Makes me really fucking annoyed when we start acting like the Scum. I know a mate of Chris Bascombe, the football writer for the Echo who wrote a less than flattering article about Graeme Souness in the run up to the Blackburn game. In it, he accused him of being bitter toward Liverpool because of his dismissal as our manager. After the post-match press conference, Souness asked to see him privately and complained to him that this was an unfair representation of him and that he has no problem whatsoever with Liverpool, a club he still "loves greatly", in his own words. He went on to reveal that his angry disposition toward Liverpool was down to the fact that representatives of the club had been ringing Damien Duff "every day", telling him not to sign his new contract. Harumph ... we used to be above this stuff.
I wouldn't doubt it at all.... football is a buisness and sometimes it's those who go for the throat that are the ones who are standing last.
So he loves the club greatly but will complain to a columnist that they made an illegal approach? Grahame Souness: Misunderstood Man of Contradictions Dave
If he's correct, then he has every right to be upset, whether he loves the club or not. I'm with Matt on this one.
I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not saying he doesn't have a right to be upset, and that LFC shouldn't have done it. I just meant that it seemed a bit weird for him to speak of his love for the club and then give a columnist something juicy like that. Dave
Well, bear in mind that I only know this because of my mate. This will not appear in any newspaper article Chris Bascombe ever writes. Souness was having an "off the record" with him, because he wanted to set him straight on allegations that he had a problem with the club.
a real nice 'mate' you are, bringing out what your friend and souness said in confidence to a web site. good little tidbit though.
oh come on ... it's all over the LFC sites too by now. My mate was obviously not vastly bothered about what went where - or he'd have known not to tell me! I do have you lot to think about you know. I dunno, you toil all day and what thanks do you get? Nuffink! Ungrateful little oiks, the lorrayers.