The great captains of my follow following time, Jock Shaw, Geordie Young, Ian McColl, Eric Caldow, Bobby Shearer, John Greig, Terry Butcher, Richard Gough were all leaders and drivers of men and they all knew when to be which. Souness wasn’t nominal captain but when he was on the field the only captain’s job he didn’t do was call the toss.
Poor Tavernier hasn’t got the players round him that these men had.