News about Liam Brady

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DOMINIC KING: The numbers and anecdotes that will boggle your mind will arrive in due course but first Sir Anthony McCoy wants to explain his apprehension. A landmark birthday is approaching - he'll be 50 next Saturday - and saying the number out loud leads to a grimace. In his head, he feels no different to the young man from Moneyglass in County Antrim who arrived on these shores aged 20 in August 1994, driving "my little Peugeot 205" into Toby Balding's yard burning with dreams and desire. McCoy could control almost everything in his life, from championship races to the kind of pain that would make most of us faint, but not the ageing process. Nor will he be able to shape events at the Tottenham Stadium this afternoon, something that will leave this Arsenal devotee tormented.

GRAEME SOUNESS: When it comes to determining how a manager would do at a new club, I put myself right back to the position of my first day of coaching, meeting the team I was going to lead. I know the players are sitting here, listening to me and thinking, 'Come on,' Come on,'" says the narrator. Describe how you're going to make us better as individuals and as a team.' Never in my wildest imagination have I been able to imagine Erik ten Hag sitting in the middle of a dressing room, causing a group of young men with extremely inflated perceptions of themselves that they are all going somewhere together. The majority of them, according to me, are having trouble with his body language, his demeanour, his soft Dutch accent, and his ill-fitting clothes. The players will have found out what he is and what he isn't from his very first team talk.

Brentford is one of the Celtic clubs monitoring Bosun Lawful. Since being pushed to the brink of the Celtic first team this season, Ireland youth international Lawal is driving attention. For the first time since being included in Celtic's squads for their winter training camps in Australia and Portugal, the 19 year-old, who can play centre back or in central midfield, made the bench for the first time on Saturday's 1-0 victory over Aberdeen.