GIVING his verdict after watching the bad-tempered 1-1 Premier League match between Chelsea and Spurs on Sunday, Graeme Souness stated on Sky Sports activities: ‘It’s a person’s recreation abruptly once more.’
‘Souness, tough-tackling star of Wise United, wins the ball off the torpid Woke Wanderers and begins powering downfield …’
The 69-year-old former Liverpool participant turned pundit added: ‘I feel we’ve received our soccer again, as I might take pleasure in soccer – males at it, blow-for-blow, and the referee letting them get on with it.’
‘Oh, what a improbable transfer! Souness dummies effortlessly to see off a Woke defender …’
Ex-England girls’s worldwide Karen Carney, now additionally a pundit, was sitting alongside Souness within the studio. So Sky presenter Dave Jones rapidly added: ‘It’s additionally a girl’s recreation as properly.’
‘One other Woke participant tries to sort out Souness, however he skips spherical him with imperious ease …’
Later, in fact, got here the compulsory Twitter storm. Chelsea ahead Beth England, a part of the England girls’s workforce which received the Euro match, wrote: ‘What a disgraceful factor to say after the summer season this nation has simply seen.’
One other former England participant, Eni Aluko, stated: ‘Graeme Souness speaking about “it’s a person’s recreation once more” sat subsequent to an England centurion Karen Carney, two weeks after @Lionesses finish a 56-year-wait and win European Championships. Come on. It’s not okay.’
However talking to TalkSPORT on Monday, the Scot stated he regretted ‘not a phrase’ of what he had stated in Sunday’s broadcast.
‘Souness ignores the jeers of the Woke supporters and brushes apart extra opponents as he jinks and weaves down the wing …’
‘Let me clarify,’ he added. ‘I’ve been advocating for years that the referees have such a significant half to play within the success of the Premier League. We’ve received to watch out what we are saying at present and I’ve not been excellent at that, however we have been changing into like different leagues.
‘The refs have been blowing the whistle on a regular basis, the sport didn’t circulation and it simply wasn’t an excellent watch. Our recreation has at all times been distinctive, at all times been extra meaty, extra in our face, extra intense and we’ve received away from that.
‘Yesterday in my feedback I stated we’ve received our recreation again. That’s the sort of soccer I keep in mind taking part in. Our league can be higher for it – we’re again.’
That is sensible stuff! Souness is making the most effective solo runs we’ve ever seen for Wise United. Certainly nothing goes to cease him now – he’s going all the best way to a wonderful purpose …’
However Souness then went and spoiled all of it. Afterward Monday, in a press release launched via Sky, he stated: ‘To make clear my feedback from yesterday, I used to be referring to the 2 Premier League matches I watched reside on Sunday afternoon, somewhat than the game of soccer. Soccer is a recreation for everybody to take pleasure in.’
Ah … a ‘clarification’. It sounds prefer it was made via gritted tooth. What may have prompted that, Graeme? Certainly not strain from Sky, frightened of offending the footie feminists who are actually jarringly shoehorned into each broadcast of males’s soccer? Properly, your wimpish ‘clarification’ left me sick as a parrot.
‘Unbelievable! Souness inexplicably does a U-turn and journeys over his bootlaces! He’s misplaced the ball, tumbled head over heels, and landed on his bottom in a patch of mud. The Woke followers are ecstatic, the Wise supporters are surprised. Oh, Souey lad, they shout – you’ve nobbled your self!’
