WE HOPE BILLO and the lads are allowed to have cake on Ash Wednesday, because there’s a birthday in the house. Here’s why we love Liam Brady:
1. His left foot
Never forget that he was — to use the modern parlance — a top, top, top player. (The Phoenix From The Flames is worth a watch too.)
2. ‘I’m already playing aboad’
One – probably apocryphal – story about the then Arsenal star, always stuck with me. The Gunners chairman sat the Irish midfielder down in the boardroom at Highbury and tried to convince Brady that a ‘move abroad’ wouldn’t be a good idea. ‘I’m already playing abroad,’ was apparently the reply. We choose to believe it.
3. This picture with Hector
INPHO/Cathal Noonan
4. This argument with a reporter while in charge of Brighton
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5. He’s part of RTÉ’s football circus
6. And he’s loyal to Trap
… even if you wish he wasn’t sometimes.
YouTube: RTE
7. This scrap with Sadlier was one of the TV moments of last year
Forget your Breaking Bad, The Killing, whatevs. This was gold.
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8. He’s not easily impressed by walking sticks at Croagh Patrick
Pic: Inpho
Call that a shillelagh?
9. He played 72 times for Ireland, when we weren’t getting to any World Cups
10. Case in point… Liam Brady 1 Brazil 0
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10. This picture:
Pic: Pa Images
Anything to add?
