Graham Souness
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Podcast Appearances
I think we only ever lost once in the FA Cup, and that was to the late Andy King goal, who won it for them.
Ranger Stelting, I think it was to me.
I played in a couple of those.
Incredibly, I got sent off in one.
I'm shocked, Graham.
But I did enjoy those games, because you know what it means to the supporters.
What was it?
Erm... Well, when I went there, it was... What did you say then, Graham?
I might have mixed it.
When I went there, erm...
One of their vice presidents had asked in the papers, what are Galatasaray doing by slamming a cripple?
And it meant he was referring to me 18 months before I'd had open heart surgery.
So we win the cup in their stadium, the big flags handed over from our supporters, all the players took a turn to wave it, handed it to me, I went down to another player, they've all run back up to the halfway line to get the cup.
I'm now running back up towards the halfway line, looking into emptying stands, and unbelievably, in the director's box, I could see this chap's face, and I thought, I'll show you who's a cripple.
And it wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done, because when I planted it and turned round, that stopped too early, because I quickly realised there was a number of supporters trying to get onto the pitch.
So I managed to get out of there relatively scot-free.
Relatively.
No, no.
Why not?
I enjoy this.