Souness settles a few old scores

Graeme Souness and his natural perm in action for Liverpool in 1981REX

Sport/Memoir

Football: My Life, My Passion

By Graeme Souness

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It was once said of Argentina’s 1978 World Cup-winning captain Daniel Passarella that he was the dirtiest great player in the world. But Graeme Souness gave El Caudillo a run for his dinero.

In Liverpool’s European Cup semi-final against Dinamo Bucharest in 1984, Souness viciously broke the jaw of a Romanian who’d had the cheek to deceive him with a piece of ...