Brian Yeo

Brian Yeo
Personnel
Surname	Brian George Yeo
birthday	April 12, 1944
place of birth	Worthing ,  England
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Portsmouth FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1961-1963	Portsmouth FC	0 00(0)
1963-1975	Gillingham FC	356 (136)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1975-1988	Folkestone FC
1979-1984	Canterbury City
1 Only league games are given.

Brian George Yeo (born April 12, 1944 in Worthing ) is a retired English football player . The striker scored 136 league goals for Gillingham FC between 1963 and 1975 , making it the club's record scorer.

Career

Brian Yeo went through the youth department of Portsmouth FC and signed his first professional contract there in 1961. Until his departure in 1963 Yeo remained without professional use for Portsmouth and was subsequently brought by Freddie Cox to the fourth division Gillingham FC . After he was mainly used in the reserve in the first two seasons, despite a goal on his league debut for Gillingham, he distinguished himself from the season 1965/66 for the club, which has now been promoted to the Third Division , as a regular goalscorer.

After relegation in the 1970/71 season, Yeo Gillingham helped with 31 goals in the 1973/74 season to rise again. His 31 goals this season were the best in all four seasons of the Football League, at the same time he set the club's season record from Ernie Morgan , who also scored 31 league goals in 1954/55. His performance this season earned him, together with full-back David Peach, an appointment to the PFA Team of the Year. Yeo was the second player after Brian Gibbs to score over 100 goals for the Gills in the Football League and is the club's record scorer with 136 league goals.

After retiring, Yeo ran a newspaper kiosk and coached the amateur clubs FC Folkestone (1975–1978) and Canterbury City (1979–1984).

literature

• Roger Triggs: The Men Who Made Gillingham Football Club . Tempus Publishing Ltd., Stroud 2001, ISBN 0-7524-2243-X , pp. 343 f .