A peripheral issue I know, but it's pretty depressing to think how Souey, supposedly a no-nonsense disciplinarian of a manager who 'brought in modern fitness and nutrition ideas from Italy,' presided over a team in which Barnes was practically subsisting on a diet of Big Macs, Nicol was addicted to crisps, Dicks was bingeing on chips, Ruddock was eating sarnies on the exercise wheel and then pouring a bottle of water over his head to look like he'd been sweating heavily while working out, and Stewart was tooting coke on a regular basis:
“I could get it at any place, any time I wanted it. I don’t know how I managed to perform on the pitch. At times that is why I was not chosen. Liverpool manager Graeme Souness asked me if I was taking drugs. I just denied it. Someone had told him that it was the case, and he questioned me about it.
“Marijuana stays a lot longer in the system, in the hair for example. But with cocaine, it goes very quickly and I would take that on a regular basis. I was tested for drugs, but it was random and I took the risk. I got away with it.”
“I could get it at any place, any time I wanted it. I don’t know how I managed to perform on the pitch. At times that is why I was not chosen. Liverpool manager Graeme Souness asked me if I was taking drugs. I just denied it. Someone had told him that it was the case, and he questioned me about it.
“Marijuana stays a lot longer in the system, in the hair for example. But with cocaine, it goes very quickly and I would take that on a regular basis. I was tested for drugs, but it was random and I took the risk. I got away with it.”