Liam Brady: Bill O’Herlihy was team manager

If the RTÉ studio was the dressing room, Bill O’Herlihy was the team manager, Liam Brady reflected last night.

“We weren’t close in social terms, we were professional colleagues. Now I truly regret not having that game of golf we talked about or that I didn’t insist he got the opportunity to come to Arsenal for a Premier League game. I had told him he would be in the director’s box with me,” the Gunners legend revealed.

“He liked Arsenal, liked us as a football club. Not that he overtly was a fan of the team but I know he admired how the club conducts its business. That professionalism was something Bill could readily relate to.”