Liam Brady

Uh, they had won the cup in 1989 and had won nothing after that, and a succession of managers had come and gone.

Uh, the legend that was Billy McNeill, uh, Liam Brady, uh, Lou Macari.

Uh, and the, the place was in a state, and the fans reacted and the match, uh, days, the attendance at the last game before the takeover was 10,000.

You know, Ma- um, Peter, Scott was talking about the, we- I don't think we've got time to sort of again analyze the last game and where it go- it went wrong specifically, but as part of a bigger picture Again, Martin O'Neill was asked today, what, what's Celtic going to look like sort of coming out of this break? Because, yeah, they've had three weeks to clear heads, get their, you know, their, their heads in the game, whatever the, the kind of cliches might be.

You know, Thierry Henry's the best player to ever play for the club, and I think there's really much question about it.

I think Dennis Bergkamp's a close second alongside Liam Brady.

I mean, those three are kind of the top three.

And then, [sighs] and then the thing about Thierry Henry is that he obviously left Arsenal for Barcelona, which obviously caused a little bit of friction.

You know, it is your world.

Liam Brady was the academy manager at the time.

He was almost the gatekeeper of your dreams.

Liam Brady basically said, "Look, we think you've got a fantastic left foot.

We think you can play in Arsenal's first team, but physically, we don't think you are good enough, uh, or strong enough."

Hal Robson-Kanu.

And I, and I, and I would say, you know, I joined Arsenal as a schoolboy when I was 10, you know?

Mm.

Um, you know, which at that moment was, was destined, appeared to be destined.

But no, um, they, uh, w- I don't know who was voted Man of the Match that, that day, but, um, for me it was one of a, a, a classic display of Brady, Liam Brady brainpower.

Yeah.

He, uh, he'd been influential on the game before, but never more than now because they say a team's, you know, vulnerable just after it's scored and, and this was the classic example of it in terms of Manchester United.

Whether Sammy was culpable to a, a percentage point, I don't know.

But, uh, United were broken on far too easily.

Brady went up, up the, uh, the left wing where Arsenal had had, had actually had a bit of joy earlier in the game.

Uh, Graham Rix was overlapping as so often he did.

Why? Why

is he different than Liam Brady or Johnny Giles? I'll

tell you why.

You can talk about him winning all the Premier Leagues, FA Cups, being a United captain, the most dominant era for United.

Ray Keane gets in at two.

I think there's better technically Irish soccer players than Ray Keane.

Liam Brady, I was seemingly in back in the day, was like absolutely...

Ah yeah, sure to go to Italy and