I remember an interview with Souness talking about how mad it seemed when he got to Sampdoria and they told you how to live, rather than simply play football. This is in the context of him explaining how fucking shit he was at managing Liverpool, and describing why he had felt he had to smash up the boot room and replace the cultural norms, and why it had to get worse before it got better. It didn't get better but whatever.
He said that you got told what to eat, which for him usually had been fish and chips and ten pints, and was now a light pasta dish with one, maximum, glass of wine. He said you got told when you were expected to be in bed, which noone had ever broached at Liverpool (Jan molby getting trashed at three in the morning then fucking the mancs at three in the afternoon what's not to love etc) But yeah he also said the boss there forbade them from fucking the night before a match.
This interview would have been a few months after he got sacked, which puts me at around 21, which means I was DJing in warehouses off my tits all the time, but I do remember it because I always wondered how that boss of Sampdoria would have found out about the shag had you had one, and how having a shag would make you a worse player some hours later.
Still don't know. Any ideas?
