Graeme Souness
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In my time,
and before my time, there was only half a dozen household names.
Now there's 106 household names.
And that's the profile of the Premier League.
That's what we've done for these players.
That's what television has done.
No, there's players today who are ordinary Joes, but are deemed stars.
Because of what?
Not because they're such good football players, it's because of the profile that television and every other media form has given them.
I have another story, a quick one.
1984.
We won the European Cup, the League and the League Cup.
Kenny and I would imagine in 84, would have been maybe the best two paid players in the country.
I don't know what he was getting.
I would imagine it was similar money to what I was getting.
I got 125 grand that year in 1984.
Now that was, at the time the average man's wage was maybe, I think it was 10,000 pounds a year.
So I was getting 12 times the average man's wage.
You know what?
there's any amount of names I could pick.