Henry as a striker above Brady, no way. Brady won the balls, set up the goals and scored the goals. Henry ran on to passes, take his blistering pace away and the teammates who gave him the ball. As for Bergkamp, he's on a par with Brady not above him.
@@stoolpigeon4285 adams was what the arsenal should always stand for. Having a necessary minimum of technique a maximum of willow and doing the best possible in reach of your own capacities in loyal sercice to the club. The others were good players.
As a Tottenham supporter who enjoyed the midfield of Ardilles, Hoddle and Villa in the 70s and 80s I had great respect and envy for Arsenal's Liam Brady.
That was an era when every country had "midfield generals". Wonderful creative midfielders that every ball had to go to. England had Hoddle, Ireland had Brady, France had Platini, West Germany had Beckenbauer etc.etc. Great memories ! 👌 😊
@@patcallinan3992 germany never ever had a midfield general only destroyers who worked one for the other and if somebody had skil he was bullied by his own team mates.
I saw Liam Brady rip us apart at White Hart Lane an Highbury , a couple of times. One of the best I’ve ever seen . He played for the team and not just himself. That cup final was something else , he controlled that game. Always had big respect for Liam Brady .
Met him on a train 2d class from brighton to london in 1999 as he came back from scouting youth for the arsenal. So so so humble....you would'nt believe. 👌👌
Liam Brady in midfield, David O'Leary centerback, Frank Stapleton centerforward. How could the Republic of Ireland not qualify for tournaments. PS. I still have a Shoot ! magazine with the 3 of them as teenagers pictured together as Arsenal apprentice.
@@mauricerevelle8451 Classy comment. Spurs fans recognised Brady's talent and respected him just as Arsenal fans couldn't help but recognised Glenn Hoddle's talent and respect him. They were two immense players, although Spurs fans were lucky to see more of Hoddle than the Arsenal fans did of Brady.
I've been an arsenal fan for 55 years I idolised liam Brady as a youngster years later sat next to him on a plane going to Italy I was so pleased a true legend and so honourable
Amazing also looking back that he could play his style of graceful and skilful football on the state of some of the club pitches that existed in England at the time.
I saw him playing for West Ham at the Baseball Ground towards the end of his career and I'll never forget how he completely ran the game. He must have been brilliant in his prime.
The great Brady, he almost used pure skill to work his magic, you would never see him just push and rush, he always tricked the opponent before going past and delivering a killer pass or slashing in a great shot. Underrated, like so many of his era - Brooking, Currie, Hoddle even. Kudos to Rix who delivered that superb classic cross to the far post, was not a Bailey mistake, he was deceived by the shape of the cross.
I remember the magic of Chippy all too well and as a 17 year old was totally devastated when he left for Italy. He is one truly brilliant and talented player who would thrive in the current game.
Gosh I remember this final as if it were yesterday. Phoning (on a landline) my uncle (Utd fan) taking the pi55 when we went 2-0 up only to be phoned back at 2-1 and again at 2-2. He slammed the phone down on me when I phoned at 3-2. Great times and great memories. Years later I named my son after this gem of a player. 😊
@@namer6914Seems like you’re on your own here. Even Spurs some fans agree. I saw him play live and Zidane was very similar in terms of how much more time they had on the ball than any other player.
Mark mate , people who have been watching football only since the premier league don't realise we were all watching great players before some of them were born......Ps I wish Everton had a great player these days.
I was there! Sat in the stand at almost at the place the goal shown was filmed! I will never ever forget that! Alan Sunderland just did the business! Great drive back home to Co. Durham afterwards! COYG!
I was there sitting in front of the TV set at 3am, on the ABC in Melbourne Australia when Sunderland got his toe to it. I jumped for joy like crazy. On the Monday, at school (Caulfield Grammar School) it was the talk of the day and I was giving it to the United school mates.
@@hadrian3487 Yes! I drove back the next day along the M1and saw many dejected United fans en route to Manchester! A little wave of my blue and yellow scarf out the window did wonders! COYG!
I watched this FA Cup Final in Jolly’s department store TV department in Bath. I was 10 years old and my mum left me there sitting on a stool watching the game surrounded by husbands of women shopping. It was such an amazing game and the atmosphere in that TV department was something special. The game was so good to watch. Liam Brady run the show in the first half and then the dramatic ending with Sammy McIlroy running ecstatically to the United supporters. Then within a minute Alan Sunderland had won the game and he was ecstatic with absolute wonderment at what he achieved. It was the most incredible afternoon. I’ll never forget it.
May 1979 I was 11, and it was a magical golden era of football. The whole country stopped for the FA Cup Final. Everyone knew every player and their shirt number. I feel blessed I grew up in those times...
Not by my generation of Arsenal fans.He is my legend and why I support the Arsenal.In 1979 I became a gooner because of Liam and the Irish lads.3 -2 to the Arsenal. What a day.45 years as a gooner, what a beautiful club.Arsenal Irish.
@@michaelhughes9067 well that was my point really, I don't suppose he has been forgotten by the Arsenal lot but generally, when they look back at creative players of that generation, they don't seem to include him ..... apart from anything he had a career in Italy as well. BTW I saw him at Bramall Lane and we got picked apart.
The thing I love about this so much is that it's presented as a genuine lover letter to Liam Brady but the pictures of him make it seem like an episode of the day to day because he looks ridiculous. God bless you Liam what a player.
I'm a Manchester United fan, and I must say Liam Brady was an all-time great, and if I was picking an Arsenal all time, 11 Brady must be included. Manchester United were undone by Brady's genuis in the 1979 FA Cup Final. He had a left foot like a wand, beautiful balance, and glided across those muddy pitches in the 70s as if he wore skates, a truly great player.
The slide- rule pass. Gascoigne had that too. But that 1979 FA cup final. Brady had controlled the game for 80 mins then it all went Pete Tong with a late collapse. He just controlled it for the last 5 mins so Arsenal won despite themselves. Controlling the game is a rare gift. Brady had it.
Liam Brady, what a player, its that goal in 1978 at White Hart Lane that does it for me. I was 11, no live league matches in those days and the BBC staff had been on strike so no match of the day on the Saturday, but I recall the strike ended in time to show the highlights, I reckon the strikers were gooners and so we all got to see the goal that for me started the legend. Brady Brady, Brady Brady, born is the king of Highbury!
One of our best ever !!! My first Arsenal game live having come over with mr Dad from Ireland for the weekend and chippy scored the winner !!! Never forget as a 14 year old what that Alan Sunderland goal did for me 😊😊😊
I played against him once in an under sixteen local match. He stood out as easily the best player on the pitch and always seemed to have so much time to pick out the best pass and to read the game.
I remember listening to this match on the radio when I was 14. The ending when Alan Sunderland and his huge perm pounced to knock it in was exhilarating beyond words. You'd think it couldn't be bettered but somehow Michael Thomas managed to 10 years later at Anfield.
I was 11 at the time, maybe it was the first time I experienced the ecstasy of being an Arsenal fan having experienced the agony of the year before. Its been a fascinating experience since then. You don't choose to be an Arsenal fan, Arsenal choose you. COYG
Loved Brady, and have always admired Arsenal style. They are a successful club who buy and sell players like the best Liverpool etc. ( Whereas Chel and City just spent so much crazy money to get to the top)
Ireland's best ever starting 11, GK Jennings, RB O'Shea, CB McGrath, CB Blanchflower, LB Irwin, M Roy Keane, M Giles, M Brady, F Whiteside, F Robbie Keane, F Best
That’s a very good team but didn’t Jennings, Blanchflower, Whiteside and Best play for the Northern Ireland international team rather than the Rep. of Ireland?
I think he was the first player I knew to be described as having a "cultured left foot". My bother went to that final, I think he was 14 at the time. He got vouchers from every home game programme, and for that you were guaranteed a ticket to the cup final. He can still talk your ear off about that day!
My Grandad took me to my first game in 1977. Standing in the North Bank watching the maestro Liam Brady is an experience I will never forget. I only saw one other player live who had that same effect and he played for the enemy, Paul Gascoigne. Brady was an artist and a rare genius.
Between 1970 and the coming of the Premier League there were 3 truly great players who played in the English League. Paul Gascoigne, Kenny Dalglish and Chippy Brady.
It was so exciting football in those days, players getting forward, taking people on, with no boring possession based football, to watch incredible players like Ian Brady was something to look forward to, what a fantastic player he really was. When I watch football these days I get so bored by all the passing, time waisting, I really bother to watch anymore. I think Man City would not beat many of todays top teams.
I was there the best cup final I've ever been to the emotions running out of control 2.0 up and suddenly 2.2 you could hear a pin drop our end and the suddenly from nowhere an eruption of noise you had to be there to experience what I'm saying there were some great games at this time I thought the 5.0 thrashing of the yids at white Hart Lane was the best and Brady played his part in that game as well but this cup final will always have a special part in my heart ❤️ ❤
Chippy Brady. I never realised until much later that his nickname had nothing to do with his talent on the pitch but was instead because of his predilection for deep-fried potato sticks.
Liam Brady was such a brilliant footballer. I don’t believe the Arsenal and a lot of fans today have given him the respect he deserve. I think David Beckham also took many leaves out of his book.
Brady was the greatest gunner imo. Unbelievable player. The first premier player to prove himself in Europe. As good if not better than Platini who was considered best in Europe at that time.
The incredible, unsurpassed, unsurpassable, Liam Brady. My father was a season ticket holder way back and he came home one Saturday evening, told me he’d just seen an exhibition he’d never seen before from a kid called Brady. He said this boy literally CONTROLLED THE GAME. He claimed he’d never seen midfield football like it. Brady was always an Arsenal thing and sadly never played in a really good Arsenal team, but he really was exceptionally good. Closest comparison I’d draw is maybe Cruyff. I’d reluctantly dismiss Henry at this level and say only Bergkamp at his absolute sublime best was on the Brady page.
Great club player, never really shone consistently in international games. Couple of highlights - scoring against Brazil (1-0) and dominating Holland for a half but it seemed that he left the best for club games.
He never shone in Internationals because Jack Charlton didn't want flare players and wanted to play simple box to box football over the top of midfield. They had a falling out
If there were a physical contact between the player and the playing suface of the DVD I would have worn my copy out! I use the build up to the first goal where he left the manc midfield standing as an example when today comparing Martin Ødergaard to the Midfield General - always head up, total situational awareness, fleet footed and masterful ball control with perfect foresight, weight and precision of a delivered ball... He was a midfild masterclass! #COYG
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As an Arsenal supporter for 53 years, the only Gunners I can place above Liam Brady are Henry and Bergkamp. He really was that good.
Long time before there will be any players close to them, especially with the likes of Havertz and Saka
Henry as a striker above Brady, no way. Brady won the balls, set up the goals and scored the goals. Henry ran on to passes, take his blistering pace away and the teammates who gave him the ball. As for Bergkamp, he's on a par with Brady not above him.
I agree with your top 3, I would probably go Bergkamp, Henry, Brady, but they were all great.
Not Adams?
@@stoolpigeon4285 adams was what the arsenal should always stand for. Having a necessary minimum of technique a maximum of willow and doing the best possible in reach of your own capacities in loyal sercice to the club. The others were good players.
As a Tottenham supporter who enjoyed the midfield of Ardilles, Hoddle and Villa in the 70s and 80s I had great respect and envy for Arsenal's Liam Brady.
Liverpool fan, ditto
That was an era when every country had "midfield generals". Wonderful creative midfielders that every ball had to go to. England had Hoddle, Ireland had Brady, France had Platini, West Germany had Beckenbauer etc.etc. Great memories ! 👌 😊
@Cliff589 wouldn't work
@@patcallinan3992 germany never ever had a midfield general only destroyers who worked one for the other and if somebody had skil he was bullied by his own team mates.
@Cliff589 football is a team sport. Therfore.
I saw Liam Brady rip us apart at White Hart Lane an Highbury , a couple of times. One of the best I’ve ever seen . He played for the team and not just himself. That cup final was something else , he controlled that game. Always had big respect for Liam Brady .
Met him on a train 2d class from brighton to london in 1999 as he came back from scouting youth for the arsenal.
So so so humble....you would'nt believe.
👌👌
Liam Brady in midfield, David O'Leary centerback, Frank Stapleton centerforward. How could the Republic of Ireland not qualify for tournaments.
PS. I still have a Shoot ! magazine with the 3 of them as teenagers pictured together as Arsenal apprentice.
@@alexman8800 have a look at the double winningvteam of 1971. 5 or 6 irishmen???
@@mauricerevelle8451 Classy comment. Spurs fans recognised Brady's talent and respected him just as Arsenal fans couldn't help but recognised Glenn Hoddle's talent and respect him. They were two immense players, although Spurs fans were lucky to see more of Hoddle than the Arsenal fans did of Brady.
Chippy Brady, he was sublime. One of my favourite players that I had the pleasure watching play at Highbury, a true Gooner.
I've been an arsenal fan for 55 years I idolised liam Brady as a youngster years later sat next to him on a plane going to Italy I was so pleased a true legend and so honourable
Magnificent player, simply magnificent, a joy to watch.
Thanks for bringing back another great football memory.
Such a great player. I remember him dribbling past 4 players on a muddy, rutted pitch in a midweek game- to do it in such conditions was unbelievable.
Amazing also looking back that he could play his style of graceful and skilful football on the state of some of the club pitches that existed in England at the time.
I saw him playing for West Ham at the Baseball Ground towards the end of his career and I'll never forget how he completely ran the game. He must have been brilliant in his prime.
The great Brady, he almost used pure skill to work his magic, you would never see him just push and rush, he always tricked the opponent before going past and delivering a killer pass or slashing in a great shot. Underrated, like so many of his era - Brooking, Currie, Hoddle even.
Kudos to Rix who delivered that superb classic cross to the far post, was not a Bailey mistake, he was deceived by the shape of the cross.
My teenage footballing hero. As an Arsenal fan the player I most remember and that team, the Irish Arsenal is the one I most remember.
You could see what a great player he was on the tv, but if you were at the game you watched something magnificent.
I remember the magic of Chippy all too well and as a 17 year old was totally devastated when he left for Italy.
He is one truly brilliant and talented player who would thrive in the current game.
Gosh I remember this final as if it were yesterday. Phoning (on a landline) my uncle (Utd fan) taking the pi55 when we went 2-0 up only to be phoned back at 2-1 and again at 2-2. He slammed the phone down on me when I phoned at 3-2. Great times and great memories. Years later I named my son after this gem of a player. 😊
For me he's the original zidane !!!!
I was just thinking that
Hahahahahaha 😂😂 arsenal fans never disappoint
Di Stefano was the Zidane of his day
@@namer6914Seems like you’re on your own here. Even Spurs some fans agree. I saw him play live and Zidane was very similar in terms of how much more time they had on the ball than any other player.
@@namer6914 find another sport to watch ya weapon.
He was one Class Player ,loved watching him
An LFC fan but remember Liam Brady as a youngster, he was absolute class 👏
He was a top class player. One of the best for me.
Mark mate , people who have been watching football only since the premier league don't realise we were all watching great players before some of them were born......Ps I wish Everton had a great player these days.
I was there! Sat in the stand at almost at the place the goal shown was filmed! I will never ever forget that! Alan Sunderland just did the business! Great drive back home to Co. Durham afterwards! COYG!
I was there sitting in front of the TV set at 3am, on the ABC in Melbourne Australia when Sunderland got his toe to it. I jumped for joy like crazy.
On the Monday, at school (Caulfield Grammar School) it was the talk of the day and I was giving it to the United school mates.
@@hadrian3487 Yes! I drove back the next day along the M1and saw many dejected United fans en route to Manchester! A little wave of my blue and yellow scarf out the window did wonders! COYG!
I was there and will never forget him
I watched this FA Cup Final in Jolly’s department store TV department in Bath. I was 10 years old and my mum left me there sitting on a stool watching the game surrounded by husbands of women shopping. It was such an amazing game and the atmosphere in that TV department was something special. The game was so good to watch. Liam Brady run the show in the first half and then the dramatic ending with Sammy McIlroy running ecstatically to the United supporters. Then within a minute Alan Sunderland had won the game and he was ecstatic with absolute wonderment at what he achieved. It was the most incredible afternoon. I’ll never forget it.
May 1979 I was 11, and it was a magical golden era of football. The whole country stopped for the FA Cup Final. Everyone knew every player and their shirt number. I feel blessed I grew up in those times...
I am no Arsenal fan .... but I don't understand why Liam Brady seems almost 'overlooked' ?
Over looked by who?
@@leebush4053 you, Lee Bush
@@leebush4053 are you an Arsenal fan?
Not by my generation of Arsenal fans.He is my legend and why I support the Arsenal.In 1979 I became a gooner because of Liam and the Irish lads.3 -2 to the Arsenal. What a day.45 years as a gooner, what a beautiful club.Arsenal Irish.
@@michaelhughes9067 well that was my point really, I don't suppose he has been forgotten by the Arsenal lot but generally, when they look back at creative players of that generation, they don't seem to include him ..... apart from anything he had a career in Italy as well. BTW I saw him at Bramall Lane and we got picked apart.
'Chippy Brady'. He got the nickname not for his deft touch but for his love of fish & chips. Some player!!
Brady Brady born as the king of Highbury 😂COYG. Chippy Brady .Your never take the north bank 🎉
My favorite player. Saw him at Highbury 1979 Arsenal v Spurs 1-0. Same class as Henry and Bergkamp.
The thing I love about this so much is that it's presented as a genuine lover letter to Liam Brady but the pictures of him make it seem like an episode of the day to day because he looks ridiculous. God bless you Liam what a player.
I'm a Manchester United fan, and I must say Liam Brady was an all-time great, and if I was picking an Arsenal all time, 11 Brady must be included. Manchester United were undone by Brady's genuis in the 1979 FA Cup Final. He had a left foot like a wand, beautiful balance, and glided across those muddy pitches in the 70s as if he wore skates, a truly great player.
The slide- rule pass. Gascoigne had that too. But that 1979 FA cup
final. Brady had controlled the game for 80 mins then it all went Pete Tong with a late collapse. He just controlled it for the last 5 mins so Arsenal won despite themselves. Controlling the game is a rare gift. Brady had it.
Chippy and Johnny Giles, two of the best midfielders Ireland has produced, could both put a pass on a sixpence.
Awesome player.
Was there as a 13 yr old kid , what a day what a player . Born is the king of Highbury !
My favourite Arsenal player ever . A football genius . I was at that 1979 final by the way .
Liam Brady, what a player, its that goal in 1978 at White Hart Lane that does it for me. I was 11, no live league matches in those days and the BBC staff had been on strike so no match of the day on the Saturday, but I recall the strike ended in time to show the highlights, I reckon the strikers were gooners and so we all got to see the goal that for me started the legend. Brady Brady, Brady Brady, born is the king of Highbury!
Liam Brady is the reason I support arsenal.
A painful support, if he had stayed you might have a UCL
Skill + intelligence = Liam Brady 🇮🇪
One of our best ever !!! My first Arsenal game live having come over with mr Dad from Ireland for the weekend and chippy scored the winner !!! Never forget as a 14 year old what that Alan Sunderland goal did for me 😊😊😊
Excellent video. Brady was an all time great.
GREAT GREAT FOOTBALLER LOVED LIAM BRADY. ABSOLUTE CLASS PLAYER....
Brady is a legend and we'll respected in the game off football
By far the most talented Irish player I have seen. The stylo boots.
I played against him once in an under sixteen local match. He stood out as easily the best player on the pitch and always seemed to have so much time to pick out the best pass and to read the game.
LB was one of the best in that era. So good.
I remember listening to this match on the radio when I was 14. The ending when Alan Sunderland and his huge perm pounced to knock it in was exhilarating beyond words. You'd think it couldn't be bettered but somehow Michael Thomas managed to 10 years later at Anfield.
Why run when you can glide? Liam Brady was the most elegant player of his generation.
I remember watching that FA Cup Final age 15 with my family. It was truly sui generis. Thanks for posting.
Im an Irish Arsenal fan so you already know how i feel about Liam Brady ABSOLUTE FUCKING LEGEND
Genius of a player...one of the very few who went to italy and was a success
As a spurs supporter I don't mind saying Liam Brady pure class what a player
Brilliant Brilliant player. Seen him at Maine Rd a few times. .
I was 11 at the time, maybe it was the first time I experienced the ecstasy of being an Arsenal fan having experienced the agony of the year before. Its been a fascinating experience since then. You don't choose to be an Arsenal fan, Arsenal choose you. COYG
Loved Brady, and have always admired Arsenal style.
They are a successful club who buy and sell players like the best Liverpool etc.
( Whereas Chel and City just spent so much crazy money to get to the top)
As the song went.. born is the king of highbury BRADY BRADY !!
fabulous narration thank you
Ireland's best ever starting 11, GK Jennings, RB O'Shea, CB McGrath, CB Blanchflower, LB Irwin, M Roy Keane, M Giles, M Brady, F Whiteside, F Robbie Keane, F Best
England's B team.
You’d be in Mensa’s C team
McGrath is the only one of them born in England, even at that his mother was Irish, and he was raised in Dublin since he was a baby.
@@barryb90he’s a little Englander implying England is all that Barry….yet that have won the exact same no. of trophies as us in the last 50 years 🥱
That’s a very good team but didn’t Jennings, Blanchflower, Whiteside and Best play for the Northern Ireland international team rather than the Rep. of Ireland?
I think he was the first player I knew to be described as having a "cultured left foot". My bother went to that final, I think he was 14 at the time. He got vouchers from every home game programme, and for that you were guaranteed a ticket to the cup final. He can still talk your ear off about that day!
As good a left foot as I've ever seen.
Wow this guy could embellish a turd into a diamond. 😅 i haven't had as good a chuckle as that in a while. Thank you.
Best player born on our Ireland.
If you include the whole island George Best has something to say about that.
@@playlist9980 Yes George would have a say but that is quite a measure. 2 class players.
My Grandad took me to my first game in 1977. Standing in the North Bank watching the maestro Liam Brady is an experience I will never forget.
I only saw one other player live who had that same effect and he played for the enemy, Paul Gascoigne.
Brady was an artist and a rare genius.
my first hero,that goal at WHL, 79' cup final, wish he had never left the arsenal
Brady seems something like Zidane-meets-Giggs, 25 years ahead of schedule
Between 1970 and the coming of the Premier League there were 3 truly great players who played in the English League. Paul Gascoigne, Kenny Dalglish and Chippy Brady.
and later to be a nutcase Hoddle.
Wow, i have never heard of this player. What an elegant, intelligent player. He is easily on par with Zidane, xavi and inesta
Absolutely fantastic player.
A friend of mine reckoned he was still quality up until the day he retired. Just seemed to see the players on the pitch differently to everybody else.
No Arsenal fan here But Liam Brady is one of my favourite players of all time
Never liked Arsenal but Liam Brady always been one of my favourite players....
Top class player 💯
It was so exciting football in those days, players getting forward, taking people on, with no boring possession based football, to watch incredible players like Ian Brady was something to look forward to, what a fantastic player he really was. When I watch football these days I get so bored by all the passing, time waisting, I really bother to watch anymore. I think Man City would not beat many of todays top teams.
I was there the best cup final I've ever been to the emotions running out of control 2.0 up and suddenly 2.2 you could hear a pin drop our end and the suddenly from nowhere an eruption of noise you had to be there to experience what I'm saying there were some great games at this time I thought the 5.0 thrashing of the yids at white Hart Lane was the best and Brady played his part in that game as well but this cup final will always have a special part in my heart ❤️ ❤
Am I crazy or do these Brady clips remind other people of Zidane?
Zidanes favourite player.
Reminds me more of a left footed Baggio.
Chippy Brady. I never realised until much later that his nickname had nothing to do with his talent on the pitch but was instead because of his predilection for deep-fried potato sticks.
The reason I became an Arsenal fan!
Chippy was the man
Liam Brady was such a brilliant footballer. I don’t believe the Arsenal and a lot of fans today have given him the respect he deserve. I think David Beckham also took many leaves out of his book.
Never knew, just how good Brady was.
What a don! Don't see players like him these days
Brady was the greatest gunner imo. Unbelievable player. The first premier player to prove himself in Europe. As good if not better than Platini who was considered best in Europe at that time.
A magnificent player an all time Arsenal great .
I wasn't there, but had a scarf as a young boy with the final score of this match on it - toasty! Get in!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 you’ve got a bright future, or your past has been bright and now your an extremely good professional 👌🏽👍🏽
I was in that stand behind that goal. Anybody else still around? Rix was also a very good player.
Such a well writen piece, nice one
I watched it , guess I’m getting old !
The incredible, unsurpassed, unsurpassable, Liam Brady. My father was a season ticket holder way back and he came home one Saturday evening, told me he’d just seen an exhibition he’d never seen before from a kid called Brady. He said this boy literally CONTROLLED THE GAME. He claimed he’d never seen midfield football like it. Brady was always an Arsenal thing and sadly never played in a really good Arsenal team, but he really was exceptionally good. Closest comparison I’d draw is maybe Cruyff. I’d reluctantly dismiss Henry at this level and say only Bergkamp at his absolute sublime best was on the Brady page.
My favourite player of all time.
Great club player, never really shone consistently in international games. Couple of highlights - scoring against Brazil (1-0) and dominating Holland for a half but it seemed that he left the best for club games.
He never shone in Internationals because Jack Charlton didn't want flare players and wanted to play simple box to box football over the top of midfield. They had a falling out
The supreme architect.
An excellent video.
So many Irish players in those teams
A wonderful football ⚽️ player
If there were a physical contact between the player and the playing suface of the DVD I would have worn my copy out!
I use the build up to the first goal where he left the manc midfield standing as an example when today comparing Martin Ødergaard to the Midfield General - always head up, total situational awareness, fleet footed and masterful ball control with perfect foresight, weight and precision of a delivered ball...
He was a midfild masterclass!
#COYG
I remember this as young boy Alan Sunderland winner 🏆 am born in Islington I'm a born Arsenal fan
Was Mortified When United Got the Equaliser As A Gig With My Boyhood Heroes Status Quo Awaited at the Birmingham NEC. In The End Great Day, Great Gig...
Class player ❤
Great video
Amazing player!
Remember watching this i was 8..great cup final..most were irsh
He's a stone cold legend from the days when the only protection a world class player had was a condom