The REAL story behind Ali Dia playing for Southampton! | Matt Le Tissier on The Football Show

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

They laugh at him, but he probably has a better story to dine out on than any of them... "next thing you know, I'm coming on for le tissier!"

[@TheRockyLeonFan]

I wouldn't mind the whole world laughing at me for 5 minutes playing the Premier League :)

[@liquidgeorge]

But it also makes you a con man who lacks honesty.

[@jamesvickers5998]

You're right. Ali Dia can always say he played in a Premier League match. I can't.

[@adrianfernand33s]

@@liquidgeorge imagine a prem team getting done by a con artist lol

[@jamesvickers5998]

@S Baughan ??

[@InnocentRain562]

He needs a legend card on Fifa

[@alexmorris5200]

mlt does ye

[@mrcactuar7190]

Icon moments

[@domchilton2918]

@@alexmorris5200 no Ali dia

[@hamster4810]

99 icon moments

[@freefallmatter]

You would dumb to think if EA actually cares about thier fans and if they even give a F about adding a bit of humor and sarcasm in their game lol

[@doesnotexist305]

“He was everywhere the ball had just been” 😂😂😂

[@alanfox691]

So, as good as Pogba, then basically, lol.

[@ConnorOB2801]

@@alanfox691At least he stayed at a high level, for a while.

[@TokyoJoe703]

Souness has had time to tweak the story to how he wants it over the years

[@georgiecasey]

exactly. if he says he knew he was bad but had to bring him on cos there was nobody else, then who did he sub on when he took ali dia off after 20 minutes?

[@beanies2007]

​@@georgiecasey it was a defender as he was THAT bad

[@benjammin9471]

​@@georgiecasey a centre back, the internet has the info you need

[@pacyguy7144]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RebelRebelious]

@@georgiecasey Souness might have got away with that lie pre Internet. Google reveals Australian international Robbie Slater was on the bench for Southampton that day. Would have been near enough a like for like replacement for Le Tissier. Sourness tells anyone who'll listen to him he wasn't conned. Nobody believes him.

[@Wally-H]

Matt Le Tissier clearly says on another video interview "I'm not sure how a man of Graham's experience fell for that." He knows the truth as we all do. Graham was conned, and he is trying to hide his embarrassment with a concocted story. The idea that he would bring Dia on instead of anyone else on the bench, if he knew how terrible he was, is ridiculous.

[@danielk348]

This will never get old this story is right up there with the very best 😂😂😂😂💪🏾👌🏾 all I know is if Ali Dia scored who knows what would have happened

[@MusicPlaylistsChannel]

He almost did! 😀

[@pahakuutti]

It get's proper embarrassing, is what what happens. They'd probably have given him a season long contract.

[@samashfield64]

All you know is if he’d scored who knows what would’ve happened… wtf 😂

[@te4500]

This is the reason I don’t take souness serious

[@Hod101]

Borris Walnut yeah forget the 5 league titles and 3 European cups they don’t mean anything do they😂👍🏼

[@te4500]

@@Hod101 what's that got to do with anything , he's still a fool

[@zidanerealist2292]

@@Hod101 your an idiot

[@perfectlemming8394]

@@zidanerealist2292 spell you're correct before calling someone an idiot.

[@te4500]

Ahmad Hosny No punk

[@CM-ue6bi]

In the clip Graeme says there was 2 up front, Le Tissier went off and he had a bench full of Wingbacks and Centerbacks. Surely if he thought the boy was that bad he'd just throw an extra centerback on and go 5-4-1?

[@4exgold]

yeah that struck me too as being odd. Souness couldve moved Berkovitz into Le Tissiers position and subbed on Robbie Slater (a good player) into midfield.

[@brhodes0]

Unfortunately that's too complex for Sourness's 3 braincells to compute.

[@andreasdarsaklis5495]

This could have never happen today. Teams scouting networks are so complex and so well organized nowadays that they could quickly realise the guy is faking a football career. In that way, we can say that Ali Dia was lucky that we got that "opportunity" at the right era.

[@drewwalton5973]

Plus the internet, hard to blah you played for PSG when someone can prove it’s BS in seconds

[@andreasdarsaklis5495]

@@drewwalton5973 People can just look him up at Transfermarkt and it's over in 3 minutes

[@Rodders0223]

Me thinks Souness is lying here. He got mugged right off.

[@PauloTheGeek]

Too right he's never lived it down and still fuming about it now.

[@combatsignaller]

Yep he was pug washed 😂

[@JK-ff1ft]

I think he is telling the truth

[@colmoreilly1323]

Definitely, souness very embarrassed about all this!

[@tammurray8576]

Yeah, he never explained how the guy got the trial in the first place or why he included him if he was that bad

[@jackshadow3518]

There is a whole chapter about this story in Le Tissier's book.

[@castra58]

Souness doesn't mention it in his biography though. Strange that...

[@jackshadow3518]

@@EM.Bricklaying I haven't read Souness's book but Souness was Southampton's manager at that time and gave Ali Dia his PL debut.

[@HullzOSRS]

How the hell do you end up in a position where you literally have no other strikers at all in the entire infrastructure of the club and end up playing literally a guy off the streets? Souness is clearly embarrassed by that story.

[@johnsmith6471]

Agreed. Southampton FC had/has an amazing academy. Surely they could have drafted in an academy striker.

[@4exgold]

he wasnt literally off the streets though. the guy was of about semi-professional standard.

[@mixedmitchell9178]

Football has changed a lot over the years and teams didn't have the infrastructure they have these days in the 90's, nowhere near, especially a team like Southampton.

[@rohancassidy2402]

Nice home decor Graham, I particularly like the statue of a man on a horse. It's given a mysterious feel due to the silhouette it casts.

[@ajmc22008]

Graeme has surely lied. Ali dia was signed by him thinking he was a brilliant footballer. 🤣

[@artursfilipovs4923]

Yup probably thought he got a cheap dime on hes hands

[@RebelRebelious]

Was a great story for which Souness digs himself a bigger hole everytime he talks about the subject. On the 20th Aniversary in 2016, The Bleacher Report despatched a reporter to track down Dia to get his version of the saga. After traipsing around half of Africa and Europe, she eventually tracked him down in London! Guess where the reporter was based. Dia went on to gain an honours degree in business studies in the US. If he still has his shirt from that day, that would be smart business. It must be worth a fortune.

[@pacyguy7144]

He's not selling that, that's his best possession

[@brhodes0]

@@pacyguy7144 you can say that again m8

[@bassacoustic1549]

Ali Dia walked so Dom Solanke could run

[@bletrick3352]

Lmaoooo

[@imonlytellingthetruth6562]

Brilliant comment

[@SamMC08]

14 goals so far this season (23/24)

[@robertwoodhams2318]

I was there at the Dell on that day and as someone has already said he almost scored at one point but fluffed the chance completely... I think Souness has been thinking of an explanation for this through all the intervening years and then he blames poor old Matt (probably our best ever player) for it!!!

[@castra58]

Plus throwing Terry Cooper under the bus by saying it was his idea to play him. Souness has been claiming for years to anyone who will listen to him, he wasn't conned. Nobody believes him.

[@castra58]

Souness continues to tell anyone who will listen to him, he wasn't conned. He was. He also claims his only other options on the bench to Dia were defenders. Le Tissier was a right sided midfielder/striker. Australian International Robbie Slater was on the bench that day - a right sided midfielder. He claims he knew he was rubbish in the first five minutes of training the first time he saw him. Strange. After the game he claimed Dia had looked sharp in training and was going to give him another chance. He's even thrown Terry Cooper, his own assistant under the bus by claiming it was his idea. Nice. Souness can deny all he likes. Nobody is fooled. He was conned and suckered in by 'George Weah.'

[@paulmaking1980]

Very funny story about Ali Dia! Graeme Souness was conned, I think Matt Le Tissier said, Ali Dia was rubbish & hopeless in training and when he came on for him after 20 minutes, he ran around the pitch like Bambi on ice, it was very embarrassing, but the funny thing is nearly scored in the match, but the keeper saved it, but just imagine if he had scored!

[@orlandotrustfullandhiscosm4110]

Wait till you lot here that Paul Pogba is Ali Dia's nephew....LOL.

[@cavs6663]

booyakasha My brudda I'm not cousins with a bust

[@orlandotrustfullandhiscosm4110]

@@cavs6663 lol ok ali dia mate.

[@alanfox691]

I thought Pogba was his stepson, lol.

[@davidcarter7337]

What an entrance to make in professional football.... Coming on for Matthew Le Tissier! 😜

[@gracemorganspeaks]

Whoever is reading this and is going through very difficult times everything will be fine. Dont lose focus keep your eyes on your dreams and vision stay safe peace

[@Rodders0223]

Cheers mate. Just had 5 wanks. Bad times.

[@peeper2070]

Waffle

[@robhoopz]

“Don’t lose focus keep your eyes on your dreams” - Ali Dia

[@sratus]

Grace, stop typing meaningless gibberish on the internet, it doesn't help anyone

[@99dndd]

Ali Dia was to playing what Gary Neville was to managing.

[@portcullis5622]

Dia wasn't THAT bad!

[@Harrison1010]

Le Tissier: It was unbelievable 😮😮😮 he ran around the pitch like Bambi on Ice 😅😅😅 it was very embarrassing to watch 😳😳😳

[@TheLoneWolf-iz8ou]

Ah no Graeme ‘He looked sharp in training’

[@bigdogtabooya5426]

Le tis is a genius and a legend More of him pls

[@DhevC]

You have to wonder where Pogba was in all of this

[@derekmay8679]

Pogba is Ali Dea's love child...

[@BlackChrishi]

1:40 "fool"? And this, friends, is why he doesn't like Pogba. Since then, he's had nightmares.

[@acackc9138]

"We weren't kidded, we weren't conned" cause you weren't Greame, that's why you played a Sunday league player in the Premiership.

[@0Bennyman]

So he deliberately played someone who had no experience despite the fact playing a goalkeeper as a striker would have been a better option? And then he gets rid of him afterwards instead of keeping him incase they needed atleast someone on the bench like they apparently did? Make it make sense lmao

[@ITSONLYYOUTUBE-p3p]

He did have experience....the year previously he had scored twice in the top division in Finland for 2 different clubs

[@yutehube4468]

Matt Le Tissier what a legend.

[@colinmc2945]

The story doesn't check out, if he was really that bad, he still wouldn't have been on the bench, they would have taken players from the reserve squad. Souness got conned.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Anyone else think Graham is bullshitting to save face

[@hutch022]

Does anyone have this full match? Need to see it

[@josephxuereb1978]

Harry Redknapp first got the call from ' george weah' and knew it was a windup,shame souness wasnt as clever 😂😂

[@RebelRebelious]

I love what Tony Pulis said after getting a call from 'George Weah' when Gillingham manager. "As if George Weah would have ever heard of Gillingham." 😂

[@josephxuereb1978]

@@RebelRebelious 🤣🤣🤣 if i knew souness was an idiot,i would have scammed him myself

[@sclayton6467]

Berkovic what a player

[@hammer8383]

S Clayton He joined my team West Ham after he was a fantastic player,I was gutted when he left for Celtic for bigger wages ( that wouldn’t happen today ) as Celtic players earn a fraction of what our premier league players do now.

[@skodedickinson6544]

@@hammer8383 bit of an attitude on him though (was funny signing Big John Hartson from you guys too given their history together - soon made him behave himself lol).

[@400Awesomo]

Every time Matt Le Tissier tweets, one of his goals should be awarded to Ali Dia.

[@pacyguy7144]

Classic, souness can't even take the blame hes so embarrassed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rohithraman6488]

Wonder if Graeme Souness blamed Pogba for all this 🤔

[@am2382]

Big up Le Tissier, Southampton's only well known legend.

[@jacobtilstone8365]

Southamptons only loyal legend

[@edmorrison5645]

Ever heard of Alan Shearer or Gareth Bale?

[@davidmcconechy6873]

Flowers, Shearer, Bale, Mané, Benali, Shilton, Van Dijk, Ball, Lallana, Keegan...

[@jacob4690]

David McConechy hahaahahah are you joking me

[@jacob4690]

Ed Morrison Bale?! Are you stupid

[@jaylanianfield719]

Greatest player to ever step foot in the field

[@cfbgoespop]

Souness post game against Leeds says "Dia looked sharp in training".........

[@TommyMaoz]

His name is Aly, not Ali.

[@ajjo-ni8mw]

Fair play to him he should have scored and would have probably got a 4 year deal!!

[@mcharris5200]

Should of played for England much more than he did. Venables should of built team around him for Euro 96

[@user-dq6se6er8j]

Not around Alan Shearer then? One of the world’s top strikers? Or maybe Gascoigne…

[@soyuzdavillan721]

Souness was really hoping she wouldn't ask this one lol

[@qed456]

Souness should just admit that occasionally as a manager you have to trust and rely on others without doing the homework yourself and this occasion it did not work

[@AW-kr9fl]

Football can either be the hardest thing to get into or an unbelievably easy gravy train

[@leepsl11]

Graeme, just admit that you were too idle to check Ali Dia out yourself at the time. And you were not just lazy, but flimsy as well !

[@andpeoplesayineedalife6418]

Should have got him on the show 🤣

[@realist1641]

No mention of Pogba? Surprising.

[@jamalsimba3728]

didnt oh my goal make a vid on this

[@Rahman.y247]

yep

[@ltdn]

To be fair, Ali Dia has played more Premier League minutes than 99.99% of us will ever achieve. Not all of those missing out could do worse...

[@talkinghead3169]

Put down the shovel, Graeme, before you end up in Australia ☺

[@MrSmit1606]

Dont believe Souness So you dont have a U21's? Giving one of them a chance would have been better!

[@peterreid9769]

I don't believe a word of what Souness said.

[@RandomVideosFirst]

Heard he wasn't even a proper professional footballer , he blagged his way up the ladder

[@ITSONLYYOUTUBE-p3p]

The year previously he had been playing in Finlands top division scoring twice....just saying

[@alekaidon1364]

Get souness to put his AirPods in properly so we can hear him better

[@MrRodzilla]

he went on to score 109 international goals, so he wasn't that bad

[@Wally-H]

Yeah. Then he turned his console off.

[@MrRodzilla]

@@Wally-H no you idiot, he apparently did the same trick and managed to act like he was iranian, then he scored 109 international goals, the world record although ronaldo is the big threat to it now

[@SnowFlameSupremacy]

@@MrRodzilla don't call someone idiot when ur the one who is the idiot...this guy is Ali dia and the guy who played for Iran is Ali daei ...two different people with identical names

[@MrRodzilla]

@@SnowFlameSupremacy this happens all the time to me, like in the australia 31-0 american samoa video, i try to joke posing as an american samoan and complaining that the 24th goal was offside and some people went for the serious reply :p

[@talkinghead3169]

Graeme "Not my fault!"

[@roryhalliday3367]

Ali dia, highlights, goals and assists, the next Ronaldo?

[@Wally-H]

I'm not sure there was a camera present to capture what he subsequently did at Blyth Spartans

[@muhdpeep]

how is le tissier look older than souness smh

[@rohanbiligi3831]

Wtf is souness wearing the airpods upside down?

[@steventhompson2511]

Fair play to him. Great Story to tell his Grandchildren :-)

[@derekmay8679]

I think this is one of the best football scam jobs pf all time ...Apart from the Harry Maguire story... These 2 con artists are magnificent .

[@mustafabile897]

Ali Dia must be related to Nicolas Jackson. They are both usless

[@padraigosullivan9979]

He was no Wealdstone Raider

[@jm7897]

Why not just call up someone from the youth team with potential lol?

[@thabisomonakwane8042]

I wish he scored 🤣🤣🤣 Would have been more interesting

[@ITSONLYYOUTUBE-p3p]

The year previously he scored 2 goals in Finlands top division....just saying

[@jaymuller6004]

Souness.... "It's all Matt's fault"

[@CHRISDABAHIA]

2:40 😂

[@HM0092]

Of course it's pogba's fault for not knowing ali dia. He should have known it

[@stevenmcnamara9159]

To be fair he had a better work rate than Matt

[@johnzotheclown]

Surprised Liverpool didn't buy him

[@stephenellison1]

Still can’t hear him properly because he’s got them things in upside down

[@matteastwood87]

Serious question, why didnt matt play more for England?

[@bhew7409]

he hated training and running ;)

[@csb7376]

@@bhew7409 Exactly. Hoddle was underused despite getting 50+ caps, as he actually put tackles in.

[@peeper2070]

Ali Dia has a bad cameo and gets his career ruined. But Alexis has been doing that since 2018

[@Eddy-dn1jx]

Your comment has absolutely no meaning to it. You're assembling words together that in a way pertain to each other, but are essentially random because as a whole they have no meaning. Did you recieve an education or not?

[@momonasri8611]

Graeme Souness I’ll remember this every time you spatting nonsense on skysports

[@aaront9778]

legend

[@vxrdrummer]

He was better than Paul Pogba.

[@alextill4349]

He's better than Patson Daka

[@OsmanLiban]

Lmao souness trying to rewrite history but he’s fooling no one!

[@barriniho]

Are they any Southampton fans with a sense of humour that wear his name and number on these retro remake football shirts?

[@sratus]

Le Tissier straight on KZbin after this to do more intensive medical research.

[@keepsafeandsound6722]

Rumor has it that he is signing for Gerrard at rangers, they say he will become a 40 million pound player.

[@alucardygo4239]

Graham Souness is full of rubbish. He’s had his pants pulled down and thought he was decent so decided to give him a chance. If Dia has scored we’d be talking about a whole other story. 😅

[@mrcactuar7190]

still done better than Alexis Sanchez at manu

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

So they didn’t have any youth players?

[@westbest7678]

Rubbish. Souness had no clue how bad he was until he went on the pitch.

[@easternkimba2753]

Graeme is lying coz, even a right back would have been better than Ali. Souness was conned

[@heeeeeresrossy]

Kelly Cates is my guilty pleasure. Bye.

[@liquidgeorge]

Nothing to be guilty about there.

[@viewlesscheese]

Surely a youth team player would have been better than him.

[@petelowson5481]

Souness talks crap. He was totally fooled. Didn’t do his job and fell for it hook, line and sinker.

[@aryangupta68973]

No views 4 likes Yt gone mad

[@MauriceCox-d9q]

Souness thick a brush

[@badgerbhoy9534]

Is that a wee statue of King Billy on Souness's window ledge? 🤔

[@petemarr824]

So you thought he wasnt any good at all so you bring him on? Come on.. I smell a bit of the brown material here ;)

[@syteanric]

But he was still better than David Luiz

[@cyrusparker33]

Quickly Kevin already did an episode on this years ago, and it was much better. Sky has really been found out for how poor its content is during this lockdown.

[@kylei5549]

It’s not that deep. They’re just tryna entertain us during lockdown

[@circlemagazine]

Why not play youth players?