch, which is why Maradona is the most fouled footballer of all time.
I remember Graeme Souness as a very capable combative midfielder. Yes he had a reputation as a hardman in footballer. But he certainly also had underrated skill to his game. And was not like in his era that he was the only hardman many teams had their own. Tackling was just more brutal and rougher in that era and certain tackles allowed in that era. Are outlawed in todays era of football. And back then referees didn't protect players from rough tackling treatment like they do in the current era. Often the referee would just gesture to the downed player on the end of these tackles to get to their feet and carry on. And most of the time that's what players did back then. Rough tackling was part of the football of the era. Not everyone playing enjoyed the rough treatment but it was expected that you could take it in that era. And when one thinks in past eras of football not all players even wore shin guards either.
Exactly. I was a sissy and therefore stopped playing as a teenager in the mid 80. All defenders were insane war criminals in my opinion, and there was just no way I was going to go anywhere near them. Let me read some sissy poetry instead!
Dont think his skills were ever underrated. Ive seen Sky pundits actually put him in, or close to all time great world teams! His passing and brain were possibly only rivalled by Platini and maybe one or two others in that era.
I started to watch football, particularly Italian football in the nineties, because of talent and skill. I'm Scottish and watching this reminds me of what I hated about Scottish football.
Totally disagree,any tackling like that now in Scotland is a straight red. We are producing alot of great young players just now and the national team is improving. Don't get me wrong rangers, celtic and Scotland had great teams in the 90s then we were shit but it's definitely improving
I’m always going on about the Icelandic player whose leg Souness broke, while playing for Scotland!!!! I was ashamed of my country. We won 1 :0 Kevin Gallagher. Felt shameful, great player but fuck him!
That is why we say that Diego Maradona is the greatest...because he dominated the game in spite of all the assaults he had to endure and survive on the pitch in the 80s where all the defenses were the same all over Europe. Teams basically hired hitmen to play defense. Italy was the most notorious of them. Either you or the ball passes through the defense, but not both. Look at the West German Goalkeeper Harald Schumacher's assault on the French player Patrick Battiston and get no red card, not even a foul at the 1982 World Cup Semi-final. Maradona was wearing most of the time shoes a size or 2 larger because his feet were always swollen and bruised from all the tackles and he still dominated. It's like a famished homeless winning World Strongest Man contest. The fact that after the butcher of Bilbao broke his ankle, he came back just as good as before, is a miracle in itself. So because of what players like Maradona had to go through, the rules finally had to change (I am glad they did)..which paved the way for the Messis and Cristianos of today to prosper. Graeme Souness should be embarrassed of the way he played.
Apparently when Souness was "learning the trade" in his younger days at Middlesbrough, he tried to trip up Johnny Giles, one of the toughest men in football (apart from being a brilliant player) and Giles sent him sprawling on the mud. The story goes that Giles said to him, as he lay on the ground: "don´t worry son, you´ll soon learn"...
He was sent off for 2 of the above tackles, it was a different era, he was an outstanding footballer, Italy and Serie A only called for the very best talent then. He succeeded in a league were Zico, Maradona, Laudrup Elkjaer, Rumenigge, Baresi, Boniek etc. A limit of 2 foreign players per team, it claimed UCL winners x3 and many more finalists. Sampdoria themselves reached Wembley final. Sourness was phenomenal.
@@suryoardi7109 how many actual leg breaking challenges? Very few, game was so slow back then. Now players run over 20mph with the ball, different era. If you tackle like Souness today the player would be 10 yards past him already.
@@Solapunk yes it slow back then, but it have logical reason, look at the pitch / field. football field is very bad back then. it very uncomfortable for footballer to play on it, it look slipery, wet and sometimes full of mudd, sometime to dry and grassless on many part. every i watch football match during 60-80's era i never see good field, very worst. thats why we can see classic footballer is find difficult for running. plus they not get have good quality shoes, my father have football shoes from his young time at 70-80's. its bad comparing nowaday shoes, it uncomfortable wearing that, very hard shoes. Imagine all footballer play with all that thing
He was highly regarded at the time for many reasons. His skill, determination and desire cannot be questioned. But even at the time there were those who thought (and who said) that he was being given license to bully, to intimidate and to injure. Some commentators laughed off some of his.more overtly unpleasant and violent play. He was not the exception in his day but some of what he got up to (and was allowed to get up to) was not football. Nostalgia is a lovely thing, but some specs are more rose-tinted than they need to be. He hurt people.
HAHAHAHA people actually have the audacity to genuinely say Pogba is a better player. Pogba doesn’t come close... this man is one of the best midfielders ever
@@leadsuspect4964 go play a premier league game and run around virtually none stop for two halves of 45 mins, not to mention going up against all the 13/14 stone 6ft tall midfielders and centre backs and see how long you last.
@@adiabeticturtle2463 Seeing as how I have fought professional fighters in the octagon who have black belts in multiple martial arts I would say I would be able to handle myself just fine. Compared to boxing and basketball, football is not a physically demanding sport. The main reason is that grass is actually quite friendly for joints. Even tennis is a lot more demanding, where you see someone like Djokovic play a 5 hour match on saturday and then returns on sunday to play a 6 hour match. Usually the top teams play 2-3 time a week. Honestly I'm not even being a prick. I love football but let's not make it out like it's physically difficult. It's the skill which escapes me. Just go and watch Pacquiao's daily routine and then you realise running around on a grass surface for 90 minutes is difficult. But hey, I just play sports, what would I know?
@@leadsuspect4964 like anyone is going to believe that load on nonsense you just typed up. Football is a game that requires massive stamina levels, especially in the modern game with all the pressing most teams utilise and constant short sprints that players have to do. Even more so in the prem were the games are played at a faster pace. And then cb’s and certain types of midfielders and forwards also need to be physically strong.
Anytime I see Souness in a Tottenham shirt, always reminds me of the story how Dave Mackay signed him and the both being from Edinburgh, Mackay telling Souness “Us Gorgie boys need to stick together” Always liked that.
@@jerryrawlings8885 if you're implying he's two footing opponents and giving them career threatening injuries on purpose, then he's a very disgusting footballer
@@gerald9992 That's exactly what I'm implying it was commonplace in the 60's 70's 80's managers used to encourage it also if you weren't able to mix ii you probably wouldn't make it as a pro back then.
We had King Kenny, Hansen, Rush etc. Pre internet, you only found out the starting 11 on a freezing night somewhere in England at the ground. The only name you cared about was Souness. The temperature would lift. Silk and steel. Team player.
The best all round midfielder to this day. Inesta and Xavis's of this world are more technical but Sounes dominated the midfield .He had a cracking shot and never give up attitude. Their wasn't a better team in the world when he played
Top footballer, even Irn-Bru girders would melt in fear. No quarter asked & none given. Tough & fearsome he would carve oppositions apart. Swarthy like a Caribbean pirate he swashbuckled with Liverpool & gave grit when the tough was needed. Salute.
Keane was very good but would have been destroyed by Souness .. GS was very calm and he was a huge man .. Keane would have pace on him but would have walked away from Souness.. Only McMahon took him on and Souness put a 5 inch scar down his calf from behind! When needed GS was an cunning animal! Although in 1986 World Cup he backed off from a Uruguayan head case and didn't fancy it against Argentinian Daniel Passarella! The 1978 World Cup winning captain a top hard case in the Italian league!
Oooh yeah, he was such a bad boy. But no one today will question the player rolling on the floor, like he's just survived an assassination attempt, carrying on for the rest of the game.
One of the best two footed tacklers I have ever seen. Right foot, left foot, he could could disable people equally well.
He was ambudextrous. Stick you in the ambulance with either foot.
fuck no am I playing with him💀
He was a good header as well.
The VAR monitor would just go up in flames the moment he stepped on the pitch.
That made me laugh out loud!
that would be very good. the var would not exist for entire match. #fuck VAR and also fuck sterling.
VAR would get a blue screen of death
Soooo true.🤣🤣🤣🤣
He would’ve sent off every match.
One of the greatest martial artists to ever hit a ball.
You made me laugh 😂
A total dirty angry twat and shit pundit
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@@fredpongthetoiletguy9433 😂😂
in his later years he was like that, but in his heyday (1978 to 1982) he was a world class midfielder
Graeme was in the spine of one of the greatest teams in history for a reason. Saying he was unskilled is just embarrassing. Everyone talks about his tackles and how he’d be “arrested” nowadays, but if you grow up and realize that football was different back then, you also realize that every team had (or wanted) a player like Souness in those days. He was one of the best in the world at his job. The quintessential midfield general of his era. The man’s range of passing was absolutely stunning. Perfectly weighted through balls, laser-like switches of play and long balls, smashing an opponent to bits and keeping it nice and tidy afterwards with some of the greatest ever Liverpool forwards relying on him to find them in the channels. Great runner with the ball too - immensely strong, and kept the ball close to his feet on some of the worst pitches you’ll ever see in color film footage. The guy is a legend for a reason.
@@ddwfw I don’t glorify or seek to justify the violent action, but I want people to realise that it was not uncommon in that era. And Souness was very much of his era. Within the different context of physicality allowed in the game at the time, such violent contact in a football match was a shorter step away than it is today. Unjustified, of course. And it’s important to bring this up to those who look back on this era longingly; we’ve moved on and the game is better for it. But context is key, and Souness was the master of his art.
souness is like gatusso before gatusso
@@AJ-fo2pl only players from a certain race, you lost your argument straight away, Paul Ince, John fashion(can't spell his second name) to name a few therex plenty more, fash went on to be a TV presenter 😂, why do morons make things about race when it's got nothing to do with anything, you live a sad life
Oops the race card - i fold - race trumps all
He was sent off for one of the above tackles. As the man says, it was a different era
Imagine training all your life, sacrifice things that means a lot to you, work very hard to get to the top and finally being able to provide for your whole family, just for it all to get abruptly ended by a double-footed tackle on your kneecap from this guy...
Surprised he wasn't assassinated if he did end someone career that way.
Gotta respect the bloke for it
Imagine sourness was your father and beat the stupid shit comments out u every day😂
gonna cry
@@viralknockout that was proper football
The title should read “Graeme Souness shows why he wouldn’t last a full ninety minutes in today’s game”.
Matthew Pace 90min?? Not even 2 min with that complete stupidity..
ermal pula I was gonna say similar like 90 seconds 🙏
They call him a hard man he wasn’t he was just a cowardly thug. Even back then that shit should have been jumped on.
@@jinkertsun Cowardly? Ok lol. Gotta understand.. it was a different time. Souness was one of many players doing the same thing at that time, except that he was actually a very well-rounded player with a lot of positive attributes.. He was not exclusively known for smashing heads. He was top class by the standards of that era. Box to box, amazing touch, full range of passing, and would score immensely important goals. Totally different context. And @ the original commenter, why are we assuming he'd play the exact same way in today's game? Silly.
@@happy_camper yeah, I was there and saw how he played. A total disregard for the opposition where he could have ruined a player's career. He took players out from the back and the side so for me that is cowardly.
My dad used to say to my mum “I’m going to the pub for a Graeme Souness. One half then I’ll be off.”
That is brilliant
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣absolute class
To me Keane was The Asassin!
Remember Chopper Harris ? Phew.
@@robwilliams6177
Keane had nothing, and I mean nothing on Ron “Chopper” Harris
Watch the 1970 FA Cup replay at Old Trafford , he was a hatchet man on Eddie
Gray………
Watching footage of him gives me nightmares 😳
@@robwilliams6177 yeah, Keane should have got a fair play award every game he played when looking at some of these assaults, sorry, I meant to say tackles 😏
He was World class. One of the few Scotsmen who were.
There is a lot I don't like about modern football but the removal of dirty and dangerous challenges like those Souness regularly carried out is a big improvement.
I hear that. The clearly serious, bone-breaking stuff was never a pleasure to watch (for anyone sane), but the lack of diving, absurd yellow cards, pathetic penalty decisions, and gross theatrics is a pleasure to watch looking back. The game has been largely ruined, not improved, by so many ridiculous rules over the past decade or so. There were deliberate challenges that ended careers back in the seventies & eighties. The players who commited them should have been banned for life. Why is premeditated assault justifiable on a football field when it's not anywhere else? It's a crime like any other. Roy Keane was another who should have gone.
True but ever team had a couple of them. If you didn't have any you were in trouble. At least Souness had the skillset to back it up. Most were simply hatchet men.
If you take the generational nostalgia glassess off then you will see that footballers were never really the best role models. Divers, bone breakers with masculinity issues, anger management, drug addicts and alcololics always existed an always will exist. If you want some real profesionalism, athletics and sportsmanship then you will rarely find it in commercialized sports regardless of the generation. I mean, would you seriously want your childs to take guys like Maradona as their role model? Unless you are obsessed with your "masculinity" then I doubt the answer would seriously be yes. Same for Souness or guys like Roy Keane. If you look at them outside the pitch, would you want your son to have the same anger issues? I doubt that. People should just try to objectively look at football for what it is. A source of entertainment. People kicking a ball should never be glorified to the degree that they think they can get away with everything. Heck, Maradona was a drug addict that shot reporters with an air gun. John Terry regularly cheated with the wives of his team mates. Gattuso in general was a major a*hole. Yet somehow they are glorified for just because they are good at football. People who honestly think these guys are role models and somehow provide necessary services to society need some help desperately.
@Wildfox01 It's indeed a matter of perception. CR7 has also done a lot of charity. But most boomers don't care because they know it's just propaganda for himself. Same for Maradona. It's just that people seem to be very forgiving to players from their own generation for being good at kicking a ball. In every other profession you would never think of tolerating a drug addict. And I never understood why footballers are an exception. They are not necessary for society yet are viewed as role models for some reason. To many people it seems like how forgiving you are depends on how much money you earn and how successfull you are in irrelevant fields. Sorry but that's something I never understood and never will.
Is it an Improvement??? The modern game is played by lightweight pansies who drop to the ground cl and roll over twenty times whilst looking at the camera and winking! Yes it was hard game back then but footballers where hard enough to take it without crying for their mummy's
The irony is that he didn't need to do half of the thuggery - he could actually play! He could pick a pass and he knew where the goal was. If someone played like that today they would be jailed!
100% correct. Souness was a very good player but sullied his professional reputation by his thuggery.
This is nothing compared to the fights/tackles I been through playing in local parks early 90's. Footballer's today are big fat pussies, so fat, I stopped watching football altogether because the wimpiness makes me sick.
Too optimistic .
Like Roy Keane he dominated the middle of the park and it was a game for men out there.Souness had great ball distribution and read the game very well but he was feared. Personally I didn't like him then and I don't now .
@SMGComps - Football comps and edits I ain't got time to bleed.
@@MrBagpipes that was just how the game was back then, every team had players that would rough up the opponents. At least souness was also a world class midfielder.
He was two-footed, like many of his tackles!
loooool nice
No one is laughing
@@bencharlton9334 I am
Very amusing
The scottish missile
Like it or not, nearly every club had a thug in the 1st team in those days. But he was a better all round player than many of the others boot boys of his generation.
Even zidane brought the heat on the field. That was the beauty of football. The ultimate expression of the rage of man, alongside war.
This is the man calling Werner out for dangerous play
I know I love it every time he talks about a bad tackle i remember that stomp on mateys thigh
Yeah every match he covers he talks about dangerous tackles and all that stuff and this was him as a player lol.
That said obviously football has changed and what he could get away with back then you can't do anymore. So as a pundit he's doing his job correctly to call out foul play and dangerous play but it doesnt make him any less of a hypocrite!
The dirty bastard
That’s cause fitbaw is full of wimps now and that game back then was different. He played the mans game well and the players where scared of him. Liverpool legend. A mind he passed the ball to the opposite teams centre back just so he could half him 🤣 legend
@@ransacked100 that doesn’t make sense, he’s the one saying Werner was playing dangerously
Imagine how many rollovers Neymar would do after a Souness tackle.
All the way from Glasgow to Sao Paulo...
Stupid
lola van I don’t think he’d want to do any.
After watching this video, I have to say that this will be the most underrated comment ever on RUclips. Thanks for making my day.
He will do 0 rollovers. He'd die on contact.
My respect for Maradona for doing what he did in this era has doubled after watching this.
You should check out the series Maradona blessed dreams. Lots of clips of his playing days, the guy was dancing through assault tackles all his life. The goat
the defenders in serie a were all not only brilliant but almost as violent as souness himself.
Me too, 2 X 0 = 0. A drug taking cheat.
@@orwellboy1958 England won their only world cup with a ghost goal, so why don't you stfu
Like everyone from that era had injury issues that shortened their careers. Im not a fan of the type of no contact that sometimes is a part of the game nowadays, but a lot of these tackles is just criminal assault.
Top quality player. A warrior on the pitch.
I remember Souness as an elegant player which he was. I forgot about the streetfighter Souness. You showed some perfect examples of why football was different in the 80s. Players were allowed to go very far, to win. Good job man.
He was also an outstanding midfielder. At his best he ran the show with his passing and a few other things.
Nihilistcentral UK spot on but some people want to overlook that fact
@@nihilistcentraluk442 Hes shit. Compare these highlights to that of maradona. Same time but you can see the difference in skill. Souness will be a league 2 player at best in the modern game or even a conference player
@@fitnessfinance8294 wow.. What a comparison. Dumb. And how many people out there at that time have skills as Maradona. So you want to say at that Era, only World class?
It amazes me that this guy did so many deliberate career ending challenges that he now finds such a lucrative living preaching the wrongs and rights on the top football channels
It was a different time and he was a brilliant player why he won so many trophy’s. this was just a few bad things over a long career and a time when lots of footballers tackled like this. There would of been a build up before these tackles as well between him and the player he tackled.
paid for his jugs to be pinned back so
Lol everyone tackled like that, least it stopped pansy divers
Really? Success as a player and manager?
Life ain’t fair unfortunately
the irony of calling pogbas challenge a 'leg breaker', this guy was out here collecting souls should have been jailed
your comment should be the first.. His agenda against pogba is totally sickening.
Pogba isn't fit to lace his boots, Souness was an incredible player, he was also a bit of a shithouse too.
@@aimer3042 man said sickening
It's because he see what talent he has & he's not putting in 100% every game like he did one of the greatest ever
Graham wasn't playing football
Not only was he tough, Souness was one of the most skilful midfielders of his generation and a brilliant leader.
As a midfielder he had everything he wud get into any midfield today
looks cowardly to me
He was completely unconcerned about the harm he was doing. A deeply selfish man and self righteous with it .
Just as skillful with his left as with his right leg in ending other players careers.
Utterly violent imbecile.
An unbelievable player
Yeah, but we've moved on from the 80's Graeme. Anyone...ANYONE can break someone's leg. There's nothing beautiful or admirable in that. Cowardly, two-footed, piss-poor excuses for tackles that he learned during the thuggery of the 70's. Football is The Beautiful Game, and he, along with all the other 'hard men', is/are a relic of everything football shouldn't be. Strength, physicality, determination and good leadership...yes. Potential career-ending assaults...Nope...never...NEVER...EVER! Probably gone too far these days with the shameful big girl's blousery that goes on with the diving and rolling around trying to get opponents sent off, but I'm still relieved to see the back of 'Football's Hard Men'. Souness, Harris, Hunter, Smith et al RIP.
well said👏
Yeah you’re onto it. Deserves more likes this comment. Plenty of tough strong leaders playing football today, don’t need career Enders like this anymore. Glad people are sent these days for even potential dangerous challenges cause if they connect they look a lot like a few in here
Yeah football has changed but that takes nothing away from players from a different era &, to think it does demonstrates a lack of understanding of football as a sport & of the process of change over time in general.
Do you condemn your grand-parents & parents for not being as environmentally aware as your or your childrens generation....are they terrible people who didn't care about polluting & destroying nature???
I sure hope not.
And there were very, very few players that would deliberately &/or intentionally seek to cause a permanent/serious injury to another player in the era in which Souness played football...given the nature of sport to instill sportsmanship, fairplay, cooporation,etc....i seriously doubt there ever has been many players with such malicious intentions.
That doesn't mean there weren't some, they were though rare, more so decades earlier, but consider of the tiny minority of players that engaged in such behaviour many, if not all, were under instructions from managers or/and or other parties with team interests & nor was the practice of deliberately portraying or hyping-up certain players as being bad tacklers who wanted to hurt folk unheard of.....it was part of the game, the football culture of the day.
Finally, in a world full of snowflakes i guess one can be forgiven for confusing hard tackling with malicious tackling with intent.
@@narcosniper78 The 80's were a tougher time to live through? What does that mean? Tougher than now? So that was the cause of Souness et al going around deliberately kicking lumps out of their opponents? Do you refer to Thatcher closing down the mines? Lady Di? Ronnie Reagan? Chernobyl? Noel Edmonds? Mad Cow Disease? Do tell...
I was most certainly there in the 80's my friend...
But that is magnanimous of you to allow me my 'judgement'. I prefer observation of the facts. I managed to get to watch him play (against my team) on three or four occasions. And even then, in the backend of an era of 'when men were men' bollocks, he was nowt but a macho thug. A cowardly two-footed challenge from behind looks just as bad in the 80's!!! Just watch the footage mate.
It's all part of the game? Unfortunately it was, yes. A product of his time? Certainly. My point is, it, and by inference, he and his ilk, should never have been part of the game. That's the problem. And yes, matey below is right in further pointing out this kind of tactic often stemmed from the manager in an era of win-at-all-costs. But it's still down to the player on the pitch as to how far he takes his 'orders'. Unfortunately many so-called fans also condoned (and still do) violent 'challenges' if it meant/means their tribal prowess remained intact. You've only gotta watch the terraces on any given match day. Huge swathes of them spend more time looking at and levelling vitriol at each other than they do actually watching the game. The average pleb on the terraces would rather see their team win at all costs (even cheat) than to lose against a better team...and God forbid, appreciate the better play that has beaten their team. I think what this demonstrates is a lack of understanding of football as a sport...(I've heard that somewhere before)
I digress...
I'll just repeat, any tosser can break someone's leg.
Just watch him after he's clattered into someone from behind...you too matey (below)...there is no remorse, no duty of care, nothing. Just a snarl and perhaps another sneaky kick. And contrary to what matey below says, he (Souness) clearly couldn't give a toss whether the guy gets up or not.
Sportsmanship, fairplay, cooporation? HaHa!!! That's a joke right?
Passing and long-range shooting...yeah, whatever. So that justifies violent thuggery?...on a football pitch?
FYI, football should be and should have always been about skill, brains and beauty, not about the likes of Graeme Souness.
@@naturallawprinciples Yadda Yadda. For a token response, see below/above/somewhere near here...Oh and then look up the proper meaning of 'Snowflake'...and then finally if you watch the clip again I'm hoping it will shed some light on 'your' obvious confusion between what is hard tackling and what is malicious thuggery with intent. But one can only hope.
Souness wouldn't survive today also, take a look at some of his "tackles", he would be suspended for life.
That’s the point of the video I think 😅
Couldn’t of said it better myself.
Exactly. Would be tried for assault. He was a thug !
ask Pepe and Ramos if they're suspended for life...
@@EqualOpportunity9109 he was a super player.. a general and the reason why LFC where the best team in Europe for 10 yrs..
Also a dirty player and poor manager as well as an attention seeker as a pundit! But dont doubt his impact one of the best players of th 1970s and 1980s..
Bruce Lee: "There is no opponents."
Rodger Federer: "You have to have respect for your opponents, because the opponents might be your friend."
Graham Souness: "There is no ball. There is only the opponents."
Lmaoo
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"only kneecaps"
The guy could play, he was a winner
His tackles aren't even good ones, they're just dirty
Badly mis-timed tackles 😂
He could tackle cleanly, too, at times. It just wouldn't make for the viewing experience that the content creator intended. He was a highly coveted player at a team dominating both in England and Europe most years.
@@mazyrun09 they picked his worse tackles over a 15 year period. People say he was dirty that was only one small part of his game. He didnt win 3 european cups 5 league titles 4 league cups over 7 years at liverpool because he was just dirty and a shit player come on people look at some of the other hard tackles and hard men of the same time and you will find little difference.
John Jensen ...this video clearly highlights Souness’ bad tackles . He did win the ball fairly a lot of times in his career ...but was prone to some thuggery too , especially when losing 😂
Souness is just a thug
The main point here is most teams had a Graeme Souness!
It’s scary to think how even greater the great players from the 60s - 90s would have been if footy was as fair/soft as it is today.
He was in pretty exclusive company as a dirty psycho. Graham Roberts was his England counterpart back in the day The Italians usually had two or three. Even though I am Scottish I do regret never having seen him get laid out by somebody.
@@errcoche Celtic fan? …. Graham Roberts was hard as nails so we’ll end that there!
McCay, Bremner, Aitken ….. Scotland had its fair share of hard/dirty players that were very good players too so Souness wasn’t in exclusive company as there were tons & I can’t be arsed to type out all the English & European players that were in his day!
@@stephenwilliams8128 I am a Celtic fan more by accident of birth than anything so I don't tend to take it too seriously. I actually remember Roberts from his Spurs days a lot more than Rangers because I was living in England from 1970 onwards. Bremner was dirty, Dave McKay was hard.
I am drawing a line between hard players and viciously dirty players. Don't get me wrong, I relished Souness' filthy play back in the day watching the home internationals and I grew up 15 miles from Liverpool. I remember English friends of ours round at the house thinking they had stumbled into some Gorbals dive bar with six of us screaming at the telly when England and Scotland were playing. Looking back on it, I think Souness was beyond the pale. I remember Roy Aitken ( he played for us right ) but I never had the impression he was Souness level psycho. If we start reeling off how many decent players we had back then we will both just get depressed about the fall from grace of Scottish football. We need to re-open the Lanarkshire pits.
Those great players also had rough teammates to do the dirty work for him. Rough players often protect their teammates. If u hurt a star player of my team I will get revenge on you, might as well hurt your star player as well.
What ever rules we had today are evolution of the game, there should be a balance. When football became a more prominent sport in the 80s, many mire stars were born, defenders also became faster, tougher, dirtier, more intelligent as well.
Tackles from behind or with both foot were banned after the tragedy if Marco Can Basten. He had to retire early because of serious injury.
@@errcoche Scotland had some great players 70s and 80s. Specially 70s. World Cup Argentina is the one they really should have gone all the way. Don't think they were quite good enough to win it, but certainly a top four finish was not beyond them.
Most footballers today wouldnt survive 80's wages
Inflation is a thing you utter fool
@@BoiledMilkSteak7 Yeah but it was also because clubs weren't making that much money because tv money wasn't really a thing.
@Darth Pepe £35K
@@BoiledMilkSteak7 even considering inflation, lets say average inflation increase is 50 percent, but player wages 500 percent
Richard Ferdian inflatio is about 1-2%
😂😂That episode when he planted the Galatasaray flag on the pitch, away at Fenerbahce, was absolutely sensational. Still cracks me up to this day. No f***s given, there, by Souey... 😂
I'm glad this has snippets of his class not just the tough bits cause he was one hell of a footballer before being a tough player.
well said
First and foremost Souness wasn't a tough player. He was a thug, pure and simple. Class players often left him for dead and his only answer was to resort to violent assault (they certainly weren't tackles.) That's why he's never been any good as a manager either. He's simply a bully boy who resorts to his big mouth and bad temper when he doesn't get his own way. Just watch him on Sky and you'll see it. He should have been sent off in most of the games he was involved in and he would definitely, without any shadow of a doubt, pick up a lifetime ban if he was still playing in today's games.
@@cyberdonblue4413 yes but he's not playing in today's game and he was a product of the era of game that he played in. You just seem to me that you're someone who talks about football based on the snowflake world that we live in now, rather than someone who's played it. Leave the business of talking football to people who have learnt what they know on the grass, not the tele mate. 👍🏻
@@samwhitehall8545 This snowflake watched (and played) football for 50 odd years. I played at semi-pro level so it's obviously you who learnt your bullshit criticism from the telly. I suggest you take your telly back to your bedroom and and carry on concentrating on your porn films. It's obviously affected your eyesight too much to be able to see proper football. I watched many good hard players in my time. Francis Lee, Norman Hunter, "Chopper" Harris, Billy Bremner, to name but a mere few. Yes, they were nasty at times but not out and out thugs like Souness. They could play the game it was supposed to be played - hard but fair (mostly.) I also took my fair share of knocks in my time as a player (when it was a man's game) and I gave a few knocks out too. I was no saint. It was a time when - if you were subtle enough - you could take your revenge on someone who you felt was being a bit too much. However, any player I ever came across at any standard behaving like Souness quickly ended up with a good all round kicking from one or more of those on the receiving side of that offending players "tackles." Believe me, they were always the ones that came off worse. If you wanted full on thuggery you played Sunday afternoon football where the thugs got drunk in the pub at lunchtime and then went onto a pitch somewhere at chucking out time to look for a fight. See you around snowflake, when lived in the real world for a bit longer!
@@cyberdonblue4413 man you ansererd him so well
He thought you were some new guy who started football in the 2000s
Turns out you have been watching football before his mum was born
As a casualty of late 80s football with a smashed knee cap & torn ACL from a stud up challenge in 1989 ending my chances I agree these modern day players wouldn't last 5 minutes.... took me years to get over the devastation
As a self described casualty, isn't it a good thing that football has become less rough?
@@mintybadgerproductions That's what they are saying.
Professional footballers, aye. The amateurs and semi pros are still very tough games to play in.
Zico made a chump out of Souness in the 1981 World Club Cup Final between, Flamengo & Liverpool. Even Souness said after the game, he couldn't near Zico. Zico was *_THAT_* good!
zico was a cheap pele
DONTSHOOTIMFRI3NDLY who is Pela?
Zico couldnt lace Cruyffs boots and im Scottish!!!.
South-sider Glaswegian is it ok being Scottish!
South-sider Glaswegian I love the highlands.
Those who say that footballers from that era would not be able to play in today's era because of their stamina seem to be blind. Doesn't playing on a poor quality field, with terrible brutality, require high stamina?
Every team had a Souness back during this era. He was one of the best at doing what he did.
leeds had norman hunter
A guy with a moustache and a posh Scottish accent?
@@ronoccc he cut you in half for a comment like that. Souness was one f the best midfielders of his generation. He was as tough as teak but could also play.
@@havennewbowtow8835 hunter played for england
@@ronoccc I know 😂😂😂
5:30 cant stop replaying this and pissing myself....souey was so full of rage at being pushed over, he had to foul someone, anyone, as soon as possible...just cleans out some guy who doesnt even have the ball...brilliant.
Souness was a thug. Some of these "tackles" are potentially career - ending. Deserving of season long bans. Unbloodybelievable
Souness played in the days when real men played football not like the bunch of pansies nowadays, no one died or got seriously injured. Football always was a contact sport you breathe on them nowadays and they fall over... pathetic, big babies the lot of them!!!
Souness was a Scot.
He was also a very good footballer too don’t forget that.
There was more than one "souness" in every team in every league back then. Thats just how the game was played in those days.
George Best played against worse than this, never wore shin guards, and rarely went down. Great times watching a man's game deep in mud.
That penalty at 3:52 - don't think I've ever seen a technique like that.
Souness was a beast of a player and took no sh*t off anyone - except Yozzer Hughes.
Gordon McQueen would have ended his career. 😏
*Violence on the street:* _"These thugs should be jailed forever"_
*Violence on the pitch:* _"I admire your work, Mr. Souness"_
Aye, he filled his troosers when he met yosser 😂
He looks like me
Liverpool in the 80s, Man U in the 90s, Arsenal in the 00s. None of these times would have been half as successful as they were without Souness, Keane and Viera. Yes, they were tough, but by God they could play football. And there isn't a football fan in the country who would not dream of having any of those three in their own team.
Liverpool in the 70s also
I'd have Keano any day
Viera Better player than both.. souness had no technical abilities...
@Football Fan GGMU everything except CL...
@Football Fan GGMU what did keane win compared to Souness
He was the enforcer in different times.
He could score left or right foot and take you out with his left and right feet at the same time.
Who’s here after he called Pickford’s tackle an assault😂😂😭
Me
Me too
Pickford's tackle is nowhere close to what this guy was doing to players, he almost castrated one player, that is not football, football does not need that at all, otherwise after 90 minutes you'll end up with only 2 players in the field.😁
A pundits perspective and a players perspective are very different . When youre on the pitch its extremely competitive and although tackles like these would end up with a heavy suspension you gotta realize football has changed dramatically in so many ways .Souness was pivotal in arguably the best team English football has ever produced ! End of story !
@@darrenagnew7098 sourness is the most overrated player, he was just fouling and bullying player, that’s why even pogba is better than him as he has more goals and assists even though he has played lesser games
This guy is a legend, total respect
This guy would get red carded every game by today’s officiating standards.
But the refereeing standards were very different in the 70s and 80s
@@hugodrax71 do you remember 70s and 80s well, sounds like you don't
@@philmayne6577 I was very much alive and watching football back then and it was a different game in that era. For example, there's a famous story about a modern referee - David Elleray - 're-refereeing' the 1970 FA Cup final replay between Leeds and Chelsea - I think in the late '90s - applying the modern laws. Nobody was sent off by the '70 ref but Elleray said under modern rules he would have awarded 6 red cards (along with 20 yellow cards) in that game. You might want to check out Eddie McCreadie's 'tackle' on Billy Bremner - striaght from the Bruce Lee handbook.
Modern rules suck. They change on the fly.
@@hugodrax71 I was privileged enough to watch football back then too, seen the brutality, played Leeds in the 70s European Cup
Saw Jimmy Johnstone brutalised on a weekly basis etc, you can't confuse that culture with that heathen Souness
Souness was a superb player. Cost a fortune today. Great midfielder. One of Liverpool's best ever players...would get in any of their teams.
he wouldnt get in man city ,liverpool, chelsea, wolves, or any other top ten premier league club, he is too slow for the modern game.
Obviously you’re a Liverpool fan!
@@harrycharlton1459
Funny guy 😂🤣😂
@@harrycharlton1459 he was at least as quick as Henderson
@@harrycharlton1459 You think the modern game is ONLY about speed? So no place for someone who can maintain consistent pace and stamina throughout an entire game?
You do realise that players who were at their peak in their generation would also benefit from all the sports science changes of the modern game too? If you took a player from the 60's, 70's or 80's and gave them the same conditioning, training, nutrition, physio, game analysis feedback and put them on modern playing surfaces with 21st century kit they would most likely do as well as any of the current crop
Souness was really good player. He's very underratted. 80's... Now, imagine that Maradona survived it all and played like an artist.
Maradona was built like a tank despite being 5’5 he could shrug off any tackle
Hes not under rated,everyone know how good he is
@@hotbot4219 He is underrated because he is never on 'Best Players Ever' lists.
@@mikoajdariuszmackowiak2141 ah right, i see your point, perhaps hes under rated by people outside uk. Prem players never seem to win world player of year. He reminds me of roy keane.
@@hotbot4219 Yeah, this is exactly what I mean.
Souness was my favorite player with Pietro Vierchowod.
Always in my heart ❤️
Thank you 😊
Forza Sampdoria!
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An incredible video of a great player! Back when centre-midfield was a battle and matches were won and lost in the middle of the park.
Arn't they lost when one team scores more than the other? So it's at either ends of the pitch.
@@yorkiebilger7805 yes but if you play them out midfield they don't get to your goal line and you play forward to there's
Souness would be red carded in the first 10 minutes of any modern day game. He can speak calmly on tv as a pundit now, but he was an animal as a player
And thank god he became liverpools animal
He was also incredibly gifted. Sometimes you need a bit of steel to get the team working
@@jas0241 As he said to a player after a game why did you not (FKN) PASS IT TO ME I COULDN'T SEE YOU HE PROMPTLY HIT HIM IN THE CHOPS AND SAID CAN YOU SEE ME NOW ,
Different era's, every team had 2 or 3 players like him, minus the football ability of course.
@@interabang ur trying to say players lacked ability that time?
Mark Lawrenson said playing alongside Souness was like having your big brother in the team.
Graeme Souness was a gifted and talented player and often under-rated. He gave great service to his club and country and is fondly remembered at Liverpool as a player. He was also an 'animal'.
That would just about compensate for his destructive period as manager of the club for which he will not be so fondly remembered.
That was his nickname in Italy. L'animale.
Fair play to the vicious, evil bastard.
Dalglish is my all time favourite player but as I get older I'm realising that gap is getting smaller between him and Souness ,great all round player ,yes could be very hard but you've got to remember everyone was over the top in them days ,not many players could score that many long range goals on some of them shite pitches ,one of his most outstanding I seen was a thirty yarder against Peter shilton against Southampton at Anfield, not many can say that 👌
It is not only today's footballers, I'm sure alot of footballers in the 80s didn't survive because of career ending injuries from this tackles.
That's absolutely terrible. You simply can't defend that by saying men were men and now they're snowflakes. A game isn't meant to cripple pple. I for sure don't want to see men maimed and suffer terribly while playing a game I enjoy. There's something really wrong with you if you enjoy this.
Great player, one of the best midfielders in the world in his prime but he was an animal.
I remember when souness was a young man starting out n Johnny Giles got him a beauty up the back of his legs I think that changed souness he became the hardest footballer going but also a great player I think midfielders were scared shit of him but as he got older n slowed down at Rangers the tackles got worst some of them would leave you cringing but what a great player. Great passer n great shot n only Graeme could do that with the flag in Turkey 😂
When football was a contact sport and and not going down on slightest of touches. Bring back the old days.
Agreed! Get up, you sissies! Filming! Yellow card, and if you try that again I'll send you off!
Yes
Best midfielder of his era. Nobody comes close, he had everything, passing, goals, strength, fearless and yes, very intimidating. Just Brilliant.
Souness was a very good midfielder, but I hope you are not seriously traying to say he was as good as or even better than for example Johan Cruyff, Diego Maradona, Zico, Socrates, Lothar Matthäus, Michel Platini, Zbigniew Boniek or Frank Rijkaard.
What a ridiculous comment. Give your head a wobble
@@azdaz7109 No, he did not. Johan Cruyff won just as many European Cups with Ajax (3) as did Souness with Liverpool. Frank Rijkaard won the European Cup twice with Milan and the Champions League once with Ajax.
@@axro yeah I almost want to punch the guy in the face for saying shit like that
In an era that didn’t condemn flesh on your studs, sourness truly was one of the top dirty bastards
wonder why he didn't receive a taste of his own medicine.
Graeme Souness was a hero of mine as part of that great Liverpool team of the 70’s and early 80’s. He had everything. He was a hard tackler, great stamina, was really quick, a very good dribbler of the ball, a great leader, intelligent reader of the game, amazing distribution and a thunderbolt shot. Yeah, he could be a hard man, but football back then was different in an era where physical play was the norm. Let’s not forget that the pitches of the era were often heavy mud pits too, not pristine like today in the op leagues. If Souness was playing today, he wouldn’t be getting sent off all the time, he would have adapted and still been a great player.
He got more aggressive later on in his career when he lost some speed. I agree though some of the tackles are insane.
How many were properly punished?
Have always appreciated his sense of fair play.
Souness was a great technical footballer, a real artist. Not just a hard man. After Dalglish, the best Scottish footballer of my lifetime.
What about Kenny Miller?
Although a great player, his tackles are cowardly over the top, career ending assaults.
He gave as good as he got. There were at least 3 over the top tackles, in every game back then.
The first couple would happen within five minutes, from the kick off. It was known as settng your stall out.
Every good team in the 80s had a player like him in it
Remind me how many careers he ended.
Nonsense Tony. Souness was a complete thug.
@@MrCraigwhyte Exactly...and I'm a Jock...he was a cowardly thug, Kenny Burns sorted him out
For those who watched him week in week out in the 80’s he was maestro - especially for Liverpool. His tackling was of that era - he may have perfected it though 👍
And people say: "Maradona and Schuster had it easier than Messi, because they played against weaker defenders."
Yeah forget about ramos or marcelo when he elbowed messi and broke his nose
@@matt4198 yeah, pepe and boateng are totally better defenders than Maldini, baresi and gentile.
@@lambokiller99 it's not about the defenders... Of course maradona didn't have it easy. Doesn't mean Messi had it easy... 2 completely different eras.... The game has evolved much more dynamically and tactically....u can't compare which players frm different eras had it tougher
They weren’t as skilled or as well trained as today’s world class defenders but it is true that they were way more cuntish! But then the terraces were way more cuntish also! These days i even see the gay flag waved around in the stands, it’s just a different age nowadays than the 1980s.
@@AS-nx9fu the game has evolved to be more attacking and free flowing. In the 70s and 80s, defensive tactics were the most complex they ever were and the quality of defenders was much higher than it is now. The referees also gave defenders free range to do whatever they wanted on the pitch, which is why Maradona is the most fouled footballer of all time.
Back in the days where you were allowed at least one leg breaking tackle before you got booked
said at part ..... it's crazy how old school players had all such high technic...even fighters like Souness
that goal at around about 6.18...stroked from the outside of the boot....absolute quality...
I remember Graeme Souness as a very capable combative midfielder. Yes he had a reputation as a hardman in footballer. But he certainly also had underrated skill to his game. And was not like in his era that he was the only hardman many teams had their own. Tackling was just more brutal and rougher in that era and certain tackles allowed in that era. Are outlawed in todays era of football. And back then referees didn't protect players from rough tackling treatment like they do in the current era. Often the referee would just gesture to the downed player on the end of these tackles to get to their feet and carry on. And most of the time that's what players did back then. Rough tackling was part of the football of the era. Not everyone playing enjoyed the rough treatment but it was expected that you could take it in that era. And when one thinks in past eras of football not all players even wore shin guards either.
Exactly. I was a sissy and therefore stopped playing as a teenager in the mid 80. All defenders were insane war criminals in my opinion, and there was just no way I was going to go anywhere near them. Let me read some sissy poetry instead!
Which further demonstrates that referees didn't have a clue.
@@stephenreeds3632 rules weren't in place probably
"Tackling was just more brutal.." I think even then deliberately stamping on people was frowned upon.
Dont think his skills were ever underrated. Ive seen Sky pundits actually put him in, or close to all time great world teams! His passing and brain were possibly only rivalled by Platini and maybe one or two others in that era.
I started to watch football, particularly Italian football in the nineties, because of talent and skill. I'm Scottish and watching this reminds me of what I hated about Scottish football.
Scotsman here too and I agree. The more this shit is allowed the less talent gets to develop.
Totally disagree,any tackling like that now in Scotland is a straight red. We are producing alot of great young players just now and the national team is improving. Don't get me wrong rangers, celtic and Scotland had great teams in the 90s then we were shit but it's definitely improving
@@Eggyfart83 learn to read before replying pal. You all agree with each other.
I’m always going on about the Icelandic player whose leg Souness broke, while playing for Scotland!!!! I was ashamed of my country. We won 1 :0 Kevin Gallagher. Felt shameful, great player but fuck him!
And italians have always played though asf on the pitch and they have produced most of the best defenders of all time
Btw, anyone saying “he would never get away with it today”
He’d adapt to the boundaries of today’s game. Like he seamlessly adapted to Serie A
Didn’t he break Passarella’s leg in Serie A
@@moons4768 yeah but it was a seamless break
What about var
Like he adapted to management 😂😂
Listen, I repeat; he would make a seamless adaption to today's game. He'd have a tattoo sleeve, a trim every 3 days, and his gf would twerk.
Absolutely so indeed, a lot of wimps out there now, with all the falling down and dancing around the place, crazy stuff, Donie
Had everything a midfielder needs, pace power , hunger , desire and the heart of a lion. Still in my view the greatest captain my team has ever had
That is why we say that Diego Maradona is the greatest...because he dominated the game in spite of all the assaults he had to endure and survive on the pitch in the 80s where all the defenses were the same all over Europe. Teams basically hired hitmen to play defense. Italy was the most notorious of them. Either you or the ball passes through the defense, but not both. Look at the West German Goalkeeper Harald Schumacher's assault on the French player Patrick Battiston and get no red card, not even a foul at the 1982 World Cup Semi-final.
Maradona was wearing most of the time shoes a size or 2 larger because his feet were always swollen and bruised from all the tackles and he still dominated. It's like a famished homeless winning World Strongest Man contest.
The fact that after the butcher of Bilbao broke his ankle, he came back just as good as before, is a miracle in itself.
So because of what players like Maradona had to go through, the rules finally had to change (I am glad they did)..which paved the way for the Messis and Cristianos of today to prosper.
Graeme Souness should be embarrassed of the way he played.
Yea napoli single handed to title
True af he deserves all the credit
Fuck up ya panzy
@@benstewart648 A Scot coming straight to the point l take it?
@@lolavan7750 yes short and sweet
Apparently when Souness was "learning the trade" in his younger days at Middlesbrough, he tried to trip up Johnny Giles, one of the toughest men in football (apart from being a brilliant player) and Giles sent him sprawling on the mud. The story goes that Giles said to him, as he lay on the ground: "don´t worry son, you´ll soon learn"...
Lol..
One thing i'd say.
When he played for sampdoria, he never played dirty with the italian, 👌
@@yaza7845 😁😄 Souness would have made pizza out of the them all... the Italians 😄😁
They worked a lot together as pundits in the 00's as well on Rté
He was sent off for 2 of the above tackles, it was a different era, he was an outstanding footballer, Italy and Serie A only called for the very best talent then. He succeeded in a league were Zico, Maradona, Laudrup Elkjaer, Rumenigge, Baresi, Boniek etc. A limit of 2 foreign players per team, it claimed UCL winners x3 and many more finalists. Sampdoria themselves reached Wembley final. Sourness was phenomenal.
Would love to see Neymar up against Souness.
jebadiah4 would last a nanosecond 💪💙
Ya souness wouldn't even get close to him
That’s child cruelty.
Neymar a prissy wee girl didn't have the humility to shake an 18 Yr old boys hand after a game too he is a prima donna snake the prick
Souness vs Roy Keane💪💪
The guy wasn't playing football he was in a street fight 😂😂
It normal in 70-80's era. Football is man sport back then, it getting more soft after 2000's. and that is not good, becaus so many divers
@@suryoardi7109 how many actual leg breaking challenges? Very few, game was so slow back then. Now players run over 20mph with the ball, different era. If you tackle like Souness today the player would be 10 yards past him already.
@@Solapunk yes it slow back then, but it have logical reason, look at the pitch / field. football field is very bad back then. it very uncomfortable for footballer to play on it, it look slipery, wet and sometimes full of mudd, sometime to dry and grassless on many part. every i watch football match during 60-80's era i never see good field, very worst. thats why we can see classic footballer is find difficult for running. plus they not get have good quality shoes, my father have football shoes from his young time at 70-80's. its bad comparing nowaday shoes, it uncomfortable wearing that, very hard shoes. Imagine all footballer play with all that thing
@@suryoardi7109 yep, very different era. But Graeme would still go down if he could win a penalty. They were still cheats lol
A street fight where his opponent would hardly ever fight back. That's just cowardly bullying!
Best hat trick I ever saw. 1981 European Cup 1/4 final. Great player.
That Steaua Bucharest tackle is iconic, the way he pointed to a dirty mark on his sock afterwards to the ref by way of excuse.
Overall verdict taking everything into account - a disgrace to the game!
Nope.
Different Times but yeah he was a bit excessive alright.
But also the driving force behind much of Liverpool's success in the 1980s with Lawrenson and Hansen.
Wrong.
Massively successful, extremely underrated technically, cynically intelligent & passionate. Occasionally a psychopath.
@@treehousekohtao a scotsman
Souness was an animal. He was undoubtedly the backbone and influential part of LFC team back then.
He was highly regarded at the time for many reasons. His skill, determination and desire cannot be questioned.
But even at the time there were those who thought (and who said) that he was being given license to bully, to intimidate and to injure.
Some commentators laughed off some of his.more overtly unpleasant and violent play. He was not the exception in his day but some of what he got up to (and was allowed to get up to) was not football.
Nostalgia is a lovely thing, but some specs are more rose-tinted than they need to be. He hurt people.
I agree. Good, two-footed player - and a violent thug. Genuinely nasty.
Apart from the tackles... I'd have to admit, his skills are really great, laser precise deliveries
It we all had even 50% of souness mentality and leadership we would all be successful in life
The absolute KING of Scottish hardmen.
Ok
When football and MMA is combined. Souness was a visionary ahead of his time 😂
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lol
Comments like this proves what idiots are still around in football
Could you imagine him and Roy Keane going against each other? It would be a bloodbath!
The smart money would have to be on Souness.
Two nasty whiney spoilt children.
imagine a Pay per view one vs one game with prime soones and prime keane ... ... ... ... ufc takes notes !
manfred898 - not really , both good working class lads
Big dunc would smash the granny out of both of them
The most rare combo of utter grinta and pure skill. if you made an all-time best 11 of football, Souness is in that conversation. He was that good
HAHAHAHA people actually have the audacity to genuinely say Pogba is a better player. Pogba doesn’t come close... this man is one of the best midfielders ever
His fitness levels and physique for a player who played in the 70s and 80s were immense. That’s why he looks so good even now, he’s 68.
Football is not a physically demanding sport. Lol.
did you know his had a tripple heart bypass... doesn't matter how he looks on the outside.. on the inside he is fucked.
@@leadsuspect4964 go play a premier league game and run around virtually none stop for two halves of 45 mins, not to mention going up against all the 13/14 stone 6ft tall midfielders and centre backs and see how long you last.
@@adiabeticturtle2463 Seeing as how I have fought professional fighters in the octagon who have black belts in multiple martial arts I would say I would be able to handle myself just fine.
Compared to boxing and basketball, football is not a physically demanding sport. The main reason is that grass is actually quite friendly for joints. Even tennis is a lot more demanding, where you see someone like Djokovic play a 5 hour match on saturday and then returns on sunday to play a 6 hour match. Usually the top teams play 2-3 time a week.
Honestly I'm not even being a prick. I love football but let's not make it out like it's physically difficult. It's the skill which escapes me. Just go and watch Pacquiao's daily routine and then you realise running around on a grass surface for 90 minutes is difficult.
But hey, I just play sports, what would I know?
@@leadsuspect4964 like anyone is going to believe that load on nonsense you just typed up. Football is a game that requires massive stamina levels, especially in the modern game with all the pressing most teams utilise and constant short sprints that players have to do.
Even more so in the prem were the games are played at a faster pace. And then cb’s and certain types of midfielders and forwards also need to be physically strong.
Anytime I see Souness in a Tottenham shirt, always reminds me of the story how Dave Mackay signed him and the both being from Edinburgh, Mackay telling Souness “Us Gorgie boys need to stick together” Always liked that.
Wow, I never realised Souey had played for Spurs. At the start of his career as well. They must regret letting him go.
Dave Mackay never managed Spurs and I'm fairly sure he'd left by the time Souness was there. But they were both Gorgie boys and Hearts fans.
Won everything , I'd have him in my side every day of the week 😂
timing is everything and he had none of it ,
cardjunkie he had plenty he just liked hurting people.
@@jerryrawlings8885 if you're implying he's two footing opponents and giving them career threatening injuries on purpose, then he's a very disgusting footballer
@@gerald9992 That's exactly what I'm implying it was commonplace in the 60's 70's 80's managers used to encourage it also if you weren't able to mix ii you probably wouldn't make it as a pro back then.
To the contrary his timing was spot on
MAXIMUM pain
@@gerald9992 it was a physical game….
Damn Souness had a strike on him🔥🔥 Defo one of the best Liverpool players ever!
We had King Kenny, Hansen, Rush etc. Pre internet, you only found out the starting 11 on a freezing night somewhere in England at the ground. The only name you cared about was Souness. The temperature would lift. Silk and steel. Team player.
Souness was the fuckin terminator
The best all round midfielder to this day.
Inesta and Xavis's of this world are more technical but Sounes dominated the midfield .He had a cracking shot and never give up attitude. Their wasn't a better team in the world when he played
Saw Graeme Souness coming up behind me a few years ago -had a momentary shiver of fear run down my spine!
@Ed Just gone through customs at Heathrow - still, they've got a far more liberal atmosphere there than they used to.
That reverse ball to Case against Man U was pure class, on his debut as well!
Case was no softy either.
the beautiful game with REAL Men unlike today
There is nothing good about his tackling, it was downright terrible, absolute filth
I love it
@@silloweet
Degenerate
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Watch old firm game from 80s
That was the era. When players were hardmen
Top footballer, even Irn-Bru girders would melt in fear. No quarter asked & none given. Tough & fearsome he would carve oppositions apart. Swarthy like a Caribbean pirate he swashbuckled with Liverpool & gave grit when the tough was needed. Salute.
Well said ... a legend as a player, no doubt about it.
Now that you have made a video of souness,we are all expecting a video of Roy Keane as well.
Messi is the greatest of all time
Keane was very good but would have been destroyed by Souness .. GS was very calm and he was a huge man .. Keane would have pace on him but would have walked away from Souness.. Only McMahon took him on and Souness put a 5 inch scar down his calf from behind! When needed GS was an cunning animal! Although in 1986 World Cup he backed off from a Uruguayan head case and didn't fancy it against Argentinian Daniel Passarella! The 1978 World Cup winning captain a top hard case in the Italian league!
Oooh yeah, he was such a bad boy. But no one today will question the player rolling on the floor, like he's just survived an assassination attempt, carrying on for the rest of the game.