Graeme Souness

My youngest asked, where is my wine, not our wine?

Great, and what time of day is it?

Exactly.

That's for tonight, honestly.

A friend of mine, Brian Kennedy owns Taylor Sharks.

He took me to a few Scottish games.

And I just loved the atmosphere.

But I did struggle to get into it and I explained my thinking there where, you know, it's the game today, like soccer, it's full of fit young men who cover the ground and they can close down each other very quickly.

They do it collectively because, you know, like football again, everyone's, I think they've twigged on to the fact that, you know, stopping opposition is a big part of the game.

When I played at Liverpool, I mean, this is not, this is,

100% true.

They would say the team that does that best will be the team that wins the league.

I think they're forever trying to light the fire under us because that's all they used to say to us was make sure you work harder than the guy you're in against.

Do it collectively.

So what was Ronnie Moran or Joe Fagan or Bob Paisley describing then?

They're describing stopping opposition, closing them down collectively.

But that's a new thing in the game, Patrick.

100%.

100%.

You know, you've heard that my time at Liverpool, to go through the guys, the important people at the football club, they had a manager whose great talent was to look at players and work out who would, what the mix would be, you know, and could see good players.