... second successive Cup-Winners' Cup final, the names of Liam Brady and Graham Rix, whose normally sure Ices stumbled in 1980. ing Valencia the trophy. At such times technical accomplishment can seem almost a handicap. And so it was on Thursday night in ...

... Arnim leads Senior Classic •FRIENDLY RIVALS Sampdoria's Des Walker challenges his former Nottingham Forest team-mate Nigel Clough during their Makita Trophy match at Elland Road. SOCCER RESULTS Greer/M Reid (Ford Sierra C,osworlt) 3h 08m 13s, 3 F ...

... COSTLY MISSES Remembering how costly misses then by Liam Brady and Graham Rix pruned and how they lost this summer's Makita on a similar shoot-out with Sampdoria it's no surprise that the Gunners boss had his players practising from the spot yesterday ...

... Winners' Cup final against Valencia when both Liam Brady and then Graham Rix missed in Brussels, and they had a catalogue of spot misses to lose this summer's Makita tournament to Sampdoria. Despite my 60-odd caps all anyone in Ireland remembers me for now ...

... exciting addition to the Premiership. The arrival of striker Enrico Chiesa from Sampdoria in the summer was the beginning of the end for Zola. Though he will have had Graham Rix's experience to fall back on, a manager will always do what he knows best. The ...

... zenith after a 1980 move from Arsenal to Juventus, whom he helped to consecutive league titles before going on to play for Sampdoria. Inter-Milan and Ascoli before returning to England to end his career with West Ham in 1990. Brady. captained Ireland's ...

... times scoring nine goals for his country. Signed for the world's top club Juventus in 1980 where he was dynamite, moving to Sampdoria two seasons later. Two seasons after that he was playing for Inter Milan, the year after that he had a disastrous spell with ...

... could under the main stand at not tolerate anything short of total com- Stamford Bridge, Gian- mitment. As a player with Sampdoria, he luca Vialli was conduct- would become furious when team-mates ing his usual post match slacked off in training, his ...

... Roma ahead. Then the Brazilian international righ winger Tita knocked in a hat-trick. Naples drew I-I assa) to Atalanta. Sampdoria thrashed poor. struggling Torino 5-1. which will probabb mean the end of a short spell as manager for Claudia Sala. pushed ...

... club. Howe restored a much needed discipline to the team and soon young players like Frank Stapleton, David O'Leary and Graham Rix joined Brady to form the nucleus of a first class team. Arsenal made successive FA Cup final appearances in 1978, '79 and 'BO ...

... an admirable playing career which took him from Arsenal to West Ham by way of Juventus, Turin, Internazionale Milan and Sampdoria of Genoa, Brady's footballing philosophy remained that of the classicist. Winning was taken for granted, it was how you won ...

... went in different directions. So, too, Brady lists Graham Rix, Sammy Nelson and Jennings amongst his close friends even though it is now ten years since that quartet played together for Arsenal. Rix was his mate in those days and their alliance told much ...