What A Brass Neck Souness Has In Clumsily Accusing Sutton Of Pro-Celtic Bias.

It’s always great when an idiot opens his gob and embarrasses himself.

I am reminded, at times, of a wonderful story about Mark Twain. He was at a dinner where an eminent professor was holding court and sought to lecture the world class wordsmith on his own business. “Do you realise,” he said, “that the word ‘sugar’ is the only word in the English language that begins with su but which you pronounce as shu?”

“Are you sure?” Twain asked without pause.

Today it was the turn of Graeme Souness to be hoist on his own petard, not that the media has bothered to do that. As usual, that’s left to the likes of us to do.

Today he was on that embarrassingly bad radio show south of the border when he launched a completely unhinged attack on Chris Sutton, for no reason at all. He accused Sutton of bias in casting doubt on the Ibrox club’s penalty kick … a decision which I think is atrocious and wholly unjustified, and a result of officials being conned by an obvious cheat.

Not only did Souness make that accusation, he then suggested that Sutton was trying to pressure the VAR officials. He persisted in this groundless, idiotic attack even after he was told that no such thing was possible and that VAR officials can’t hear anything the broadcasters say, although the broadcasters have a full account of what they are saying.

That’s a man proving himself to be a clown right there. That he is taken seriously as a pundit when he talks rot like this is telling. His own comments on Celtic over the last couple of years have reeked of bias and even tilted into raging insanity.

It’s only two years since he called our club “the unacceptable face of Scottish football” in a mouth-foaming tirade after the death of the Queen. How anyone can take seriously his claims that someone else is biased after having to endure that lunatic rant is beyond me, but of course the hacks up here could not wait to get his words into print today.

Souness is a disgraced figure in most pleasant football circles, after his comments about women players and officials. He sounds, at times, like the worst kind of bigot. His comments on Celtic were absolutely unacceptable. Still, he is given credence he does not deserve and that his views, which are most often the stuff of a bygone era, do not justify.

But he hates Celtic. That’s why he still gets in the papers. For him to accuse anyone of bias is ridiculous. His comments today were unintentionally hilarious.

I started with Mark Twain, so let me finish him with; “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” That’s all Souness did today in attacking Sutton on the basis of his “bias.” What a clown.