"Seamus Brady has come in too, a guy I have known for many years from Tottenham. He worked on the development side, on the analysis side. He works day to day on the training field with me as well."

That was Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood explaining his decision to appoint Seamus Brady as first team performance analyst and tonight we had the pleasure of welcoming the Meathman on Off The Ball to tell us about his role with the Premier League club and how he got to his current position.

After explaining how he got into football, he recalled how he began working with Sherwood when the ex-Tottenham head coach was in charge of that club's underage teams.

"He asked me would I be interested in coming over and doing analysis with him. I thought it would be good for my career. So I moved over and worked with him in the development side. I was working with him as he was developing the Harry Kanes, Ryan Masons and the Nabil Bentalebs, so I was learning as they were learning," said Brady, who made the step up to the Spurs first team with Sherwood when the latter replaced Andre Villas-Boas.

He also explained how he assists Sherwood with breaking down post-match performance as part of his remit.

"He's very much into the post-match stuff and what we can do instead of the other way round. My role is more post-match stuff and improving individuals and looking at clips," he said.

"We had some instance where the centre-back was clearing the ball and clearing it too high or too low, or hitting people so I keep an eye out for it and any patterns in training if that happens again. I would then show it to Tim and he'd look at that and show the player and put on some sessions for him to improve and maybe do ten clearances and that little bit of detail."