Graeme Sourness | Retires from “punditry”

Keys basically saying (via people he knows at Sky) he was fired for making the "Man's game" comment earlier in the season and his continued punditry would indicate he has not retired. Reckon's Martin Tyler could be in the firing line for his comments about Son (I don't know what he said).
 
Rhyme Animal said:
Yeah, actually to be fair that was a pretty good little speech and I think he meant it.
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Not seen this before and surprised me (that he went to Pride). Gone up in my estimation. When he was good with his punditry, he was actually usually sport on. When he was bad, we might have well been listening to Donald Duck!
 
Loon said:
Keys basically saying (via people he knows at Sky) he was fired for making the "Man's game" comment earlier in the season and his continued punditry would indicate he has not retired. Reckon's Martin Tyler could be in the firing line for his comments about Son (I don't know what he said).
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He likened a tackle Son made to martial arts if I remember right.
 
Loon said:
Keys basically saying (via people he knows at Sky) he was fired for making the "Man's game" comment earlier in the season and his continued punditry would indicate he has not retired. Reckon's Martin Tyler could be in the firing line for his comments about Son (I don't know what he said).
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I'd take that with a large dose of salt. Keys is a self-serving twat who loves to peddle a conspiracy theory, especially if it helps his hard-done-by narrative.
 
Withnail said:
I'd take that with a large dose of salt. Keys is a self-serving twat who loves to peddle a conspiracy theory, especially if it helps his hard-done-by narrative.
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How Keys feels hard done by is hilarious. Clips of him making horrible cringe worthy comments, "did you smash it?", "bet you were hanging out the back of it" and suchlike.

Man should be absolutely embarrassed.
 
Sky Sports forced to apologise for Graeme Souness' racist comments
Souness labelled Lamela's behaviour at half-time on the Sky Sports show as "pathetic" and "very Latin"


Never forget.
 
Sandikan said:
How Keys feels hard done by is hilarious. Clips of him making horrible cringe worthy comments, "did you smash it?", "bet you were hanging out the back of it" and suchlike.

Man should be absolutely embarrassed.
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Wasn’t he shagging his daughter’s friend while his wife had cancer? I don’t think shame is one of his two emotions.
 
Pure class from Souness on BBC 1 Breakfast this morning - completely changed my opinion on him as a person.

A very moving watch on iPlayer if anyone missed it.........
 
His combined United/dippers XI the other day just confirmes what a biased and deluded scouse cnut he is.
 
It's nice being reminded that some things are bigger than football, even if it's Souness doing the reminding.

In all seriousness, hats off to him. Outside of punditry he seems like a decent bloke, pretty progressive too.
 
Mmm-Qatarian said:
I'd say it's extremely impressive.

To be honest, shite footballing takes aside, Souness seems like a fairly good bloke.
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Yeah, I remember him talking about homophobia during his playing days and how he had learned a lot by attending some pride events. He's definitely not all bad.
 
I shall put aside all cynicism at the timing of his charitable effort following his departure from Sky…
 
Murder on Zidane's Floor said:
I think it's just good PR tbh.
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Meh. Generally speaking, if we want to move forward we can't be that negative and cynical towards the people that might be a bit late to the party or whatever. In my opinion, he's done a positive thing by speaking openly about it on television - he might even have moved a few people his own age a bit. No reason to take a shit on that.
 
I'm also beginning to lean towards the view that I don't really care anymore why someone donates to charity or speaks up for marginalised groups or against wrongdoings. I used to care more about peoples motivations but I just don't think it matters that much, it's the act that makes the difference in my opinion.

Obviously there are extreme exceptions to every rule so let's not get into them.
 
Murder on Zidane's Floor said:
I mean it was like 2018, not 2008, he's a bit late to the party.
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Eh? Souness was best friends with the very openly gay Dale Winton for decades before that.

The first black player for Liverpool (Howard Gayle) noted in his autobiography that he suffered racist abuse from his own teammates with the notable exception of... Graeme Souness, who defended him to the hilt.

Souey may be a bitter Scouse bastard, but he was sticking up for minorities back when racism and homophobia were considered the norm. He'd be cool if he wasn't a Scouser.
 
BerryBerryShrew said:
Eh? Souness was best friends with the very openly gay Dale Winton for decades before that.

The first black player for Liverpool (Howard Gayle) noted in his autobiography that he suffered racist abuse from his own teammates with the notable exception of... Graeme Souness, who defended him to the hilt.

Souey may be a bitter Scouse bastard, but he was sticking up for minorities back when racism and homophobia were considered the norm. He'd be cool if he wasn't a Scouser.
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I think that’s overselling it a bit.
 
Are people actually giving him a hard time for swimming the channel at the age of 70 for charity? What are you like?
 
Loon said:
I shall put aside all cynicism at the timing of his charitable effort following his departure from Sky…
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I talked about this charity work earlier in the thread. He's been working with Debra for years without much noise. As someone that suffers from EB and has worked with Debra, this TV appearance was a genius move because the charity had been trying hard to get info about the condition out but always failed. It seems to have finally got the message across.
 
He does seem to come across as a decent bloke away from football. Wasn't aware of this condition myself so I'd say it's definitely helping to raise awareness. Good luck to him for the swim, hopefully he raises plenty of money.
 
He's more handsome than even most 70 year old movie stars are.

Glad to see him away from the punditry though.
Odd character who is as disliked by United and Liverpool fans which takes some doing.
 
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