The panel beater

GRAEME SOUNESS has proved as combative in the tv studio as he was in Liverpool’s midfield of the late seventies. Liam Mackey talked Dunphy, Giles, Chelsea and Man U with the man trying to buy Wolves.

Graeme Souness is chuckling as recalls the fallout from his debut as an analyst on RTÉ’s “The Premiership”.

“We went to a restaurant after the programme finished, and I managed to escape before Johnny and Eamon started singing because I was up early the following morning. And they abused me for leaving early, there and then. And then there was an abusive message from Eamon on my phone on Sunday morning for leaving early as well.”