Graeme Sourness | Retires from “punditry”
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One of the highlights of the 90s and 2000s was watching Hansen, Lawrenson and Souness make the transformation to pundits. They obviously thought the Liverpool domination was going to continue. (and so did I).
So how wonderful to watch all 3 getting a 20 year slow death by a thousand cuts.
To be fair to Hansen and Lawrenson, they gradually accepted it. But Souness is still dying inside every time we win a trophy and is incapable of hiding it. Brilliant.
So how wonderful to watch all 3 getting a 20 year slow death by a thousand cuts.
To be fair to Hansen and Lawrenson, they gradually accepted it. But Souness is still dying inside every time we win a trophy and is incapable of hiding it. Brilliant.
Yeah he’s getting to be a real cantankerous sourpuss over the years. He isn’t too far away from going full Summerbee. I went to an after dinner event where Grobelaar was the main speaker and even he said Souness was a shit manager.
Also I’m fairly sure he dyes his eyebrows which I always found weird, considering he was a proto Roy Keane... but after reading his close friendship with Dale Winton, it starts to make a whole lot of sense.
Also I’m fairly sure he dyes his eyebrows which I always found weird, considering he was a proto Roy Keane... but after reading his close friendship with Dale Winton, it starts to make a whole lot of sense.
Look at his face! (bottom-left pic):
Hasnt Souness been in poor health for the last 30 years or something? I sort of get why he's a misery all the time after all the health scares he's had, but fecking hell. Live life last its your last day and all that. He's hardly the life and soul is he?
Most pundits, whether British or American, are completely useless waste of air. Almost all of them have a narrative that they continuously promote, and none of them ever offer any kind of insight that one can't overhear in a pub. They look at the result and work their way back to the often incorrect conclusion; the team that lost is 99% of time labeled as "not good enough" (or some other tired phrase) and the team that won "deserves the credit".
They reserve a special kind of contempt for Mourihno and never give him any credit for anything, most likely because he likes to point out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes (i.e. calling them out for being envious phonies who spit at little girls if their fathers support a rival).
They reserve a special kind of contempt for Mourihno and never give him any credit for anything, most likely because he likes to point out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes (i.e. calling them out for being envious phonies who spit at little girls if their fathers support a rival).
I often think it must have been a journalist's wet dream when Mourinho came to UTD: it was the perfect synthesis of comedy villain & evil corporation, rapidly spawning the Anti-Christ of entertaining football.
The very same hacks who used to empty their bollocks into “the master tactician” when he was at Chelsea.
Is that really what he said? For real?
Yes. It's all over the news. Have you been living under a rock for the past 24 hours?
He is not worth that much to listened to
Good post. Totally agree. It spawns very boring conversations with people that just little to a little analysis.
What did Pogba do to him?
It's getting so boring him mentioning Pogba every 5minutes, give it a rest will you? Such a moody old person.
Wait what? He mentioned Pogba again? For what ocassion this time around?
Said Deschamps has the same problem as Mourinho in that he doesn't know where to play Pogba, and that Pogba will most likely be an impact sub for France haha
Was that his post match summary after the CL final?
What a weirdo.
You are bound to be one if come from Liverpool. I dont think any of Liverpool's ex have ever been normal on comms.
Are we to believe that Graeme is an avid watcher of the French national team?
The trouble is that, even if he makes valid points, it just sounds like an older man continually picking on & not understanding young people and their ways. After a while, you tune out regardless of his views.
He’s obsessed and it’s become uncomfortable. Someone should have a word with him.
Graeme Souness on Pogba: “He is not disciplined. In two or three years he might develop into a holding midfield player but I am not quite sure what he is at the moment.”
"You can go through his pluses; he's got great athleticism and technique but he doesn't play the game in his head."
Yeah no stereotyping at all there. Let it fecking go already you scouse bastard.
"You can go through his pluses; he's got great athleticism and technique but he doesn't play the game in his head."
Yeah no stereotyping at all there. Let it fecking go already you scouse bastard.
Is this after today?
If it was it just shows that he decides what he’s going to say beforehand. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Pogba play so intelligently.
He's actually obsessed
Yesterday.
No.
What he is right now is one of the top performing CMs of the world cup. Shut up Graeme.
He's from Edinburgh..
Secret Liverpool fan you mate.
He’s a cantankerous old jock (apologies to all my cholesterol-ridden; scotch-doused, chainsmoking Jock friends), but you have to admire anyone a little when they have the desire to do something like this:
Like I said before his obsession is disturbing at this point.
Unsurprisingly, young black players are to blame, while Kane gets a pass:
Souness goes in hard on Lingard, Dele Alli and England ~
https://www.football365.com/news/souness-goes-in-hard-on-lingard-dele-alli-and-england
Souness goes in hard on Lingard, Dele Alli and England ~
https://www.football365.com/news/souness-goes-in-hard-on-lingard-dele-alli-and-england
He's absolutely right.
His analysis after the Eng game was spot on. No creativity in the Eng mid was the issue. You'd a defensive mid in Henderson, with runners in Alli and Lingard. No one who wants to put their foot on the ball and looks to make that pass. Alli and Lingard want on the end of passes, Henderson can't make them. He had a pop at the backline also, they stopped looked for the ball from the keeper and stopped carrying the ball out, hence Pickford hitting it long. Not always a fan of his analysis but he was spot on here
He's right and plenty of us saw it coming. Henderson was running in circles against Modric. It needed someone next to him who actually wanted to be in midfield instead of pushing forward.