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  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 24,564
    Just announced that he'll be swimming the English Channel soon to raise money for charity. He is 70 years old and has had serious heart surgery in the past
    Good on him. I have never liked Souness (I have never met him) as a player or pundit, but always regarded him as a very tough and determined man
    My mum was in the next room to Souness having the same op, early 90's I think. My dad, being a big football fan, started visiting Souness as much as my mum and they became quite good friends but it was my mum who Souness really took to. She had a birthday while in hospital which he found out about and until my mum died some 18 years later, Souness sent my mum a birthday card every year without fail.

    But, another part of this story was the fact Souness was having an affair at the time and was desperate to get his girlfriend in to the hospital. The press has got wind of this (or had just broke the story, can't remember which) and were camped outside the hospital trying to grab a photo of her visiting, so he asked my dad for a favour. His girlfriend would meet my dad, put a scarf on her head, don dark glasses then drive to the hospital in his car and walk in with him, completely unnoticed! My dad gave the journos dogs abuse every time he went so as soon as they saw it was my dad arriving, they were more than happy to steer clear of him! 






    Cracking Story Stockport and proves that Graham Souness was a hard man when playing at home and when he was playing away !
  • WHAddick
    WHAddick Posts: 1,403
    Thought he's a complete wanker since calling the Valley a Kharsi when he was in the away dugout (for Blackburn maybe). Can't fault him for this noble act and credit to him... . He's still a wanker though
  • Redhenry
    Redhenry Posts: 5,628
    Really, u been to Blackburn
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,852
    I have Operation Ewood, best not remembered.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 31,238
    Chizz said:
    Just announced that he'll be swimming the English Channel soon to raise money for charity. He is 70 years old and has had serious heart surgery in the past
    Good on him. I have never liked Souness (I have never met him) as a player or pundit, but always regarded him as a very tough and determined man
    Which direction?  Because if he's coming this way, he'll be at risk of a one-way flight to Rwanda, if Cruella gets her way. 
    His trainer is an Albanian based in Calais 
    He'll swim it in record time then.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,229
    remember being at St James park and singing "Graeme Souness is getting the sack" for the whole game. Still good for him on this occasion,
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 31,428
    McBobbin said:
    remember being at St James park and singing "Graeme Souness is getting the sack" for the whole game. Still good for him on this occasion,
    Is that when he was manager at Exeter?
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,229
    McBobbin said:
    remember being at St James park and singing "Graeme Souness is getting the sack" for the whole game. Still good for him on this occasion,
    Is that when he was manager at Exeter?
    Newcastle 
  • QatarNapsy
    QatarNapsy Posts: 998
    Played in a golf day with him pre-covid and he was a genuinely nice man. He was asked loads of questions about players, clubs etc from his time in Scotland, England & Italy and said hands down the best footballer he'd ever played with was Kenny Dalglish.

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  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,298
    The charity he is supporting - DEBRA - is seeking a cure or relief for one of the most awful conditions it's possible to imagine - a life of utter torture that gets steadily worse, and ends perhaps in your 30s.  My wife was employed as a classroom assistant supporting one such sufferer, to make sure that nobody touched him and caused pain and blisters.  He had to eat food like mashed-up Weetabix, as anything hard could cause his throat to blister up.  And each night he had to be wrapped in clingfilm to protect his skin.

    (Incidentally, he was a Man U fan, and had hoped to meet David Beckham at a match, but for some reason it didn't work out.  Instead, Posh made an unannounced, no-publicity-expected visit to his house with gifts/messages)


  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,950
    did his swim yesterday 18/6/2023 .. well done Mr Souness
    Graeme Souness: Football legend swims Channel for £1m fundraiser - BBC News

  • Fantastic effort.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 43,798
    What a warrior. On and off the pitch. At the age of 73 he puts us younger mortals to shame. 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 16,639
    he's riled all the gooners (which is very funny) with his views on Declan Rice.

    Souness was some player
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 2,831
    What a warrior. On and off the pitch. At the age of 73 he puts us younger mortals to shame. 
    Nice to see someone using their celebrity status to do something great for those less fortunate. 
    Bravo Sir.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 23,020
    Well done old fella.👏
  • What a warrior. On and off the pitch. At the age of 73 he puts us younger mortals to shame. 

  • he's riled all the gooners (which is very funny) with his views on Declan Rice.

    Souness was some player

  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,984
    Also he comes across as a top bloke on ITV's The Box.

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  • cfgs said:
    Also he comes across as a top bloke on ITV's The Box.

    A real hard man in the game, unlike Keane who was a dirty b******.
    Fantastic he has kept himself in such terrific condition to do this.