Graeme Souness

And I look at these rugby players and I think, because they're all so athletic today,

I know people will be screaming at me when they're listening to this.

I see two groups of extremely fit young men, walk and run like the wind, powerful, powerful men, and they basically cancel each other out until someone gets semi-dazed in a challenge and there's an opening somewhere.

Because they can all cover the ground, they're making the game, in my opinion, a war of attrition.

It's like,

Where's the running football, the running rugby, the entertaining stuff you can remember from the past?

And I think there's an argument to make football, instead of 10 out-of-field players, maybe nine out-of-field players.

So I think we're in the same place, yeah.

I mean, we've got to remember, you know, the connoisseurs and people of my generation,

I've been to this again.

It's not entertainment.

I mean, the Premier League has never been more interesting to people throughout the world than it is today.

It's watched everywhere.

And rightly so, because it's such an exciting sport to watch.

But it is entertainment.

And I think in our game now, when you look at the way our players are, they can cancel each other out, because they can all run like the wind.

They're all terrific athletes.

And I think when you see a player get sent off, all of a sudden there's openings.

We'll get a lot of time.

Teams retreat and they have two banks of four in there.