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Off the Ball Podcast

Graeme Souness and Pat Nevin

Off the Ball Podcast

BBC

Sports

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Hear all the best bits of Graeme Souness' Off the Ball appearance. His regret at not keeping Davie Cooper at Rangers, what it was like lining up next to the Brazilian team at WC 82, being caught up in the Middle East, trying to discipline Ally McCoist... and failing, he tells us Maurice Johnston wasn't the first Catholic he tried to sign for Rangers and much much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.6

Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about

0:09.4

You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC

0:13.9

and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry.

0:17.9

Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds,

0:26.3

a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear

0:31.2

the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:37.4

Greetings!

0:38.4

Welcome to another edition of the Off the Ball podcast with Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan.

0:43.7

For full terms and conditions of use, please go to the website, BBC.com.

0:47.8

Dot-Uk slash Off the Ball and follow the links to the podcast page.

0:51.8

I'm going to have a lot of speakers. follow the links to the podcast page.

1:10.8

We might as well start with a quiz. Who was that singing and we go to Graham soon as first? No idea. Exactly. Neither had that. Pat Devna'll get this right, the date, the song. Well, it's from the album Having their Las Vegas by the Cockto Twins, and that was a magnificent Liz Fraser from Grangemouth. Oh, excellent. Right, so Graham, very huge welcome to the show. I'm going to start you a wee bit left field because they part there on the Cocktoe Twinsby a question.

1:31.6

I ask a lot of the guests.

1:33.1

If you had to cancel your gig that you're going to this evening in Bonnie Scotland,

1:39.2

and I could get you a golden ticket for a front row seat at the hydro across the river for any musical artist dead or alive.

1:48.0

Who are you going to see?

1:49.4

Oh, that's a good one, isn't it?

1:53.9

The best concert I've ever seen was Bruce Springsteen at the field last year.

1:58.0

It was just off the charts.

2:00.3

Right, there we go.

2:01.2

So he features quite heavily. It is. You know, what people go with him? Unbelievable. And you know why he's called the boss? All these bandmates call him the boss. Do you know this? No. No. He shares whatever they earn when they're on the road. He shares it equally amongst the band. and himself, yeah.

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