Brady backs McCarthy to be boss again

Irish football legend Liam Brady, who worked as an assistant to Giovanni Trapattoni, has backed Mick McCarthy to become the next manager of Ireland.

“For me it would be Mick McCarthy,” he said yesterday. “I don’t know what his contractual situation is at Ipswich but what I do know is that he’s demonstrated before that he’s capable of doing the job. He has broad shoulders, he had to put up with an awful lot of messing when Saipan happened and people turned against him. Most of the media turned against him, public opinion turned against him because of how popular Roy Keane was.

“But the man got on with it. He’s demonstrated since then he’s a very, very capable manager. I don’t know if it’s possible to get him but he would be number one on my list.”