Graeme Souness recreated his iconic flag celebration last night as he returned to former club Galatasaray as part of their celebrations for winning the Turkish Super Lig title.
Souness, who recently confirmed he was leaving his job as a pundit at Sky Sports, and was present for Gala's 3-0 victory over Fenerbahce on Sunday evening and was out on the pitch waving a flag before the game - much to the delight of the supporters.
27 years ago, the former Newcastle boss almost sparked a riot when he planted a Galatasaray flag in the middle of the pitch of their arch rivals Fenerbahce, with the 70-year-old receiving death threats as a result of his actions.
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Souness later explained that he decided to do in revenge to a Fenerbahce executive who had mocked him shortly after he had undergone surgery.
"One of their [Fenerbahce's] vice-presidents had said 'what are Galatasaray doing signing a cripple?', he was referring to the open-heart surgery I had," Souness told Sky Sports.
"So we play them nine months later in the cup final, a two-legged cup final - we won the first game in our stadium 1-0, lose the second game 1-0 after ninety minutes. It goes to extra time, Dean Saunders - a really good player and great striker of the ball, before he's actually made contact with it I am up off my seat knowing he's going to score.
"We win the trophy and after the game, all of our players ran down to one end where our supporters were and that great big flag was handed over. All the players took turns to wave it and then it's my turn, I give it a few waves and then turned to hand it to someone."
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