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Jon Brady – Wizard of Oz still has buzz

When Jon Brady left his friends and family behind in Australia at the age of 16, he never imagined he’d find himself playing in front of 300 people at Church Road.
LEARNING HIS TRADE: Jon Brady, in action for Rushden and Diamonds and, inset, as manager of Northampton Town PICTURE: Alamy

By Chris Dunlavy

When Jon Brady left his friends and family behind in Australia at the age of 16, he never imagined he’d find himself playing in front of 300 people at Church Road.
“No, I certainly didn’t,” laughs the 50-year-old former Northampton manager, who joined Hayes in 1994 and spent much of the next two decades playing his trade in the Non-League game.
“You’ve got to understand that, back home, I was playing in the National Youth League.
“I was only 15, but I’d be playing against everything up to Under-19s, plus four over-age senior players who were out of the team or coming back ...

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