Phil Brown (soccer player, 1959)

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Phil Brown
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Personnel
Surname Philip Brown
birthday May 30, 1959
place of birth South Shields ,  England
size 180 cm
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1978-1985 Hartlepool United 217 0(8)
1985-1988 Halifax Town 135 (19)
1988-1994 Bolton Wanderers 258 (14)
1994-1996 Blackpool FC 44 0(5)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005-2006 Derby County
2006-2010 Hull City
2011 Preston North End
2013-2018 Southend United
2018 Swindon Town
1 Only league games are given.

Philip "Phil" Brown (born May 30, 1959 in South Shields ) is a former English football player and current coach . His most successful time as a player was between 1988 and 1994 with the Bolton Wanderers . As a coach, he led Hull City in the 2007/08 season for the first time in the club's history in the English first division.

Player career

Phil Brown started his career as a player in 1978 with the English fourth division Hartlepool United and remained in this division when he moved to Halifax Town in 1985 . Even with his new club, he did not advance to the third division until 1988. The next stop for 29-year-old Phil Brown was the Bolton Wanderers , who had made a direct return to the Third Division in the preseason . After relegation in the 1988/89 season, the Wanderers failed in each of the following two years in the play-offs and thus missed promotion to the second division. This only succeeded after the restructuring of English professional football, when Bolton won the runner-up behind Stoke City in the 1992/93 season and rose to the second division now called First Division . After relegation in the First Division in 1993/94, Brown changed for the third and last time the club and signed with Blackpool FC . With his new team he played in the third division for two years before ending his playing career in 1996 at the age of 37.

Coaching career

After he had also worked as an assistant coach at Blackpool FC for the last two years of his playing career, he took over the assistant position at Bolton Wanderers from 1996. After coach Colin Todd was dismissed, he took over the post of head coach on an interim basis from September 22 to October 19, 1999. After the engagement of Sam Allardyce as the new coach, he took over the position of assistant coach again until 2005.

Derby County (2005-2006)

His first position as head coach was the second division Derby County , where he succeeded George Burley . After unsatisfactory performance in the course of the Football League Championship 2005/06 , Brown was released on January 30, 2006.

Hull City (2006-2010)

After he had previously worked in the club's coaching team, he followed Phil Parkinson on December 4, 2006 on an interim basis as head coach of the second division club Hull City . After good results he signed on January 4, 2007 a contract as head coach until the end of the season. After the close relegation in the Football League Championship 2006/07 Brown led Hull City in the 2007/08 season to third place behind the direct promoters West Bromwich Albion and Stoke City . In the subsequent first play-off round, the club switched off sixth Watford FC 2-2 and 4-2 and moved into the final against fourth Bristol City . In the final at Wembley , Hull won 1-0 against Bristol thanks to a goal from Dean Windass and moved into the first division for the first time in the club's history. In March 2008, Phil Brown was named Manager of the Month for the Championship. After a strong first half of the season in the Premier League in 2008/09 with victories over Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur , performance deteriorated significantly in the second half . Ultimately, Brown managed with his team in seventeenth with a point ahead of relegated Newcastle United relegation. During the first half of the season, Brown was named Premier League Coach of the Month in September 2008 . The club spent the season in the Premier League 2009/10 from the start in a relegation battle and ultimately rose again as the penultimate in the second year. Phil Brown was fired from the board on March 15, 2010.

Preston North End (2011)

On January 6, 2011 Brown took over as the successor to Darren Ferguson the coaching post at the relegation-threatened second division Preston North End . Even Brown did not turn around in Preston and rose at the end of the season with his new club as third from bottom of the Football League Championship 2010/11 . After the first half of the 2011/12 Football League One did not go as expected and Preston threatened to lose touch with the promotion places, Phil Brown was fired on December 14, 2011.

Southend United (2013-2018)

Brown took over the fourth division team Southend United in March 2013 and a little later played with the team in the final of the Football League Trophy , which was lost 2-0 to Crewe Alexandra . In 2015, the play-off winners were promoted to Football League One , and in the 2016/17 season they missed participation in the play-offs of the Football League Championship by one point . After a series of seven defeats from eight league games, he was released in January 2018.

Swindon Town (2018)

In March 2018 Brown took over the coaching position at the fourth division club Swindon Town . His contract with the club in 8th place was initially valid until the end of the season. In May 2018, his contract was extended by two years after the club had slipped to 17th place in the table after a series of just one win from eight league games, Brown was released together with his assistant coach Neil McDonald in November 2018.

titles and achievements

  • Promotion to the Premier League in 2007/08
  • Coach of the Month March 2008 (Second Division)
  • Trainer of the Month September 2008 (First League)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manager Brown given sack by Derby (BBC Sport)
  2. ↑ Hull unveil Brown as new manager (BBC Sport)
  3. ↑ Promotion to the Premier League (BBC Sport)
  4. ↑ Brown pays tribute to Hull side (BBC Sport)
  5. ↑ Hull boss Brown scoops accolade (BBC Sport)
  6. ↑ Brown wins manager of month prize (BBC Sport)
  7. ↑ Hull City relieve manager Phil Brown of his duties (BBC Sport)
  8. ↑ Phil Brown appointed Preston North End's new manager (BBC Sport)
  9. ↑ Table status at his dismissal (kicker)
  10. ↑ Manager Phil Brown is sacked by Preston North End (BBC Sport)
  11. ↑ bbc.com: Phil Brown: Southend United manager set to depart after almost five years (Jan. 17, 2018) , accessed January 21, 2018
  12. ↑ bbc.com: Phil Brown: Swindon appoint former Derby, Hull, Preston & Southend boss as manager (March 12, 2018)
  13. ↑ bbc.com: Phil Brown: Swindon manager agrees two-year deal with League Two club (May 10, 2018) , accessed November 12, 2018
  14. ↑ bbc.com: Phil Brown: Swindon Town sack manager after eight months in charge (Nov. 12, 2018) , accessed November 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Philip (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH South Shields