Why Graeme Souness is the unacceptable face of Scottish football

Since leaving Edinburgh at the age of 15 Graeme Souness has spent just five years in Scotland.

Two years after becoming player-manager of Rangers he introduced his fried Dave Murray to the club owners. Murray spent £6m buying the club in 1988, in 2011 he accepted a pound from Craig Whyte with the club put into liquidation 13 months after Murray bailed out.

During his five years at Ibrox it is difficult to remember a single positive contribution to Scottish football from Souness.

Murray’s financial doping wiped out the progress that Dundee United and Aberdeen had made with United European Cup semi-finalists in 1984, the year after the Dons had beaten Real Madrid and Bayern Munich to lift the Cup Winners Cup.

These days in the comfort of his Sky Sports and TalkSPORT studios Souness styles himself as some sort of guru of Scottish football.

Surrounded by Jim White and Simon Jordan he isn’t going to be challenged often although the former Crystal Palace chairman reminded Souness of some tax issues that killed the club he once played for.

Today’s outburst against Celtic certainly provoked a reaction. In the olden days much of Souness’ past indiscretions could be almost forgotten about but as he preaches on his high horse a few folk were happy to remind him of the anti-catholic sing-along he encouraged at Tannadice in front of the BBC cameras while Rangers Tax Case has all the details about transfer dealings between Newcastle and Blackburn when Souness was manager and how he was rewarded by his mate Murray.

Oh, and a police raid on Ibrox looking for evidence relating to the Jean-Alain Boomsong transfer proved very informative to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.