Arsenal's midfield artist, Juventus title winner, and one of Ireland's finest ever footballers
FootballLiam Brady played football the way a novelist writes a sentence. Slowly, deliberately, and in the end exactly where the ball was supposed to go.
Born in Dublin in 1956, Brady signed for Arsenal as a teenager and became the creative fulcrum of the club through the mid to late 1970s. His left foot was the best in English football, his vision the sharpest in a league full of hard men who rarely had the time to notice. He lifted the FA Cup in 1979 in a final remembered purely for his fingerprints on the build up to every goal. The following summer he left for Italy, where few English league exports had ever thrived, and proceeded to win back to back Serie A titles with Juventus.
For Ireland he earned 72 caps and remains one of the three or four names always mentioned when the country picks its greatest ever team. After Juventus came Sampdoria, Internazionale, Ascoli and West Ham, before a move into management with Celtic and a long, influential run as head of youth development at Arsenal, where he signed and nurtured a generation of Hale End graduates.
Off the pitch Brady is thoughtful, softly spoken and reluctant to take credit. A twenty year stint as a pundit on RTE made him a household name in Ireland, where his readings of matches were as unhurried and precise as his passing.
At Steam Wine Bar he brings the full sweep of that story, from Highbury in the seventies to Turin in the eighties, told in the same considered Dublin cadence that has guided Irish football thinking for half a century.
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