Arsenal legend on his colourful life: The wizard who nurtured Saka and Wilshere
The wearer of many hats is thinking back to the time he became a matador for the afternoon. It has been a fun walk through the memories with Liam Brady and the journey has brought us to his encounter with a bull.
That would be Graeme Souness. The place was Genoa, the year was 1984 and Souness had just stepped out of the darkness and into a fight. It is quite a tale.
‘I’d left Sampdoria that summer to go to Inter Milan and Graeme was coming in,’ Brady tells Mail Sport. ‘He’d moved into my apartment, and me and my wife helped him a bit with the move. Showed him a few restaurants, furniture shops, that stuff.
‘So a little while later, Inter are playing at Sampdoria in a pre-season friendly. The ball comes to me from the kick-off and suddenly a man comes charging in off the ground. It was like a kung fu tackle, knee-height. I was like a matador getting out of the way of a raging bull.
‘Well, it was Graeme and I’m thinking, “What was that about?” Trevor Francis was at Sampdoria at the time, so I asked him.
‘Apparently, when we left the apartment, the removal people took all our lamps and when Graeme moved in on his first night, after going for dinner or whatever, there was no light. He couldn’t find his way around the house and blamed me. He nearly killed me for that in a friendly!’
Brady is having a good laugh about it. Just as he has a good laugh about the day Souness, now a Mail Sport columnist, floated the idea during his time as Rangers manager of Brady becoming the first Catholic to play at Ibrox.
‘I think it was tongue in cheek,’ Brady says, but then again, he always did stand out.
He stood out as the elegant, left-footed Irish playmaker in those fine Arsenal sides of the 1970s. He stood out as a player from the British
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