Graeme Souness preferred grilled lobster and Sancerre to the cod and chips Bob Paisley would instruct John, Liverpool’s coach driver, to stop off for on the way home from away games.
He drove a white BMW 2000 at a time when Phil Thompson’s Saab had previously been the high point of motoring sophistication at the club, in the mid-1980s.
This lifestyle seemed about as far removed as you could get from the Spartan work ethic preached by the legendary Anfield Boot Room. Yet a story Souness tells of early mornings in an old backstreet garage, around the corner from the club’s training ground, reveals much about how modest he considered his place in that Liverpool firmament to be.