"Currently in the Middle East, in Abu Dhabi Airport, I'll give you a quick glimpse of where I am. That is my plane. That I am meant to be catching to go back to the UK. My mum said to me - bear with me - when I was a little boy, 'wherever you are, there's never a dull moment.'"
"I'm at this airport, and we're hearing some pretty loud bangs going off, and that is anti-missiles taking out missiles that are being fired at some American base."
Graeme Souness, the Liverpool and Scotland legend, is currently trapped at Abu Dhabi airport during escalating military tensions between Iran, the United States, and Israel. Multiple Gulf nations including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait have been targeted in the violence. The conflict threatens to significantly impact football, particularly Iran's participation in the upcoming World Cup in the United States. The Iranian Football Federation president has indicated Iran's attendance is unlikely. Souness, who was in the UAE as a Liverpool ambassador, experienced lengthy delays at the airport and documented hearing loud explosions from anti-missile systems intercepting incoming missiles targeting American military bases in the region.
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