Anyone who has seen RTE’s peerless football coverage will know that Liam Brady is prone to the occasional cathartic wobbler when Eamon Dunphy goes off on one. But this was on another level entirely: after his Brighton side had drawn miserably with Canvey Island in the FA Cup in 1995, Brady was in such a volcanic funk that he treated even the most mundane questions about football like they were as frivolous an enquiry as “What colour pants are you wearing today, Liam?” or “Dani Behr or Louise Nurding?” (Well it was 1995.) Brady couldn’t escape the interviews fast enough, and in one he reached a nadir by uttering the Brentish phrase, “If my granny had balls she’d be my grandad”, before marching off and giving the interviewer the lamest shove ever. Dunphy would have finished the job properly.”

Similarly, the Mirror’s Steve Anglesey compiles his list of “When Managers Go Mad: the top 10 foul-mouthed outbursts from football bosses.” “Fergie defends Veron Questions about a reported airport bust-up between Juan Sebastian Veron and Manchester United team-mates following their 2003 Champions League semi-final exit at Bayer Leverkusen didn’t go down well with Sir Alex Ferguson. “People are always going on about f****** Veron. You tell me, what’s wrong with Veron?” fumed Fergie. “What’s this thing about fights and all the rest of this s***? It’s absolute nonsense, you know it’s nonsense. Absolute lies. On you go. I’m no f****** talking to you. He’s a f****** great player. Yous are f****** idiots.”

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