Graeme Sourness | Retires from “punditry”

Tincanalley

Turns player names into a crappy conversation
Joined
Apr 12, 2011
Messages
10,087
Location
Ireland
Have to say I thought Souness and David Jones came across yesterday as bitter and clueless. I was happy to see the other 3 pundits put them right and continue with their support of the protest.
In fairness, Jones has a different job. It’s fitting that he doesn’t appear to endorse criminal behaviour, for instance. To be fair, Sky have allowed Carra, GNev and Keano a fair bit of latitude. I doubt you would get that in America. Also it is important to emphasise the voices of peaceful protest; something the BBC does not seem to be doing, for instance
 

Tomuś

Nani is crap, I tell you!
Joined
Oct 17, 2011
Messages
6,177
Location
Świdnik
He's their Giggs. Legend of a player but absolute prick of a man, and completely out of touch with what the club is supposed to be about. At least we can see it about our guy.
Nah, he can be frustrating at times with his opinions but to put him in one sentence with Giggs is ridiculuous.
 

Lee565

Full Member
Joined
Mar 6, 2019
Messages
4,978
Another one of sky sports out of touch dinosaurs that needs to be booted to curb
 

DoomSlayer

New Member
Joined
Jun 20, 2019
Messages
4,875
Location
Bulgaria
It's pathetic how biased he is. Doesn't even try to keep himself informed, just makes stuff up on the spot and acts like some sort of genius analyst.
 
Joined
Jun 26, 2014
Messages
21,606
Location
Behind the right goal post as "Whiteside shoots!"

Carragher being an absolute hero right now.

Souness and Jenas can feck off.
How on earth Jenas gets football gigs, let alone other TV gigs, is amazing.

Talks absolute shite when presenting and I'd rather listen to McManaman commentate over him.

I'm trying to think of one good reason why the BBC would employ him.....
 

Haddock

Full Member
Joined
May 25, 2013
Messages
729
Nevin said that? I'd have expected better.
I remember Bob Wilson ranting about how we were the same as Chelsea but he was a confused old man upset about Arsenal being marginalised.
I don't. It becomes obvious with each passing week that ex-players know very little about anything beyond what happens on the green. Now I don't expect Nevin or Shearer to say anything insightful about leveraged buyouts and how a club should be governed but I do expect Sky and BBC to bring on someone who does. BBC will usually bring on someone knowledgeable and relegate them to dumbing down issues. They assume the audience are as thick as the show's producers.
 

stevoc

Full Member
Joined
Jun 11, 2011
Messages
19,836
I don't. It becomes obvious with each passing week that ex-players know very little about anything beyond what happens on the green. Now I don't expect Nevin or Shearer to say anything insightful about leveraged buyouts and how a club should be governed but I do expect Sky and BBC to bring on someone who does. BBC will usually bring on someone knowledgeable and relegate them to dumbing down issues. They assume the audience are as thick as the show's producers.
I think you're giving some of them too much credit there. A few don't have a clue about what happens on the pitch either.
 

Jericho

New Member
Newbie
Joined
May 14, 2012
Messages
1,109
The stupidity of him to say that fans are protesting now because of results and performances. Now would be the worst time to do that. We're currently on an upward trajectory and playing some of our best football in years. We were probably favorites going into that game with Liverpool.
 

romufc

Full Member
Joined
Apr 30, 2019
Messages
12,555
This just shows how clueless some of these so called pundits are. Surely if you are covering football, you need to know what's going on.

How can these people be employed with 0 knowledge and then speak about it to millions on tv making the fans look like the bad ones here.
 

devilish

Juventus fan who used to support United
Joined
Sep 5, 2002
Messages
61,525
This just shows how clueless some of these so called pundits are. Surely if you are covering football, you need to know what's going on.

How can these people be employed with 0 knowledge and then speak about it to millions on tv making the fans look like the bad ones here.
Souness seem more focused in making himself look as tough if not tougher then Keano is
 

diarm

Full Member
Joined
Jul 13, 2014
Messages
16,681
Souness seem more focused in making himself look as tough if not tougher then Keano is
He missed a trick yesterday so. Squealing like a teenage girl about how he could've died from a half full beer can than fell 40ft away from him.
 

devilish

Juventus fan who used to support United
Joined
Sep 5, 2002
Messages
61,525
He missed a trick yesterday so. Squealing like a teenage girl about how he could've died from a half full beer can than fell 40ft away from him.
Someone should have asked him whether he thinks that he needs a police escort 24/7 after such clear assassination attempt
 

Schneiderman

Full Member
Joined
Jul 6, 2015
Messages
2,301
Couldn't get any worse for Man United apparently. Because finishing second and winning the Europa is such a bad season. What a complete moron, going on about the Glazers again now.
 

DamoK

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Nov 10, 2018
Messages
190
Location
Ireland
I've to mute the tv so much tonight when Souness is talking and then unmute to listen to Keane
 

Zoo

Full Member
Joined
Jul 21, 2010
Messages
29,716
It’s really poor. Carragher called it lazy punditry, lack of standards. Yet here he is again allowed to carry on chatting shit
 

Acole9

Outstanding
Joined
Feb 17, 2013
Messages
12,503
He's getting a bit forgetful. Redknapp made a point about something separate earlier and he repeated it and wasn't keeping up with the conversation.
 

Sandikan

aka sex on the beach
Joined
Mar 14, 2011
Messages
52,710
Couldn't get any worse for Man United apparently. Because finishing second and winning the Europa is such a bad season. What a complete moron, going on about the Glazers again now.
Very strange from him, ignoring that we've lost these 2 home games and are still massive favourites for 2nd and have a cup final coming up!