Souness: 'In my generation if you had a bad game you got criticised in the press'

Graeme Souness talks in much the same way he tackled. There is no room for niceties as he speaks. Answers are delivered with emphasis and conviction, sometimes scything through the bones of a question before it can find its feet.

Diagnosed with heart disease almost thirty years ago, he underwent a triple bypass operation and suffered a heart attack in 2015 and yet he is the picture of health as he moves through his 67th year.