Episode 755 - Liam Brady
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode it's my pleasure to chat to Arsenal legend Liam Brady, on the launch of his autobiography 'Born to be a Footballer'. We discuss his early years, how football ran in the family, going on trial to Arsenal, building his career in North London alongside a plethora of Irish teammates, the ups and downs, his move to Italy, the work he did as Head of Youth Development, what he makes of the current Arsenal side, and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splog R-Skast, right here on R-Splog.com, how are you? |
| 0:29.2 | Hope you're well, thank you very much indeed, as always. For being here, it's a bit of an early |
| 0:33.0 | R-Skast, I know, but it's been such a quiet week, and we don't hear from Micka Lartetta |
| 0:38.0 | ahead of the Chelsea game until tomorrow. I thought I would put this one out, it's kind of timeless |
| 0:42.7 | anyway. So it gives you something to listen to on a Thursday before things pick up ahead of our game |
| 0:47.5 | against Chelsea on Saturday evening. It was my pleasure this week, yesterday in fact, to talk to |
| 0:56.0 | a genuine Arsenal legend, Liam Brady. He has a brand new book out, it's called Born to Be a |
| 1:02.3 | Footballer. He was in Dublin for the launch of that book, the Irish launch of that book last night, |
| 1:08.0 | so we met up yesterday afternoon and had a good ol' chat about the book itself, his time at Arsenal, |
| 1:13.4 | the ups and downs, his move to Italy, the work he did at Arsenal, his head of youth development, |
| 1:18.8 | and lots more besides, stay tuned for a bit more after, but right now this is me and Liam Brady. |
| 1:26.4 | Three waiting again for the crossroom prize, Stapleton. Oh, that prize in there. |
| 1:35.4 | Oh, Kati, what a beautiful look! Look at that! Oh, look at that! |
| 1:41.9 | Okay, well it's my pleasure to be sitting in a Dublin hotel room with an Arsenal legend, Liam Brady. |
| 1:46.6 | Hello. Hey Andrew, your book, Born to Be a Footballer, is out now. This isn't the first book you've |
| 1:54.9 | written though, or been involved in. You tell a story fairly early on about a book that was produced |
| 2:00.9 | in your 20s. What made you decide to go again and do something else? Well, the first book was a |
| 2:09.2 | bit of a disaster in as much as it got me sued by a journalist who didn't take kindly to what |
| 2:18.8 | I said about him in the book. It made absolutely nothing and I ended up in the high court in London |
| 2:27.5 | defending myself against the libel case. That kind of put me off doing a book for many, many years, |
| 2:37.8 | but during lockdown it was Nick Callow, who I think it's an open secret. Nick is a quite a big |
| 2:45.9 | Arsenal supporter and he convinced me to go again and this time I felt I had a story, first time |
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