In my eyes, the most influential player Liverpool have ever had. I watched him in a league game at Old Trafford, be about 1983, the rest of the team played in a circle around him. He dictated all there play, and he touched the ball 30 plus times in the 1st half. Liverpool was winning European Cups for fun back then. Wilkins was a top player for us back then, he could also play and pass it about . Souness used to hit him hard in the first 5mins and that was Wilkins out the game. More clever than dirty. Fantastic player and my favourite pundit
Graeme Souness was my childhood hero and Liverpool my favourite team then and now. Yes, Souness could participate in the dark arts, but his dribbling, passing, shooting, and ability to control a game and take it by the scruff of the neck was just spectacular! Graeme Souness will always be my #1 LFC player of all time.
Everton fan here- a fabulous player, how I wished he played in our midfield instead of the rs's. I hated yet massively admired him, he was soooo influential for Liverpool. Absolute quality.
A midfield assassin. The majority of his brutal tackles were calculated to cause maximum damage to the opposition team. Younger fans don't realise that was the way it was back then. Every decent team had a player that could tackle like Souness. Every. Single. One. The difference was - Souness was also a world class midfielder. He terrorised Europe for a decade and when he started in midfield against Holland at the 78 world cup he drove Scotland to a famous victory. The amazing thing was hecdifn't get a game v Iran and there's no way we would have drawn that game with Souness on the pitch. I rate Souness above Dalglish as Souness was the engine of Liverpool and Scotland. A true legend.
He wasn't a loon but if you had a rep he may get his revenge in 1st. Also one of the only players you can say were truly unbullyable. World class in ALL other departments too. If Rice is worth £100M, Souey would be worth £300M in todays market
Tougher than Yosser Hughes. What a player he was, True Liverpool legend! He wasn't just a hard man dishing it out, he REALY COULD PLAY, beautiful passes, great goals and above all a natural born leader on te pitch!
Probably the most underrated if not least mentioned captain of Liverpool if any football club! Kinda like a roy keen,Duncan Ferguson and Stevei G rolled into one talented beast of a n old school footballer!
Pure genius. A delight to watch him on those tough old pitches back in the day. These modern players on silky smooth pitches have no idea what it would be like to trip and fall about the place
One of my favourite Liverpool Players growing up! Brilliant Footballer and probably the greatest influence on me during my playing days, as I very often left my foot in and collected cards!
@@richardcoats6430 I'd have to agree.And even he regrets some of that stuff now.Where as some old pros seem to see it all as a nudge nudge wink wink laugh....unless they had their careers ended by it of course
Modern 'people' have become soft let alone aththletes. just look at the Sean Dyche incident the other day "FFS grow a pair, STFU and drive your Bentley".🤣🤣🤣🤣
Souness was absolutely superb player he somehow put a power into the gsme that lifted it to the amazing levels that has grown to today. Graham Souness and Kenny Dalgliesh are the 2 greatest Scottish players that ever lived!
Watching Liverpool in the 80s there was a saying, 'If Souness plays well liverpool play well'. And on the rare occasions he was off it Liverpool would be too.
Souness had the rights…the king.. and a honest man.. and a heart of gold… helping good causes.. he was quite ruthless but he knew he was a target early on he receive some nasty tackles.. no one sees them just the ones he gave out.. a judge on the park you mix it with my teams… and I,ll take the rap
When you think of the dominance of English teams in Europe from late 70s till Heysal, the Scottish players who were vital here, Souness, Robertson, Gray, Hansen, Dalglish to name a few, then the strong players Abedeen had in winning the CWC, Dundee Utd getting to EC semi final they were 2 up in, then the odd star at old firm clubs, how this Scottish national team achieved nothing is quite beyond me. Think as this summers euros showed its a mentality problem. Have no belief, and never have had
I had the privilege to pick up this legend when I was a taxi driver 6 years ago and spend an hour listening to his stories as a player and a manager, what an experience the best 60 minutes of my life.
One thing about a lot of these “hard men”was it was very much paradoxical because they could really play because if they were only hard or difficult they would have been a liability to their teams but they were not. They new when to put the boot in & when to strike the ball. They were brilliant.
Souness was one of my favourite players when I was growing up and I tried to base my game on his and Bryan Robson's Souey could pass, shoot, tackle, control a game and be ultra competitive......not sure about heading though. For me he didn't get enough credit for his technical ability. He was a strong charismatic leader, who led by example, and a winner. For me a very good footballer!
If Graeme was to get picked for either Barcelona, Bayern, Madrid, Inter Milan or AC Milan, he would be the engine in the team making sure everything is working correctly. That team would be world beaters. Souness is a Scottish Legend
Liverpool won 4 out of 6 champions leagues in the late 70s and early 80s. Barca didn’t win their 4th champions league trophy until 2011. Inter doesn’t have 4 champions league trophies *today*. The late 70s and early 80s - ie Graeme’s prime - were a very mixed bag for them. They weren’t in the same stratosphere as Liverpool, hamburger sv, vila, forest, etc. Similarly, AC Milan was absolute crap during this era, winning one serie A in 1980 and immediately getting eliminated out of the champions league the next year. They were also relegated to serie B in 1981, the same year Liverpool beat Real Madrid to win the champions league. They were levels below juve and to a lesser extent Roma during this time. Not in the same conversation as Liverpool. Graeme was the right man. And he was on the right team. *The* European giants of his career. Liverpool FC.
@@gavintuesday4959more than close to being world beaters. They were the best club team in the world. Seriously, they were just astonishing with Souness, Dalglish, Rush etc.
I'm not a Liverpool fan, in fact I hate them. ( who doesn't ) .... But Souness was a brilliant p!ayer. He's also a good human being . I respect him, and that's the highest compliment you can give someone in my opinion
@howwwwwyyyyy I know the game should not have been played but it was, BUT had Souness been playing in Heysel he would have run the show and LFC would have won. I know the arguments about it but that d**k Platini running round after scoring a penalty which was 10 yards outside the box still galls me. Souness was a warrior.
Don’t get the fawning over Stevie G . Rarely did Stevie G get the better of the top midfielders of his period, whether for club or country , never mind being compared to club legends
At Boro Souness perhaps faced a guy that was actully harder than him had the scars and medals to prove it too... I miss BIG JACK and characters like him.
Souness is a bloke you'd want in your side... never going to back down, never going to back out of a tackle and when the going gets rough he's going to look after you and everyone else. Total warrior. Respect from a Spurs fan.
the best player i Ever SAW against my beloved Everton, ......WHEN OUR MOMENT CAME liverpool got their own way again, and fucked us over, great player shite selfish club, always managed to get their own way..... your welcome to it, all these years later i cannot forgive or forget. ,and to think i had a grudging respect as your club did....ONCE UPON A TIME
@@tonydixon9579 thankyou Tony and apart from Everton and all they mean to me, George was the best player to grace the goodison turf.... Thank you for your comment, stay well and UP THE TOFFEES.
Souness is rarely talked about amongst younger Liverpool fans today. He was world class. He could do everything on the pitch. And to think that Maradona managed to be the best in the era where midfielders would tackle everyone like that just shows what kinda player Maradona was.
The focus is so often on his aggression and how he would be unable to perform today. I have no doubt this is well wide of the mark given his fitness, mobility, passing range and tactical awareness. He was a superstar then,he would be a superstar now.
I agree with a lot of what is said in other comments,Souness has a reputation for wreckless tackles but he was a great player as well.But Ronnie Whelan was ten times better than any anchorman in England.
16:56 "all of the SO CALLED best players were in Italy" ...now THAT is confidence, add that to his charisma and sheer talent and you really do have a special player.
Graham started off with Middlesbrough but the Boro were always in financial trouble back then so they had to sell players to stay solvent, that's how Graham got to Liverpool. At one time Liverpool had six ex-Boro players running out for them.
@@moons4768 I forgot ! but you named 3 from the A team, I reckon there were some from the academy. In any event, back then the Evening Gazette reported that Liverpool had 6 ex-Boro Players on their staff.
@@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq I am not arguing, but can only find 3, earlier mentioned here above, but nevertheless, Souness and Johnston gave good service to Liverpool, Hodgson faded quickly.
@@joacimnieminen Souness should never have been sold by Middlesbrough but they had financial difficulties so selling players was the only way out. Just for information, Eric McMordie and George Best came over on the boat from Ireland, the Boro signed Mc Mordie but did not have the money to sign George Best, a tragedy.
He never séemed to get carded - which is remarkable, not even the odd yellow. I think referees were indulgent of Liverpool back then, especially at Anfield which could be a very intimidating environment in which to officiate.
Absolute world class warrior. Never gets talked of enough as one of the Greats. Would dominate Midfields today.
Well said and so true!
He’d be sent off every match.
@@FiveFiveSixer he would adapt his game as required!
I was also born in Edinburgh and lived in a pre-fab then a council house in the Dumbiedykes. Proud of him!
@@FiveFiveSixeryou beat me to it 😂, I loved him at Rangers.
I love watching footage from the old days, different people. Better men
And better players... none of this falling over to win a free kick...
In my eyes, the most influential player Liverpool have ever had. I watched him in a league game at Old Trafford, be about 1983, the rest of the team played in a circle around him. He dictated all there play, and he touched the ball 30 plus times in the 1st half. Liverpool was winning European Cups for fun back then. Wilkins was a top player for us back then, he could also play and pass it about . Souness used to hit him hard in the first 5mins and that was Wilkins out the game. More clever than dirty.
Fantastic player and my favourite pundit
Fantastic Footballer one of the best Midfielders that’s ever played the game. ⚒️
Quality player, part of Liverpool's best ever midfield 4 (Case, Souness, Mcdermott and Kennedy) Hard but boy could be play.
Souness would make ANY team from ANY era unbeatable. A fantastic footballer.
Graeme Souness was my childhood hero and Liverpool my favourite team then and now. Yes, Souness could participate in the dark arts, but his dribbling, passing, shooting, and ability to control a game and take it by the scruff of the neck was just spectacular! Graeme Souness will always be my #1 LFC player of all time.
Seen him and Kenny hundreds of time live at anfeild I cried when he left
That era were proper men playing a tough game
I’m a Man Utd fan. This man was world class. Bobby Charlton and Graeme in any world 11. Class.
Sounesswas world class at his peak would have walked into any team
Everton fan here- a fabulous player, how I wished he played in our midfield instead of the rs's. I hated yet massively admired him, he was soooo influential for Liverpool. Absolute quality.
A midfield assassin. The majority of his brutal tackles were calculated to cause maximum damage to the opposition team. Younger fans don't realise that was the way it was back then. Every decent team had a player that could tackle like Souness. Every. Single. One. The difference was - Souness was also a world class midfielder. He terrorised Europe for a decade and when he started in midfield against Holland at the 78 world cup he drove Scotland to a famous victory. The amazing thing was hecdifn't get a game v Iran and there's no way we would have drawn that game with Souness on the pitch. I rate Souness above Dalglish as Souness was the engine of Liverpool and Scotland. A true legend.
He wasn't a loon but if you had a rep he may get his revenge in 1st.
Also one of the only players you can say were truly unbullyable.
World class in ALL other departments too.
If Rice is worth £100M, Souey would be worth £300M in todays market
👍 Leeds had about a half dozen players who tackled like that, in that era, didn't they? 😂
Tougher than Yosser Hughes. What a player he was, True Liverpool legend! He wasn't just a hard man dishing it out, he REALY COULD PLAY, beautiful passes, great goals and above all a natural born leader on te pitch!
Hard man?🤣🤣🤣soccer player kicking someone when they're not looking, Scotch c...
Harder than Yosser! 😮 Gizza ball! ⚽ Lol
@@DJCoachCookie68 🤣🤣🤣 "I can do that, I can play footie" and better looking by far ...
@@adelhartreisig9020scotch 😂😂
Souness was an Awesome Player..He Won Everything....
Probably the most underrated if not least mentioned captain of Liverpool if any football club! Kinda like a roy keen,Duncan Ferguson and Stevei G rolled into one talented beast of a n old school footballer!
Couldn't agree MORE!
Perfect description. He'd be worth 100M plus this day and age..
Just when you think you've heard it all "Graeme Souness underrated" Absolutely the dumbest thing i've ever read, Jesus fucking christ.
Pure genius. A delight to watch him on those tough old pitches back in the day. These modern players on silky smooth pitches have no idea what it would be like to trip and fall about the place
Soft lot these players now.
One of the Best ever a true warrior of the game
One of my favourite Liverpool Players growing up! Brilliant Footballer and probably the greatest influence on me during my playing days, as I very often left my foot in and collected cards!
Great show great footballer
Shoot,pass tackle,what's not to love?Great player.
Ergh....leg breaker?
@@randybackgammon890 yes he had a fairly robust approach to the game, still a great player though.
@@richardcoats6430 I'd have to agree.And even he regrets some of that stuff now.Where as some old pros seem to see it all as a nudge nudge wink wink laugh....unless they had their careers ended by it of course
World class player end of all time great
Good to see Jackie Charlton get a mention. Wasn’t just for Ireland , he did well with other clubs as a manager
What a player , would walk into any team , if he was in his pomp now my goodness, Rice 100 million he couldnt lace Souness boots
Modern 'people' have become soft let alone aththletes. just look at the Sean Dyche incident the other day "FFS grow a pair, STFU and drive your Bentley".🤣🤣🤣🤣
respect for Souness, a very great player in my eyes, a son of the thunder He is
Love Souness great player hard as nails grew up watching him brilliant ❤
Changed football with every move he made ...what a human !
Too m any nowadays just think of him as a hard man but he was the best footballing hard man ever. Champagne Charlie!
Brilliant. Guys an absolute legend
If someone is willing to pay £100m for Jack Grealish imagine what Souness would be worth in todays market.
Souness was absolutely superb player he somehow put a power into the gsme that lifted it to the amazing levels that has grown to today. Graham Souness and Kenny Dalgliesh are the 2 greatest Scottish players that ever lived!
I would have Souness in my team no questions asked. He was such a great player. He had it all. A true legend
Top top player souness
A brilliant Player and Captain for LFC. YNWA
What a player ..
One of the best
Watching Liverpool in the 80s there was a saying, 'If Souness plays well liverpool play well'. And on the rare occasions he was off it Liverpool would be too.
Paisley said that of Mcmahon. Another great player
Souness had the rights…the king.. and a honest man.. and a heart of gold… helping good causes.. he was quite ruthless but he knew he was a target early on he receive some nasty tackles.. no one sees them just the ones he gave out.. a judge on the park you mix it with my teams… and I,ll take the rap
Met him in Rome at hotel top top fella an a great player an captain
Top, top player and a genuine person, wore the badge on his sleeve.
Souness is class.
Less
Any club in tne league would have loved him in there team ..
YESSSSSS!
The greatest player to ever pull on the red shirt, my idol as a young boy.
Quite a statement there.
He is the reason why I support Liverpool to this day , the greatest Scottish player ever
Dalglish?
United fan great respect.
sort of forgotten just how good he was
I just love the guy ...YNWA
Great documentary. Lovely to see the great, mad Bruce Grobbellar again.
Throw matches to line his pockets.......he admitted it on a documentary.
Trying to pick Liverpool’s greatest ever player between Souey and Dalglish is like trying to pick best Beatle out of Lennon and McCartney...
Great player 👍🏴❤️
When you think of the dominance of English teams in Europe from late 70s till Heysal, the Scottish players who were vital here, Souness, Robertson, Gray, Hansen, Dalglish to name a few, then the strong players Abedeen had in winning the CWC, Dundee Utd getting to EC semi final they were 2 up in, then the odd star at old firm clubs, how this Scottish national team achieved nothing is quite beyond me. Think as this summers euros showed its a mentality problem. Have no belief, and never have had
I had the privilege to pick up this legend when I was a taxi driver 6 years ago and spend an hour listening to his stories as a player and a manager, what an experience the best 60 minutes of my life.
Loved him as a player, manager and now as a pundit. An exceptional human being.
One thing about a lot of these “hard men”was it was very much paradoxical because they could really play because if they were only hard or difficult they would have been a liability to their teams but they were not. They new when to put the boot in & when to strike the ball. They were brilliant.
Legend
Doesn't get enough praise that he should what a very hard man
He always showed up !
Legendary
Souness was one of my favourite players when I was growing up and I tried to base my game on his and Bryan Robson's
Souey could pass, shoot, tackle, control a game and be ultra competitive......not sure about heading though.
For me he didn't get enough credit for his technical ability.
He was a strong charismatic leader, who led by example, and a winner. For me a very good footballer!
If Graeme was to get picked for either Barcelona, Bayern, Madrid, Inter Milan or AC Milan, he would be the engine in the team making sure everything is working correctly. That team would be world beaters. Souness is a Scottish Legend
Weren’t Liverpool close to being world betters when Souness played for them. Barca and Real Madrid weren’t all that back then
Eh, didn’t he help Liverpool to be world beaters during his time ?
The game I wished tyey had won the game 1981 brazilian team
Liverpool won 4 out of 6 champions leagues in the late 70s and early 80s. Barca didn’t win their 4th champions league trophy until 2011.
Inter doesn’t have 4 champions league trophies *today*. The late 70s and early 80s - ie Graeme’s prime - were a very mixed bag for them. They weren’t in the same stratosphere as Liverpool, hamburger sv, vila, forest, etc.
Similarly, AC Milan was absolute crap during this era, winning one serie A in 1980 and immediately getting eliminated out of the champions league the next year. They were also relegated to serie B in 1981, the same year Liverpool beat Real Madrid to win the champions league. They were levels below juve and to a lesser extent Roma during this time. Not in the same conversation as Liverpool.
Graeme was the right man. And he was on the right team. *The* European giants of his career. Liverpool FC.
@@gavintuesday4959more than close to being world beaters. They were the best club team in the world. Seriously, they were just astonishing with Souness, Dalglish, Rush etc.
Always found Graham such an engaging talker. Ace bloke. Legendary player.
I'm not a Liverpool fan, in fact I hate them. ( who doesn't ) .... But Souness was a brilliant p!ayer. He's also a good human being . I respect him, and that's the highest compliment you can give someone in my opinion
Millions of people love Liverpool 👍 for your information
Still a legend at sampadoria I heard.
What a fantastic player. Was my favourite mid field player.
Undoubtedly one of Scotland’s greatest ever players 🏴❤️
Far worse than the likes of Law and Dalglish, Bremner etc
Not sure how you've come to that equation when he literally ran midfield in some of Liverpool's best ever teams.
@@Eclipse2582 lousy opposition
@vaseofflowers4619won the 84 cup for us
@howwwwwyyyyy I know the game should not have been played but it was, BUT had Souness been playing in Heysel he would have run the show and LFC would have won. I know the arguments about it but that d**k Platini running round after scoring a penalty which was 10 yards outside the box still galls me. Souness was a warrior.
Fearsome player.
Six goals in Europe for us and two hatricks I think.
Better than Steven Gerrard in my opinion. Got the trophies to prove it too. Best LFC captain ever.
Both in best 11
Don’t get the fawning over Stevie G . Rarely did Stevie G get the better of the top midfielders of his period, whether for club or country , never mind being compared to club legends
@@gavintuesday4959you know nothing about football clearly
If they played in the same team souness would of been the captain
Souey would have made Stevie Me a MUCH better player - no way would he have tolerated all those attempted Hollywood / lottery passes
The greatest player ever for Liverpool
Watp what a player
Fab player
Legend……Legend…….Legend
He would be in the all time greatest Liverpool team
First name on the teamsheet & captain
Souness was the drive and spirit behind the great team of his day.
At Boro Souness perhaps faced a guy that was actully harder than him had the scars and medals to prove it too... I miss BIG JACK and characters like him.
Souness is a bloke you'd want in your side... never going to back down, never going to back out of a tackle and when the going gets rough he's going to look after you and everyone else. Total warrior. Respect from a Spurs fan.
the best player i Ever SAW against my beloved Everton, ......WHEN OUR MOMENT CAME liverpool got their own way again, and fucked us over, great player shite selfish club, always managed to get their own way..... your welcome to it, all these years later i cannot forgive or forget. ,and to think i had a grudging respect as your club did....ONCE UPON A TIME
the best player i Ever SAW against my beloved Everton" I salute you Sir
@@tonydixon9579 thankyou Tony and apart from Everton and all they mean to me, George was the best player to grace the goodison turf.... Thank you for your comment, stay well and UP THE TOFFEES.
World class 👍
He has that perfect balance of arrogance and modesty we could all learn from
Souness is rarely talked about amongst younger Liverpool fans today. He was world class. He could do everything on the pitch.
And to think that Maradona managed to be the best in the era where midfielders would tackle everyone like that just shows what kinda player Maradona was.
The General ❤❤❤❤
Won a cup for my team Blackburn Rovers excellent manager 👍
Force of Nature !
The greatest 19 big honours from 78-84 6 runner up medals or suttin simply the greatest midfielder I’ve ever seen
Absolute Legend. World class and some more....If aliens where to come and take a player back to there planet it would be him.😉
RIP Luca Vialli
What a great player he was,hard to believe he brought a wrecking ball to Liverpool and did untold damage in just under 3 years
The focus is so often on his aggression and how he would be unable to perform today. I have no doubt this is well wide of the mark given his fitness, mobility, passing range and tactical awareness. He was a superstar then,he would be a superstar now.
He was a lion on the pitch.
The man is a Scottish football God
… who never got out of the group stage.
@@theycantallbezodiac what did I misunderstand?
I agree with a lot of what is said in other comments,Souness has a reputation for wreckless tackles but he was a great player as well.But Ronnie Whelan was ten times better than any anchorman in England.
And equally nasty
Yep I forget how good Ronnie Whelan was
16:56 "all of the SO CALLED best players were in Italy" ...now THAT is confidence, add that to his charisma and sheer talent and you really do have a special player.
He wasn't wrong managing Liverpool, just tried to change too much, too quick.
Awful decision to take the Liverpool job at that time.
Dressing room full of (probably opinionated players) at the fag end of their careers.
Graham started off with Middlesbrough but the Boro were always in financial trouble back then so they had to sell players to stay solvent, that's how Graham got to Liverpool. At one time Liverpool had six ex-Boro players running out for them.
I can only name three….Souness, Johnstone and Hodgson. Who were the other three?
@@moons4768 I forgot ! but you named 3 from the A team, I reckon there were some from the academy. In any event, back then the Evening Gazette reported that Liverpool had 6 ex-Boro Players on their staff.
@@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq I am not arguing, but can only find 3, earlier mentioned here above, but nevertheless, Souness and Johnston gave good service to Liverpool, Hodgson faded quickly.
@@joacimnieminen Souness should never have been sold by Middlesbrough but they had financial difficulties so selling players was the only way out. Just for information, Eric McMordie and George Best came over on the boat from Ireland, the Boro signed Mc Mordie but did not have the money to sign George Best, a tragedy.
He started off at Tottenham
If someone like Gianluca Vialli said the best midfielder he ever played with or against. Then your comment seems bitter and resentful.
Gerrard not worthy to clean souness's boots. A great privilege to see his whole liverpool career in the flesh, what a player, unbeatable.
Players today would NEVER be able to cope in these days.
Totally agree soft as anything today's players....
Inspiring man
I need Kevin Keegan The King!
He never séemed to get carded - which is remarkable, not even the odd yellow. I think referees were indulgent of Liverpool back then, especially at Anfield which could be a very intimidating environment in which to officiate.
This is legacy. Pogba will never have a football's greatest documentary made on him😂
Again, spot on!
Hilarious! :D
Needed saying, though!
Souness will never be in a rap video though......😉