Graeme Souness
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You know, the guys I played with and the guys before at Liverpool, I'm saying Liverpool, it was Liverpool in the 70s and 80s was the dominant team.
When the game finished for them, they had to go and find a job.
And they were serial winners.
You know, they...
I talk about great players, and I played with lots of great players at that time, and there's one who's never deemed to be a great player in people's eyes, Phil Neill.
Do you have any idea what Phil Neill won in his career?
Three, four European Cups?
Four European Cups.
Won losers, and that was at Heysel.
I'd say seven or eight First Division championships of Premier League, the equivalent of.
And, I don't know, a UEFA Cup, I'm sure he must have won, didn't he win an FA Cup and four or five League Cups?
So, what would you have to do?
What would you have to win to be deemed a great, if that's not a great tool there?
And there's others like that.
Was he a household name, would you say?
No, no, I'll come back to it.
That's what I said earlier, Patrick.
In those days, there was only about half a dozen people we deemed household names.
Today, there's 106, maybe more, because of television and the profile that football has today.
It's a great time to be a football player.