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Phil Brown (footballer, born 1959)

Phil Brown
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Brown in 2005
Personal information
Full name Philip Brown
Date of birth (1959-05-30) 30 May 1959 (age 58)
Place of birth South Shields, England
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current team
Southend United (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1978–1985 Hartlepool United 217 (8)
1985–1988 Halifax Town 135 (19)
1988–1994 Bolton Wanderers 256 (14)
1994–1996 Blackpool 44 (5)
Total 652 (46)
Teams managed
1999 Bolton Wanderers (caretaker)
2005–2006 Derby County
2006–2010 Hull City
2011 Preston North End
2013– Southend United
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Philip Brown (born 30 May 1959) is an English former professional footballer, coach and manager. He is currently manager of League One club Southend United. As a player, Brown was a right-back who made over six hundred league appearances in an eighteen-year career, but never made it to the top flight. However, as a manager, he became the first to lead Hull City to the top division in their 104-year history, winning the Championship play-offs in 2008 after a 1–0 win against Bristol City at Wembley.

Since 2011, Brown has appeared as a match summariser on BBC Radio 5 Live as well as the station's sport panel show Fighting Talk, winning for the first time on 5 May 2012.

Born in South Shields, County Durham and educated in the North East, Brown started his career playing Sunday league football for South Shields side Red Duster in the South Shields Business Houses League, in the same team as Ray Dunbar and Bobby Davison, who went on to play for Derby County and Leeds United.

As a professional, Brown played at full back for many years with Hartlepool United, followed by a spell at Halifax Town (with fellow north-easterner Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter), In 1988, he moved to Bolton Wanderers, winning the Associate Members Cup in 1989.


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