Football - Scottish Premier League - 29/4/89 Rangers' manager Graeme Souness gives an interview Mandatory Credit: Action Images
Graeme Souness has launched an attack on the Woke generation of footballers.
It seems that the 71-year-old was happier in an environment where you could throw televisions around the dressing room while players sang their religious hatred in front of the cameras.
If a player disagreed with Souness they would quickly find themselves booted out the club as Jam Bartram and Graeme Roberts will testify.
Souness has spent the last few years lobbying for an Ambassador role at Ibrox but the board refused to give in to his pay demands.
Eighteen months ago he joined James Bisgrove and John Bennett in the recruitment of Micky Beale’s successor.
While the former Liverpool boss opted for Frank Lampard the others were wooed by Phil Clement with Souey eventually falling in line.
Discussing the issues at Manchester United in the Daily Mail, Souness decided to unburden his anger and contempt over the money and lifestyle that current footballers enjoy while he chases media pay days:
It was no surprise to hear Erik ten Hag, the former Manchester United manager, bemoan that the modern player can no longer take criticism.
He’s right. A combination of factors is to blame. The wokeism that exists in everyday life and permeates through society. Money. Media exposure. And the power of their asset value to a football club. All of those elements make it extremely difficult to manage the modern footballer.
If I even pulled a face at something a coach said to me in my time, even as a senior player and captain at Liverpool, I’d be met with a torrent of what today’s player would call abuse. It would be along the lines of ‘Who do you think you are?’ and ‘What have you ever achieved to warrant an opinion?’
Today, the relentless media coverage, means the man on the street puts these players on a pedestal before they have ever made a proper impact on the game. They are little more than the kids from next door who have won the lottery.
Souness has been happy to take media silver for almost 20 years sharing his opinions on the wokeism of the current generation of players.
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Back to Mark Wilson and his take on the Igamane incident from the other night,a thought it was Jockey Wison giving his opinion on it.
Mark Wilson is a soup taker,scared to give his honest opinion on it as it would cost him the fee of the nickel&dimes he picks up for being an ARSEHOLE.
ibrox missed a trick there:
a ‘Dream Team’ of Souey and Bazza would have had the bears auto-renewing their ST’s – and at any price?
This is Souness trying desperately to stay relevant ! No decent person is interested in what he’s all about ,or what he has to say … especially in england land . So he’s pandering to those in Ibroxland who still remember him as a staunch , loyal ,Celtic hating brute !
Hate the sight and sound of Sourness but I find myself wholeheartedly agreeing with him on this.