Graeme Souness was captain of Liverpool for three-and-a-half years and knows better than most the responsibility that comes with the honour of wearing the armband for the Reds.
Speaking on ‘Simon & Souness’ for talkSPORT, the 70-year-old said: “Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson goes there [Saudi Arabia] having been a supporter of the rainbow cause and…
Co-host Simon Jordan interjected with: “a bit of a hypocrite.”
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To which the Scot agreed: “right, yeah, that I find, that would have been difficult for me, if I’d gone down that road and then had the chance to go there – I don’t think I could have done that.”
It seems clear that the former midfielder thinks that the decision of the England international to move to the middle east does contradict his public relationship as an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community.
It’s a contentious issue and although the former Sky Sports pundit wasn’t the one who called the Al-Ettifaq skipper a ‘hypocrite’, he certainly agreed with the label being used.
You can watch Souness’ comments on Henderson (from 16:06) via talkSPORT on YouTube:
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I still don’t get this Jordan Henderson has came out and publicly stated that he still supports LGBTQ+, the fact that he works in a country that doesn’t support it doesn’t make him a hypocrite, it makes him someone who knows where he can earn enough money to set him up for life once he moves back to Sunderland in 2/3 years time.
If you were all for abortions and then you went and worked for pampers would that make you a hypocrite? No so why doesn’t everyone concentrate on their own sad lives and stop putting him down for making a career choice that will set him, his wife and kids up for the rest of their lives.
At first I thought risky move but then I thought NO if I knew I could work somewhere for 3 years and never have to work again in my life or my kids won’t have to work in their life time either then I would be gone in a shot and any person who is living in the nightmare we live in at the moment in the UK that says they wouldn’t do it is talking out of their tush lmfao 🤣
Exactly. They all are hypocrites, those saying this. It’s just because he didn’t the the opportunity Hendo got. This is football anyway. Playing in dung doesn’t score goals
Hmmm. Pampers? Abortions? Does not compute. Try again
Absolute drivel. If you want to be Mr.Popular of the moment and use rainbow laces.take the knee say how much you support the LGB crowd, fine. But if you then take the shilling it’s not surprising you will be vilified. Someone else was in with the in-crowd once. Took 30 pieces of silver. Didn’t turn out too well for him either.
Souness may have been a great player and captain but when it came to managing LFC, he was absolute shite. As a pundit and commentator, he is just as bad. Get a life oxygen thief!
LOL! Oxygen thief… Goodness!!! So, by implication, all clubs funded by Middle East and fossil fuel money are hypocrites. Don’t know what that has to do with football anyway….it’s all about survival I guess!!! Go Hendo! YNWA!!!
LOL! Oxygen thief… Goodness!!! So, by implication, all clubs funded by Middle East and fossil fuel money are hypocrites. Don’t know what that has to do with football anyway….it’s all about survival I guess!!! Go Hendo! YNWA!!!
The man who wrote a column for the S*n, hypocrite.
The last comment sums everything up about the man. Absolute legend at Liverpool and the takes money from The Sun for his life story. Legend gone.