As far as Rangers hardmen come, Graeme Souness is certainly up there. Not that being physical was the fulcrum of the former player/manager’s game.
But he certainly did not shy away from a challenge and was naughty plenty of times in his career. He even got infamously sent off on his Rangers debut against Hibs in 1986.
However, he’s taken umbrage with another red card against the Edinburgh club. And Allan McGregor has been on the receiving end of it.
“There are sendings-off and sendings-off,” said Graeme Souness, speaking at The Kris Boyd Charity annual golf day for Mental Health at Turnberry and quoted by Football Scotland.
“There are sendings-off when the games are a bit meaty and aggressive and you go for challenges and you are maybe a bit late. And there is the stupid one yesterday, for that.
“Someone at 37 years old shouldn’t be getting sent off for that, lashing out unnecessarily.”
The former Gers gaffer would go on to say McGregor has let his teammates down, similarly to Alfredo Morelos in the last Old Firm.
Souness even said McGregor was “deserting the trenches”. It was a bit of a tongue lashing from the Scotland and Liverpool legend and no wonder. McGregor’s sending off was ludicrous.
And Graeme Souness isn’t the only ex-Rangers player who’s been outspoken about the incident [originally Sky Sports].
McGregor is now set to miss this week’s Old Firm with Celtic as well as the final game of the season against Kilmarnock.
