Career
Souness played for both of the Edinburgh derby rivals, Hibs and Hearts. An outside right, Souness was unable to break into the Hibs team ahead of Scotland international Gordon Smith. Souness retired from playing football soon afterwards, when he became a qualified actuary.
Souness played in three first class matches for the Scotland cricket team
After retiring from competitive sport, Souness climbed over 200 of the Scottish Munros. In September 1990, he was killed in a climbing accident on the Jungfrau mountain in Switzerland.
