Graeme Souness
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But I think in the 90 minutes, a lot of it is what I see.
Well, fortunately, when I was up there, I was there five years and we were bossing it for four years.
And Celtic won it the one year with Billy McNeill in charge.
You know, I got criticised, greatly criticised, for saying, well, I don't care if we lose to Celtic up as long as we win the league.
That did not go down well.
And did you view change on that?
Oh, yeah.
After the first ten minutes of the very first Old Firm game.
But my thinking was, as long as we end up winning the league, as long as we get our hands on the cup at the end of it, I don't mind taking a few blows along the way.
But then you do get it.
These games are so much.
And it generally leads to you winning the league if you win these.
and it's not just the points that you get on the day for winning it.
What I found was you could be playing the best football,
But you're second in the league because you've drawn a daft game.
You might have had someone sent off.
A lot of the time it was me getting sent off.
For whatever reason, you didn't win that game, so you're going into an old firm game and you're second.
And all the pressure's on you, although you might have been playing the best football out of the two teams.
It's all about winning these games, staying top, because if you're top, the pressure is off you.