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Phil Brown
Phil Brown
Personal information
Full name Philip Brown
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s) Right-back
Team information
Current team
 Hull City (manager)

Philip "Phil" Brown (born 30 May 1959 in South Shields, County Durham, England) is an English former footballer, and the current manager of Hull City. He is also a cunt with a fondness for elaborate lies.

Playing career

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.[citation needed]

As a professional, Brown played at full back for many years with Hartlepool United and Halifax Town, with fellow north easterner Billy Ayre at both clubs and under him at the latter,[1] Bolton Wanderers and finally at Blackpool, managed by Sam Allardyce, in 1996.

Managerial career

Brown started taking his coaching badges while playing for Bolton, encouraged by Bruce Rioch.[2] His first managerial role was as assistant to Sam Allardyce at Blackpool.[3] He returned to Bolton Wanderers after his playing career ended and served as assistant manager to Colin Todd. Following Todd's departure in 1999, he took charge of the team as caretaker manager, winning four games out of five, until the appointment of Sam Allardyce. He then served as Allardyce's assistant for six years, before deciding to forge his own career as a manager.

Derby County

Brown's first full time senior management position was at Derby County, where he succeeded George Burley in June 2005. His time at Derby County proved to be unsuccessful and he was sacked just seven months into his tenure in January 2006, after a 6–1 league defeat against Coventry City, followed by a 3–1 defeat to Colchester in the FA Cup fourth round. Derby were in 19th place when Brown departed.[4]

Hull City

Brown was appointed as first-team coach at Hull City on 27 October 2006 under Phil Parkinson, and took over as joint caretaker manager alongside Colin Murphy on 4 December 2006 after Parkinson's sacking, with Hull in 22nd place in the Football League Championship. After taking Hull out of the relegation zone with three wins and a draw in the six matches he took charge of as caretaker, he was appointed as the permanent manager of the club on 4 January 2007.

Brown went on to lead The Tigers to Championship safety and the following season Hull City won promotion to the top level of English football for the first time in the club's 104-year history, by beating Bristol City at Wembley in the Championship play-off final on 24 May 2008. Brown described this as "the best day of my life, without a shadow of a doubt".[5]

Brown was rewarded with a new three-year contract, which he signed on the weekend of Hull City's first ever top-flight match, a 2–1 victory over Fulham on 16 August 2008.[6] On 28 September Brown managed Hull to a famous away victory over Arsenal by 2 goals to 1. It was only Arsenal's second ever defeat at the Emirates Stadium and was described by the Hull press as the greatest victory in the club's history. After a 1–0 victory at bottom of the table Tottenham Hotspur the following weekend, followed by a 3–0 away victory at West Bromwich Albion, on 10 October 2008, he was awarded Manager-of-the-Month for Hull's performance in September. On 26 December 2008, following a poor first half performance by Hull in a league match against Manchester City, Brown conducted his half-time team-talk on the pitch, in full view of the crowd and at the end of the pitch where the Hull supporters had been sitting.[7][8]

In November 2008 Brown was fined £1,000 and warned about his future conduct by the FA after Brown admitted a charge of improper conduct. The charged related to a game against Wigan in August which Hull lost 5–0.[9] Brown was again charged with misconduct for his behaviour in an FA Cup tie against Newcastle United in January. During the match Brown and Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear were both sent to the stands after a confrontation in which Brown verbally abused Newcastle's assistant manager Chris Hughton.[10] Brown admitted the charge and was subsequently fined £2,500 and warned as to his future conduct by the Football Association.[11]

On 17 March 2009, Brown claimed he saw Arsenal midfielder and captain Cesc Fàbregas spit at the feet of his assistant manager Brian Horton following Hull's 2–1 FA Cup defeat and elimination at the Emirates. He has stated he will not make a formal complaint to the FA, but that if Horton was to take the incident up with the FA, "Brian will receive the full support of the people of Hull, including my chairman. Brown also criticised Fàbregas' attire and questioned why he was allowed on the pitch after the game even though there is no rule against this.[12] Brown also claimed that Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger had refused to shake his hand at of their two previous meetings that season.[13] Both handshake claims have since been proven to be false[14][15][16] however the spitting incident is still being debated.

Statistics

Manager

Team Nat From To Record
G W D L Win %
Bolton Wanderers (caretaker) England 22 September 1999 19 October 1999 5 4 0 1 80.00
Derby County England 24 June 2005 30 January 2006 33 7 14 12 21.21
Hull City England 4 December 2006 Present 118 46 30 42 38.98
Total 156 57 44 55 36.54
As of 5 April 2009[17]

Honours

Manager

Promotions

Awards

Personal life

Brown is married to Karen and they have two children, Jamie and Sophie. His parents were Ronnie and Peggy, who passed on a love of football and Sunderland Football Club. At school, one of his teachers was long-distance runner Brendan Foster.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Preece tribute to Billy". Manchester Evening News. 20 April 2002. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
  2. ^ a b Howard, Steven (9 October 2008). "Brown: I worry it will go t*ts up". The Sun. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
  3. ^ "You're a disgrace Brown, says Burgess". Blackpool Gazette. 11 February 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
  4. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/d/derby_county/4664284.stm
  5. ^ "Managing the Next Step". City magazine (34). Hull City AFC: 20. 2008. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  6. ^ "Duffen's pride in Tigers". Hull Daily Mail. 18 August 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Brown makes exhibition of Hull". football365.com. 27 December 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
  8. ^ "Man City 5-1 Hull". BBC Sport. 26 December 2008. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
  9. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/hullcity/3483774/Hull-City-manager-Phil-Brown-fined-and-warned-over-future-conduct-by-FA-Football.html
  10. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/facup/4241783/Joe-Kinnear-and-Phil-Brown-see-red-as-Newcastle-exit-FA-Cup.html
  11. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hull_city/7952942.stm
  12. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/hull/article5935106.ece
  13. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/7950287.stm
  14. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/dailybung/5010560/Arsenals-Cesc-Fabregas-accused-of-spitting---Phil-Brown-has-a-spat-with-Arsene-Wenger.html
  15. ^ http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/27092008/8/photo/hull-city-s-manager-phil-brown-shakes-hands-arsenal-s.html
  16. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeX90B0qg_g&feature=channel_page
  17. ^ "Brown's managerial career". Racing Post. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
  18. ^ "Brown wins manager of month prize". BBC Sport. BBC. 10 October 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2008.

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