A man who educated himself on LGBTQ+ rights seems to have a blind spot on the problematic language he uses about the Juventus midfielder
, Souness denied that he had been unfair to Pogba, acknowledging that he is “extremely talented” but that he is more interested in showing “the world how cute and clever” he is rather than dominating opponents. He said he was the “kind of individual wrecks your club” before applying the coup de grace of saying he was “a lazy twat”.
Now, Pogba and Manchester United were not a roaring success, either first time around or second. That can be agreed, although it is possible to argue all night about who is to blame for the clown show at Old Trafford.
It is fair to treat him as other footballers are treated but Souness’ view of him runs dangerously close to a character assassination, which leaves you asking how well he or any of us really know Pogba. Is he a waster? Is he misunderstood? How many people have got into his head? And when it comes to it, is the accusation of laziness itself a lazy trope? There is a history of black footballers being stereotyped in that way, as Ron Atkinson, the former Manchester United manager turned television pundit, infamously did with Marcel Desailly in 2004. Atkinson called Desailly, one of the most successful footballers of recent years, “thick” and “lazy” before using a racially offensive epithet.
It is not as if Souness is not alive to sensitivities around language and race. In June 2020, he chastised himself publicly for failing to challenge racist remarks during his playing career, saying he was “angry with himself now”, but Sky apologised in that same year after he described an overreaction by
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