Between Evra and his Moyes' daughter comments and Graemes 1981 take on Latino attitudes to diving, Sky will be yearning for big Ron Atkinson before long.
Graeme Sourness | Retires from “punditry”
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I guess for me it's because he's speaking about a footballing trait within a certain culture of players, he's not talking about the Latin people beyond sports. Back in the 90's, Italians were the big culprits around Europe when it came to diving, but is it racist to bring up that Italians were divers? I think it was more ignorant, than racist, because he's trying to act as if British people don't dive either. They dive less in general than in South America for example, there is more shame in British culture associated with diving to get somebody sent off than there is in some other places, so I don't think he's wrong in that. But when you start asking whether you want that in your British league (which has gotten as popular as it has in part through that injection of South American players), it goes a bit over the line. If you find it racist, I'm fine with it, I'm just not sure I agree.
The problem with Souness is that he's not basing it on anything other than a gut feeling which is what he always does. In his head he feels like the foruners dive more and English players don't with no real evidence to back it up. Just stereotypes. Lamela was just confirmation bias.
Please tell me someone has clipped up Carragher's response to Souness there 
Haha Carragher was brilliant there. Souness has a nerve even moaning about bad tacklesPlease tell me someone has clipped up Carragher's response to Souness there
Souness is fuming
I did not see it. Please get a clip.
This.
Surely Souness isn’t moaning about bad tackles?
Oh he was, refs are there to protect players he had the audacity to claim
Carragher put Souness bang in his place, brilliant stuff.
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Thanks.
Carragher is hardly one to talk either. Nani, for instance.
He made reference to that himself in fairness
Did it seem as if Carragher was saying Pickford was not out to hurt Van Dijk?
I think so, said it was reckless and not malicious.
Carragher has aged a lot during Covid. Looks rough as twenty.
Aside, but I thought your voice was meant to get deeper as you got older.
Aside, but I thought your voice was meant to get deeper as you got older.
Carragher has admitted he was out of order in that tackle. He admitted those t shirts for Suarez were a terrible idea. He's just picked up on a Liverpool hero for his hypocrisy.
He's actually a pretty reasoned pundit.
He reminds me a bit of G Nev that rivals start liking them more, but their own fan base get infuriated with them!
Who can forget his first interview in the 90s where everyone came away thinking, what the hell was that, was it english, was it human!?
He's eased his accent down a little
Or he remembered he is an Everton fan again
Which is about right. It was a dangerous, boneheaded challenge, but I wouldn't call it malicious.
Is that taken out of context?
I think Haaland could win a ballon d'or in the future but I can't see him becoming Messi Super Saiyan God.
Considering he believes Messi is the best of all time, that’s high praise.
he’s the closest player out there to get anywhere near the sort of goals Messi has scored, so I suppose it’s how you judge a player? Clearly nowhere near as talented.
It's also an unrealistic standard to hold a player to as I don't think many human beings have ever been born with Messi's natural talent. I know it's overused, but Messi really is a generational player like Pele and Maradona.
Neymar has bags of talent but has spent his career in the shadows of Messi and Ronaldo, perhaps players like Mbappe and Haaland will have more chance to shine.
Don’t think so. He also claims that Haaland is way ahead of Mbappe which is more bollox
I doubt he watched him much to reach this opinion.
Souness needs to lay off the sauce. Haaland is a great talent and will be a memorable player, but Messi is off the charts.
Clueless dinosaur.
fecking idiot.
What did he say the grave dodger
What an absolute shit talking pos
I prefer it when he took random shots at Pogba. Think he was actually being himself today
Embarrassing fool
This guy really is clueless to the whole situation.