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Graeme Souness’ Galatasaray flag incident: Manager’s infamous insult to Fenerbahce fans

How do you write yourself into the history of a football club? The Scottish coach became a legend in Galatasaray for his defiant flag plant

To a younger audience nowadays, Graeme Souness might well be known as little more than the pundit who can't help but take swipes at Paul Pogba.

However, the former Scotland midfielder is fondly remembered as the tough-tackling engine room of Liverpool's dominant side of the late 1970s into the early 1980s and is considered a legend at Rangers, where he won three league titles as manager, ending a nine-year drought in 1987.