Graeme Souness

you've got to be extremely special to get away with that on a hard nine months of an English Premier League season.

That will bite you somewhere along the line.

You've got to be more pragmatic.

You've got to be nicking games.

It's because you've lost some of your best attacking players.

You've got to have a plan B on occasion.

I think Newcastle that year just had one intention to outscore whoever they played against, but it was a great watch.

It was a near miss for them, wasn't it?

deal with as players so I think that he was very much into the detail of the sort of the battle on match day the mental battle things like that When you talk about the mental Sorry I can remember Fergie saying things like before big games the referee's got to be strong today this is a physical team we were playing against or he would say you know I hope he's not going to go for he wouldn't name the player but

They've got several players that go to ground too easily.

He was always just trying to plant a seed in the referee's head, which, you know, and it worked by and large.

And I always remember, Mike, going back to your, you mentioned Arsenal.

When you ever played Arsenal, am I wrong or right?

You only had one intent when you played Arsenal.

You were going to be so aggressive to them.

You know, when Arsenal had their best team for a couple of years, you were just so aggressive to them.

You got their face.

And you wanted to discourage some of those players to play.

Right.

It's a great story, and it's a funny story, but it's not quite what you read or hear.